Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
The fallout (and for the true Anglicans, the agony) of the California Supreme Court's decision to uphold trusts based on the Dennis Canon--and thus facilitate the retention of parish property by the Diocese of Los Angeles and TEC--has generated a lot of comment, some of which has linked back to this site (thanks!) One of …
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Tomorrow the California Supreme Court will render its decision on a series of cases regarding the secession of several parishes from TEC. Needless to say, it's a nail-biter for everyone. Anglican Cumudgeon has been covering this saga in detail (he doesn't do it any other way) but what interested me was a comment from the …
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Kevin Walker had an excellent post on The Language of Salvation, which dealt with a passage from N.T. Wright. His response to my comments was as follows: Thanks for commenting Don. I just started reading N.T. Wright, and I'm enjoying his work. My only beef is, like you said in your comment, that he almost …
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It's been a while, but the Anglican Calendar Script--a popular feature of the site--has been updated. Two changes have been made: A bug which prevented the correct reporting of the First Sunday in Christmas has been fixed. The whole series of celebrations around the turn of the year (Christmas, Circumcision, Epiphany) is the trickiest part …
From the 1662 Book of Common Prayer: O LORD, raise up (we pray thee) thy power, and come among us, and with great might succour us; that whereas, through our sins and wickedness, we are sore let and hindered in running the race that is set before us, thy bountiful grace and mercy may speedily …
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Anglicans Online notes that the Third Sunday in Advent is "Gaudete Sunday."Â If they want to bring it alive, one way is to feature Steeleye Span's (the 1970's British folk group that brought that genre of music alive to so many of us) version of the ancient Latin hymn, as you can see it below. …
From the 1662 Book of Common Prayer: O LORD Jesu Christ, who at thy first coming didst send thy messenger to prepare thy way before thee; Grant that the ministers and stewards of thy mysteries may likewise so prepare and make ready thy way, by turning the hearts of the disobedient to the wisdom of …
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From the 1662 Book of Common Prayer: BLESSED Lord, who hast caused all holy Scriptures to be written for our learning; Grant that we may in such wise hear them, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them, that by patience and comfort of thy holy Word, we may embrace, and ever hold fast, the blessed …
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Fellow Palm Beacher George Conger's detailed analysis of the recognition process is as good of an opportunity as any to make some comments on this complicated process. In principle, I think it's a great idea. North American Anglicans deserve better than the warmed-over humanism they've been getting out of TEC and ACoC for the last …
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From the 1662 Book of Common Prayer: ALMIGHTY God, give us grace that we may cast away the works of darkness, and put upon us the armour of light, now in the time of this mortal life in which thy Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility; that in the last day, …
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Positive Infinity 