Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
The whole back and forth about Who can expel The Episcopal Church from the Anglican Communion reminds me of the old British car, i.e., those products of that rickety chandelier called British Leyland (MG, Triumph, Rover, Jaguar, Austin, Morris and Wolseley) in the 1960's and 1970's. When these cars ran, they were the best, but …
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The Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh conducted a sober leadership retreat to consider the future of the diocese. Now we know for sure that some Episcopalians are very serious about their current situation. To sober up for any reason is a major event for Episcopalians. My second year Latin teacher--an Episcopal priest in an Episcopal school--was …
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David Trimble's analysis of Bishop/Attorney Stacy Sauls' role and possible analysis in the Episcopal Church's legal options re its property is a very sensible one. Much of what's written about this reflects spiritual angst and a naive view of the legal system. While spiritual angst is understandable, when the legal system gets involved it's necessary …
Gene Robinson tells us that It is painful to be treated as less than human. He's right. But that's why I have trouble with self-righteous groups of people with above average income levels. Experience is a hard teacher.
Brad Drell has opened an interesting topic of discussion in Minding The Generation Gap In The Anglican Blogosphere. But two comments are in order. I've always thought that the break between the Boomers and Generation X was in 1965. But dividing lines like this are a tricky business, and there are "variations on a theme" …
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Peter Akinola's recapitulation of the running battle in the Anglican Communion (A Most Agonizing Journey towards Lambeth 2008, also here) is as good of a summary as one could want. One of the titles, however, is intriguing: "All journeys must end someday." We've been conditioned to think that the journey itself is the central experience …
Recently I received the following email from one of our visitors: I am writing about the Anglican Calendar php program on this website. Firstly, thank you so much for creating it and sharing it! It is fantastic! I am developing a website for my 1928 bcp church, and wanted something to put a bit of …
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Those of you who follow "Spengler" on Asia Times Online are familiar with his argument coupling the birthrate with religious belief and the survival of a society. (An interesting correlation of this from an Episcopalian standpoint can be found here.) It looks like he's got some competition from the West Coast in the form of …
Peter Toon's piece on Why is The 1662 Book of Common Prayer so popular all of a sudden (especially relative to its American 1928 counterpart) agrees with the statistics we get on this site. Positive Infinity offers both the 1662 and 1928 books for free download. The inclusion of the 1662 book in 2004 (in …
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The whole concept of using the Morning Prayer service from the Book of Common Prayer (as suggested by the Reformed Catholic blog) is an intriguing one. A few comments are in order: The whole traditional Anglican liturgy is geared towards public celebration, as opposed to the "private" nature of many late Middle Ages Masses. So …
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