Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
Here in the Church of God we're in a explosive situation over one of our ministers criticising another minister/church institution employee over his receiving communion at his wife's Episcopal church. There are many issues surrounding this, but as someone who has been in both churches in my lifetime, there's one thing that I'd like to focus …
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https://northamanglican.com/the-place-of-scripture-in-the-acna/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-place-of-scripture-in-the-acna I found this piece intriguing, and have several observations. In my interaction with Anglicans and Episcopalians on social media, I find myself the "last man standing" in terms of having a living memory of how it was done in the Episcopal Church (let along having been baptised an Episcopalian) before the church's version of …
There's a great deal of publicity surrounding Steamboat Willie entering the public domain this year. But for Anglican/Episcopal veterans of the "Old High Church" another public domain entry may be significant: Healey Willan's Second Communion Service, featured in the 1940 Hymnal. You can see it below, from this site: This was beloved back in the day, and …
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It’s a New Year, and the beginning of another year when the “smart set” (to use an old expression) goes after Evangelical Christianity. They even have a movie waiting in the wings as we gear up for yet another grueling Presidential election year. The spectre of Evangelical Churches “taking America back for God” with all …
The third and final session of the Advent series at the North Cleveland Church of God, on 13 December 2023. https://youtu.be/dbzf8XG03Vo The slide presentation for this is here. This is a preview/overview of the rest of the liturgical year, including the Christmas and Epiphany seasons, the lead-up to Lent, Lent itself, Holy Week (where we …
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The second in a series of three sessions of an Advent series given at the North Cleveland Church of God on 6 December 2023. https://youtu.be/KYH4PHY1Jk0 The slide presentation is here. In this session some time will be devoted to the customs surrounding Advent, but much of this session will look at the Biblical events immediately …
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The first in a series of three sessions of an Advent series given at the North Cleveland Church of God on 29 November 2023. https://youtu.be/Fp1QNKA9FOU The slide presentation for this session is here. In this session the origins of Advent are discussed, not necessarily from a historical standpoint, but from a theological and Biblical standpoint, …
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Back in my prog days, one of my favourite groups was Emerson Lake and Palmer. For my Anglican/Episcopal readers, this was the group that, while Episcopal churches fought over the prayer book and the organ committee was in gridlock over the blasphemous suggestion that the church buy an Allen, introduced a new generation to the …
Matt Broomfield's sad piece about British Charismatic preacher Mike Pilavachi has many issues which need to be unpacked. I won't get to them all, but let's start with this: Anglicans don't need to be smug about this for the following reasons: Pilavachi is in fact an Anglican minister; Broomfield notes this and addresses him as …
In keeping with his earlier treatment of Article X and Article XVI, Browne holds that Article XVII is neither Calvinist nor Arminian, although, as mentioned previously, he suggests the Article allows for both positions: “It seems worthy of consideration, whether the Article was not designedly drawn up in guarded and general terms, on purpose to… …
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