Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
Free To Fly (Dovetail DOVE 16) 1975 Their first album is a lovely group of songs, most of which are drawn from the Scriptures. The cover suggests the album's content: soaring and ethereal. But it's also well executed, with superb musicianship. Free to Fly is one of the best treasures from 1970's British Jesus Music. …
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It's hard to think of a group that defines 1970's Christian folk/coffee-house music as much as this one, which morphed into The Fisherfolk. The group had its start in 1969 as the resident singing group of The Way In, a Christian coffee-house in the Allen Landing area of Houston, Texas. The Way In was, in …
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Just when you think you've seen everything in the Anglican Revolt, we have this: There is a new twist in property settlements that forces fleeing orthodox parishes that wish to disaffiliate from the Episcopal Church over faith and morals. They can keep their properties in a lease back arrangement, but the church cannot affiliate with …
The Epistle for the Fifth Sunday in Epiphany (which we don't always get to, but this year Easter is very late) is as follows: Therefore, as God’s People, consecrated and dear to him, clothe yourselves with tenderness of heart, kindliness, humility, gentleness, forbearance; Bearing with one another, and, when there is any ground for complaint, …
Disclaimer: in posting this, I feel like Sarah Hey at StandFirm did when she posted this gem: "I'm sorry. I was unable to resist." So with that out of the way we come to this, from the Shiny Sheet: The 33rd annual Boar’s Head will have two performances at 2:30 and 4:30 p.m. Sunday at …
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Westminster Cathedral sees a mass defection from the Church of England: Up to 50 Anglican clergy, some of whom oppose women bishops, could convert to Catholicism by Easter under a new scheme approved by the Pope. The first of the converts, including three former Anglican bishops, two of their wives, and three former Anglican nuns, …
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Cloud The Resting Place (Dove 62, 1978) Cloud was the large (>10) British folk group whose main claim to fame was its ethereal praise and worship music. The Resting Place continues in that tradition, up to Cloud's excellent tradition of musicianship and composition as well. Cloud was connected with the famous Anglican church Holy Trinity …
Needless to say, the Wiccans are paying attention to the fact that this year is the first since 1554 that we have had a winter solstice and lunar eclipse at the same time: "It's a ritual of transformation from darkness into light," says Nicole Cooper, a high priestess at Toronto's Wiccan Church of Canada. "It's …
The recent vandalism of Glastonbury's Holy Thorn Tree at Christmastime has got me thinking about some strange connections which seem to be manifesting themselves. We always like to think that we know how things work, but that isn't always the case. And, as anyone involved in science and technology will tell you, sometimes recognising the …
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This fascinating video from the Washington Post by Episcopal Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts-Schori opens with this comment: ...and at some point it became necessary to shift approach and to say: "If you're going to stay as a leader in this organization, you have to be engaged, even if you don't like this decision over here. …
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