Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
It is a procession that’s been on the road ever since Jesus’ resurrection. Traffic Report Tim Fountain is an old friend going back to the original Stand Firm in Faith days. He has a special needs child, which quite a few of my present church people deal with. We both come from places where things …
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Even the current Occupant in the Vatican has had enough: The embattled Bishop Rick Stika will be asked by Vatican officials to resign as Bishop of Knoxville, after more than two years of scandal over the bishop’s leadership of his eastern Tennessee diocese. According to sources close to the Vatican’s Dicastery for Bishops, Pope Francis …
In recent times, there has been a trend in the popular media towards viewing past events and people through the prism of present-day attitudes. This trend is manifested in attempts to ‘cancel’ the past, including by silencing various discussions, banning books, tearing down statues and so on. In historical and literary analysis, presentism is a […] …
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Reformation Anglicanism: Essays on Edwardian Evangelicalism. Edited by Mark Earngey and Stephen Tong. London, UK: The Latimer Trust, 2023. 260 pp. $11.50 (paper). In some ways, and for some people, the Edwardian period of the English Reformation is fertile ground for speculations about what could have been. 1,144 more words Book Review: “Reformation Anglicanism: Essays on …
Today is the anniversary of the landing at Cape Henry. It's an event especially feted by the Christian Broadcasting Network and Regent University, as can be seen in this video: https://youtu.be/NQ6Mf_kF2fM Five years after the landing, William Strachey produced the document For The Colony in Virginia BRITANNIA, Laws Divine , Moral and Martial, etc.. There's …
Consult any pre-21st century English or American Prayer Book and you will find in the Nicene Creed that the Holy Spirit proceeds “from the Father and the Son.”[1] The phrase “and the Son” is a translation of the Latin term Filioque, with the opening words of Article V—“The Holy Ghost, proceeding from the Father and… The …
One of the ideas that's making the rounds these days in the Anglican/Episcopal world is an idea of an Anglican boarding school for boys. Probably the most ambitious of these projects is St. Dunstan's, which is in the planning stage. Before too many Anglicans part company with their hard-earned (or inherited) dollars for this project, …
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William Beveridge in his Private Thoughts on Religion, and Church Catechism Explained wrote, “This, therefore, being the great cause of that shameful decay of the Christian religion that is so visible among us, we can never expect to see it repaired, unless the great duty of catechising be revived….”[1] He adds that parents play the… Susanna …
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Well, not quite, but... The Church of God Executive Committee was joined by members of the International Executive Council and employees of the International Offices on Tuesday, April 18, 2023, for a ceremonial “note burning,” signifying the retirement of debt on the International Offices. Two weeks earlier, on April 5, 2023, Secretary General Gary Lewis …
As Twitter is finding out with state-funded media like the CBC and NPR: The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) announced it will quit posting content on Elon Musk-owned Twitter, joining other U.S.-based media outlets. “Our journalism is impartial and independent. To suggest otherwise is untrue. That is why we are pausing our activities on @Twitter,” CBC wrote …
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