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My Impressions of the Lee University Revival

My last post Lee University’s Statement About the “Revival” On Its Campus has garnered a good deal of interest. Since that gathering is "just around the corner" and my situation in the Church of God and Lee is strong, last evening my wife and I ascended up to the chapel on campus and experienced what is …

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Lee University’s Statement About the “Revival” On Its Campus

Following is a statement sent to Lee University's friends about what's going on at the Chapel from its President, Dr. Mark Walker. I put "revival" in quotes because the administration hasn't definitely characterised it as such. It is reproduced without change. Hello Lee Family, You may have heard that Lee University is having revival. I …

Britain’s crisis of unbelief – New Statesman — Ɗϱϲάϝ ʗάեհṏɭΐϲ’s Commonplace Book

Clip source: Britain’s crisis of unbelief - New Statesman Britain’s crisis of unbeliefIn a nation that binds spiritual and temporal power, will the end of the old metaphysical order threaten the state itself? By Madoc CairnsPhoto by Robert Greshoff / millennium images, uk In the autumn of 1969, during the darkest days of the conflict… Britain’s …

Why Anyone Thought the Church of England Would Go Another Way is a Mystery

They didn't: Church of England priests will be permitted to bless the civil marriages of same-sex couples in a profound shift in the church's stance on homosexuality after a historic vote by its governing body. The first blessings for gay couples could happen this summer. Individual churches will be encouraged to state clearly whether they …

Canon Law and the Ecclesiastical Leviathan — The North American Anglican

In his classic 1987 book Crisis and Leviathan, economic historian Robert Higgs convincingly argued that the vast growth in the size and scope of the American government over the course of the twentieth century was due primarily to government actions taken in response to national emergencies. Higgs identifies critical events such as the Great Depression,… Canon …

The World of Late Antiquity by Peter Brown (1971 2nd edition 1989)

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Peter Brown

Peter Brown has been a pioneer of the study of the late Roman / Early Medieval world for 50 years.

His books in the 1960s and 70s are credited with bringing a new coherence to the study of the period, and a new attitude which saw it not as a story of inevitable decline and fall, but as a period of surprising vigour and innovation – as a much more complex, rich and fascinating period than had previously been thought.

Brown helped to bury the term ‘Dark Ages’ – which is now generally deprecated – and bring about the recategorising of the period as the ‘Early Middle Ages’, now generally defined as 500 to 1000 AD.

The World of Late Antiquity was published in 1971 as an extended essay or meditation on the earlier part of this period, from roughly 250 to 750 AD. It was published by…

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Lost and found: a 1964 interview with Georges Lemaitre, the Father of the Big Bang theory — Science meets Faith

The Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroeporganisatie (VRT), the national public-service broadcaster for the Flemish Community of Belgium, has found in its archives an interview with Georges Lemaître that was thought to be lost. The cosmologist from Leuven was the founder of the big bang theory in the 1920s and 1930s. He was interviewed about it in […] …

On Specialisation and Mathematics

From R.G. Manley's Waveform Analysis, this observation, at the start: At a not very remote period in the past, a university education in Natural Philosophy, together with a small amount of private reading, enabled a man to claim fairly the he knew the whole of science, so far as it was at that time revealed. …

Someone Else Figures Out When Church is Pointless

In this interesting article by the Rev. Ben Crosby, he asks two questions as the starting point of why churches are in decline and if it really matters: Specifically, I believe that our conversations about church decline would be much more clarifying if we began by answering the following questions: 1. Do we think that …

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