Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
In a recent post by the North American Anglican entitled "The Drama of Confession," the author goes into a long Anglican description of the importance and benefits of confession, with emphasis (justified) on the Anglican "general confessions" that we see in traditional Anglican prayer books. For all of the detail he goes into, he misses …
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As the Marquis de Sade (yes, that Marquis de Sade) had it at the Bastille before he was removed shortly before it was stormed and demolished. From Simon Schama's Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution: If ever there was a justification for the Bastille, it was the Marquis de Sade. But if the crimes …
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The ACNA has yet another alleged sex abuser on their hands. as you can see above, His start in life is interesting, to say the least: Gough grew up in Palm Beach County. His mother died when he was young and his father worked 18-hour days. Gough, the grandson of wealthy Palm Beach socialites, began …
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As is probably the case with most website/blog maintainers, the statistics get checked on a fairly regular basis. One of the driest pages on the site (although some of you will argue there are drier) is Terms and Conditions of this Website, Privacy Policy and Information About Endorsements. It's one of those things you just about …
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That's probably not how he would characterise his absence from the race to become Episcopal Bishop of Central Florida, but that's what it amounts to: It is ironic that George Conger, a Central Florida rector who attempted to become the Bishop of Springfield is not a candidate. I haven't listened to Anglicans Unscripted in a …
Anyone who has done any work with print is familiar with the CMYK (Cyan/Magenta/Yellow/BlacK) colour scheme. (Most web images are done with the RGB (Red/Green/Blue) scheme.) In either case the idea is that, by using a few colours and mixing them properly, one could produce the effect of many colours, thus making it possible to […]When …
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My parents divorced in the late 1970's. That was back in the day before our tax code made inter-spousal transfers free of estate or gift taxes, so it was a mess. (Yeah, there was such time...) After it was done, she dated an English insurance agent. The relationship never got very far, although he found …
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The last in our series of bulletins from Bethesda-by-the-Sea Episcopal Church is this one, from 1966. Bethesda Bulletin for the Fourth Sunday in Lent 1966 As usual, notes are in order: The Rev. Joseph N. Barnett was an elderly Episcopal minister who assisted at service. One time he observed that "Sitting is the privilege of …
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In another installment of this series of "Bulletins from Bethesda," here is the First Sunday in Lent, 1967. There are quite a few interesting observations to be made about this bulletin: As was the case at the time, the Holy Communion was celebrated consistently at 0800. This was the appointed (second) Sunday for the Holy …
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The thirteen year-old was me, and I wrote this for the Palm Beach Day School's student newspaper the Portfolio Flyer, Volume II Issue X dated 18 December 1968: 1,972 years in the past, in a little Israeli town called Bethlehem, probably one of the most important events in the history of the world occurred. Mary …
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