https://northamanglican.com/beating-the-bounds-of-anglican-eucharistic-doctrine-commentary-on-browne-article-xxviii/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=beating-the-bounds-of-anglican-eucharistic-doctrine-commentary-on-browne-article-xxviii This is a long exposition of Anglican Eucharistic doctrine that mostly succeeds in making it look complicated. I thought about doing a "blow by blow" on this, but I will restrict myself to referring my readers to my 2020 article on the subject, Overcomplicating Anglican Eucharistic Theology. https://bossuetproject.wordpress.com/2020/10/19/overcomplicating-anglican-eucharistic-theology/?page_id=14108
Connecting the Dots on Bill Ayers and the Democrats
In the wake of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s decision to suspend his campaign and endorse Donald Trump for President, his siblings issued the above statement. Evidently they in general and Chris Kennedy in particular have forgotten a few things. In 2010 Chris was involved in getting Bill Ayers denied emeritus status at the University of …
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The “Last Supper” Has a Few Admirers Out There
In view of the disgusting opening ceremonies at the recent opening of the 2024 Olympics in Paris, it's worth reminded people that there are some--probably many--who have admired this work even if they're not sympathetic with its message. Two of those were Iranian friends of mine, which I talk about in my post The Last …
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Those Dreadful Evangelicals: My Response to “Methodists At 180 Feet Below: A Short Reflection On Showmanship”
Tyler Hummel's piece in the North American Anglican is one of those things that surfaces from time to time in the Anglican/Episcopal World. It has the feel of the Palm Beach Old Guard's worst nightmare: the dread of tasteless nouveaux riches making a statement and getting away with it. As someone who started out in …
The World of Late Antiquity by Peter Brown (1971 2nd edition 1989)
Looking at the “Whole Person”: Yesterday it was the Ivy League, Now It’s the State Department
Our Foreign Service is changing the rules: The Foreign Service – the US Department of State’s on-ramp for career diplomats – is watering down its application process with a change that critics say could have troubling implications for national security.“I worry that we’ll be sending good community activists over to Baghdad and Beirut who don’t …
Penitential Rite, from the 1928 Book of Common Prayer
It's needed now: One thing that always struck me about this and so many other penitential rites in the Anglican liturgy (like this one) is that God always is ready to forgive and have us back. That's missing in many of the moral systems that are being imposed on us these days.
Those Needy Pentecostals
One of the things I heard frequently as a NOM (Novus Ordo Missae, as opposed to a Trad or Rad Trad) Catholic was the phrase "your needy people." This was generally rolled out when same needy people were about to "come to the table" (which they really didn't.) And yet...somehow, the whole concept of "needy …
George Conger for Bishop?
That's what's on the street: Enter George Conger, the ambitious evangelical cleric from Central Florida. Is he qualified? Eminently so. He is by far away the most credentialed of all the candidates with a good track record in his own diocese. However, there is no love lost between Conger and his bishop, Greg Brewer, who …
Two Defeats, Two National Nervous Breakdowns
A few years back I did a review of Andreas Killen's 1973 Nervous Breakdown. It's hard to argue against the fact that what we went through in the late 1960's and early 1970's was in fact a national nervous breakdown. Two years later, of course, came the fall of Saigon and the real end of …
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Positive Infinity 