Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
The summer before I graduated from prep school, we left Palm Beach. My mother had had back surgery and we needed to live in a single level house. We didn't move far, just to Boynton Beach, about 50 km down the road. A New Church...A New Parish I had started attending the Catholic church in …
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The Episcopal Church House of Bishop's passage of Resolution D025--affirming gay and lesbian people in all parts of the life of the church, including all levels of ministry--is both a tragedy and a gift, depending on how you look at it. As it represents the final repudiation of the Christian sexual ethic, it's a tragedy. …
Many of you wonder why I, now holed up in a Pentecostal church, take so much interest in the Anglican/Episcopal world. Much of that answer is here, but there's the opposite question: with that interest, why did you leave the Episcopal Church to start with? One lesson from teaching is that a worked example is …
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Episcopal Presiding Bishop Katherine Jefferts Schori fires a shot across the bow at the Church of England (HT bb): She urged Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams to remember the "pain of many Episcopalians in several places of being shut out of their traditional worship spaces, and the broken relationships, the damaged relationships between people who …
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Palm Beach Day School https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSnZ5tjDlLY Above: the opening ceremony during Field Day at Palm Beach Day School, 20 April 1968. For intramural competition the school was divided into two teams, the "Pelicans" (blue uniforms) and "Flamingoes" (yellow uniforms.) Both my brother and I were in the latter. (View the video in QuickTime/iTunes format.) Right: A …
I posted this on YouTube recently: a "tour" of a Russian military factory, taken in 1994. The operation produced pile driving equipment for railroad troops. Having spent a good deal of time in machine shops, factories and foundries, what struck me was the scale of the operation and the vertical integration of the production. The …
Gary l'Hommedieu has it right, regarding TEC PB Katherine Jefferts-Schori's declaration that individual salvation is heretical: This week the Presiding Bishop declared holy war on heresy, and that's news. Which heresy? "That we can be saved as individuals, that any of us alone can be in right relationship with God." This heresy must be stamped …
One of the long running relationships of our family business was with the Nilens firm in Belgium. This family concern manufactured pile driving and other construction equipment. In January 1965 we were expecting a visit from their principal, Willy Nilens. What we got was a call from New York telling us that he, his colleague …
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I don't think an apology is in order. Miguel Alvarez' (Administrative Bishop for the Northeast Hispanic Region of the Church of God) knowledge and passion for this subject has enlightened this blog. From Facebook: Friends, First of all, please accept my apology, for using this channel to express my passionate opinion in favor of democracy …
Helene Tuchbreiter Portrait by Antonio Sereix Photo Reproduction by John Haynesworth Helene Tuchbreiter was one of Palm Beach's most prominent socialites in her time. She made an impact both on the social scene and on the people immediately around her. My own recollection of her, however, was more prosaic: she was one of my mother's …
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