Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
This is one in a series from Bossuet’s Elevations on the Mysteries. The previous post is here. More information on the Bossuet Project is here. "There was a great war in heaven, Michael and his angels against the dragon and his angels: the dragon and his angels fought, and their strength failed them," and they …
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They're getting nervous over at the National Cathedral: The Episcopal cathedral is garnering criticism from some Episcopalians – including within the Episcopal Diocese of Washington – for hosting a regular interfaith prayer service as part of festivities marking the U.S. Presidential Inauguration, and for agreeing to send its boys choir to perform at the Inauguration …
In the middle of a post on her "Rip van Winkle" return to Seattle, Julia Duin makes this observation about growing up Episcopalian: In high school, we had just moved to Seattle from Maryland, where there was so much social ferment. It even affected the Episcopal church we attended in Severna Park, which was close …
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Syracuse University leads the way: Syracuse University wants student to combat hate and report bias incidents to the administration when they encounter them on campus. Given how broadly the university defines bias, it's surprising that students have time for anything else. According to Syracuse, bias involves "telling jokes," "excluding or avoiding others," using the phrase …
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Everything can change, but God: "Nothing is changeless (by itself) among its saints, and the heavens are not clean in his presence. Those he had created to serve have not been stable, and he has found impurity and depravity in his angels.” (Job 4:18, 15:15) A friend of Job said this, and it was not …
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This is the first in a series from Bossuet’s Elevations on the Mysteries. More information on the Bossuet Project is here. God, who is a pure spirit, wanted to create pure spirits like him, who like him live in intelligence and love, who know and love him as he knows and loves himself, who like …
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The death of Fr. Michael Scanlan, the University of Steubenville's long-time leader, has saddened many in the conservative Catholic world, if not refugees from covenant communities. It's an event that may not resonate with the majority of the Christian world, but for those of us with any involvement with the University of Steubenville, it's worth …
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One of the more baleful pieces that has recently appeared in the "Old Grey Lady" (and there are many) is their article on Bart Campolo and his decamping from Christianity to atheism. I am sure that some secular progressives have toasted each other (probably multiple times, with the predictable result for them) on this catch. …
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What a "college man" used to look like, in this case my grandfather, C.H. Warrington, who is at the right. He started out at the University of Illinois but ended up at Lehigh, where he graduated with a Civil Engineering degree in 1912. (It was another eighty-five years before a member of the family would …
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Something to consider, from Philo Judaeus, On the Unchangeableness of God XI: And this is what follows: "I will destroy," says God, " the man whom I have made from off the face of the earth, from man to beast, from creeping things to the fowls of the air, because I have considered and repent …
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