Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
Dr. Peter Toon's long discussion of the organisation of various churches and their relationships to holding their property is a great idea but, as is the case with many things about our legal system, is also easier said than done. He is correct that congregational churches (Baptists, Assemblies of God, etc.) tend to have their …
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It's impossible to resist making some comments about Responses Offered by the Executive Board and Clergy and Lay Deputations to General Convention of the Diocese of Southeast Florida to Questions contained in A Short Study Guide to Aid the Episcopal Church in Responding to the Draft Anglican Covenant as Prepared by the Covenant Design Group, …
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In the midst of everything else going on here, I received an interesting comment on my piece Charismatic Anglicans: The Missing Link: I used to be a Lutheran who was sort of involved with the charismatic movement before coming to Canada. I became very discouraged with my church. I recently joined an Anglican Church in …
While maintaining this blog (along with everything else,) I've had the chance lately to visit (and sometimes comment on) Titusonenine, the blog of the Canon Theologian of the Diocese of South Carolina, Kendall Harmon. This is a major Anglican blog, some would say the best. As with many things on the Web, encountering this has …
While making this blog a stench in the nostrils of many at TitusOneNine, I'm pleased to announce a new blog worth looking at: Sanctifusion. With the things that divide Christians into this "tradition" and that, it's good to see something that blurs some of our boundaries. Sanctifusion does that. Take a look.
Table of Contents and Overview for At the Inlet | Information and ordering instructions for all of our fiction Note: this part of At the Inlet is dedicated to the memory of Elizabeth C. "Betty" Montgomery, long time dance teacher in Palm Beach, for reasons that will be obvious. The first Sunday of the month …
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This weekend we celebrate the 400th anniversary of the landing at Cape Henry, the first enduring landfall of English settlers in the New World. On 29 April 1607, a group from the Virginia Company landed and, led by their Anglican chaplain Robert Hunt, prayed for the establishment and propagation of the Christian religion in the …
Holy Week was magnificent. You, the Rector of an Anglican church, know it. The choir was heavenly. The altar guild outdid themselves again. Not a revisionist in sight. Your sermon even ended with more than half of the congregation awake! Your golf game on Easter Monday with the Senior Warden only crowned the whole experience. …
Today many of the millions of Authorised (King James) Bibles printed and distributed lack the preface of the translators to the most important translation of God's Word in the English language. We present it here for the following reasons: It shows clearly that the Authorised Version is a product of the Church of England, which …
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The many disparaging remarks by Anglicans/Episcopalians on both sides about Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams' "sabbatical" are largely unjustified. Williams has made his share of mistakes, but the chasm between the orthodox and revisionists in the Anglican Communion is probably unbridgeable. It is reminiscent of a remark made about the Revolutions of 1848 that equally …
