Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
Sometimes, as a blogger, you come up with what you think is a great idea only to have doubts about it later. Consider this posting: One thing that the various groups, such as CANA, AMiA, and the like, could be working on is a new prayer book for themselves. We can hear the sigh of …
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It seems that the Archbishop of Canterbury has a talent for leaving people who just might help solve problems hanging out to dry, as he blithely ignores the existence of "old earth creationism" in the debate over evolution: Dr Rowan Williams, said "Neo Darwinism and Creationist science deserve each other. Creationism is a version of …
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Lisa Severine Noland's article about the perils of going to Lambeth this summer has galvanised me to draft the letter I'd write if I were an Anglican primate in a predominantly "reasserter" province: Esteemed ++Rowan Williams! It is with the deepest regret that I find myself compelled to write this letter to you. At this …
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One frequent contributor to Virtue Online is Mike McManus, whose best known efforts are at saving marriages. He was featured on the 7 March 2008 700 Club, and that segment is this week's (delayed) podcast.
Honor Moore's article in the New Yorker about her father, the Rt. Rev. Paul Moore, Episcopal Bishop of New York, and the discovery that he was homosexual, has generated quite a buzz in Anglican/Episcopal blogs and websites (such as this and this.) But in reading the piece, it's hard for me to understand what the …
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Prince Harry doesn't care much for the centrepiece of his realm: But Harry, third in line to the British crown, didn't seem overly happy with his homeland's press, who have given generous coverage in recent years to his partying escapades in the nightclubs of London and elsewhere. "I don't want to sit around in Windsor," …
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Back in the fall, in response to my post St. Jerome's Idea of Bishops and Presbyters, Abu Daoud asked me the following: I am wondering how you square Jerome's idea with the much earlier statements by Ignatius of Antioch regarding the centrality of the bishop in the ministry of the church (ie, do nothing without …
Although the main celebration today is the Third Sunday in Lent, it's also the Feast of St. Matthias, the apostle chosen to replace Judas. The Collect for the feast is especially relevant in view of the current state of the Anglican Communion: Almighty God, who into the place of the traitor Judas didst choose thy …
In all of the furor over Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams' remarks on Shar'ia law in the UK, one backwash many people in the West forget is the impact it will have on Christian-Muslim relations in places such as Nigeria. As David Virtue points out in his most recent newsletter: Most British pundits viewed Williams' …
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Daniel Finkelstein's post on the ten worst mistakes in British history is one of the most fascinating things I've seen on the Web in some time. But he (and, unless I've overlooked something, all but one of his respondents) have overlooked a big one: Vortigern's bright idea of bringing the Saxons over to defend post-Roman …
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