Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
The Vatican is trying to force Anglicans' hand on the subject of which way they need to go: The Vatican has said that the time has come for the Anglican Church to choose between Protestantism and the ancient churches of Rome and Orthodoxy. Speaking on the day that the Archbishop of Canterbury met Benedict XVI …
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From the opening sentences from the 1928 Book of Common Prayer, the one for the Ascension season: Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God...Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to …
The fuss surrounding the "Manchester Report" on how to achieve women bishops in the Church of England overlooks a significant weakness in the argument against them: who really is the head of the Church of England? Everybody knows the answer to that question (well, almost:) the Queen, who is the "Lady and Governor" of the …
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Archbishop Greg Venables of the Southern Cone gave a difficult commissioning address to those in the Anglican Network in Canada, departing as they are from their original church: God is presenting us with an opportunity to say to an old and sad world with all its sense of nowhere to go, we have got to …
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The Chinese are discovering what many in the U.S. have known for a long time: that much of the "mainstream" media is biased, and especially CNN, which G. Gordon Liddy humourously referred to one time as "Certainly Not Neutral." This has been brought home to them by the remarks of Jack Cafferty. Some Chinese have …
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Catherine Tremper has brought up some interesting (and well documented) points about my post Why People Shouldn't Become Orthodox. So let me make some response, citing her first: Taking the long view, Avvakum wasn’t very representative of Orthodoxy. In a long ago Russian history class I was told that early Orthodoxy in Russia focussed on …
Recently received the following response from my post Is Evangelism unAnglican?: I just discovered your blog this afternoon. Haven't explored it much yet, but I feel comfortable here already. Currently, I remain a traditional Anglican (Episcopal Missionary Church) who came to Canterbury by way of Constantinople (altough brought up as a vaguely Protestant Army brat). …
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In the early 1980's, I visited Hong Kong while on the way back from the third and last in a series of business trips to China. While reading the South China Morning Post, I noted that an Anglican church was conducting a street service at the Star Ferry terminal on the Kowloon side. I was …
I recently got myself into a debate I never thought I would: the veneration of icons. It seems that Abu Daoud got himself into a dispute with one JMW over the veneration/worhsip of icons. So he threw it out to the rest of us for discussion. One of Abu Daoud's respondents wondered why a dialogue …
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Every now and then, I get inquires (especially from Anglicans) on whether they should become Orthodox. My usual response is to refer them to this, the Life of the Archpriest Avvakum by Himself. I've missed it on this one: the Mystificator from Romania has 275 reasons why one shouldn't become Orthodox. The remaining time, amounting …
Positive Infinity 