Later this year, this website will celebrate its tenth anniversary. A decade is an eternity on the Internet, especially when we've spent a good deal of it following the agony of the Anglican Communion's struggle between its liberal West and conservative Global South. One of the first pieces we posted was When Church Becomes Pointless, …
The Basic Problem with Reforming a Church
The back and forth in the Church of England over the new "covenant" Evangelicals have proposed highlights the central problem that reforming or renewing any church has: without the explicit support of its hierarchy or other leadership, the effort is doomed to fail. It's a story that has been repeated too many times in chuch …
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Capax Imperii, Nisi Imperasset: The Epitaph of the Boomers
At last we start a new year. The American voters spoke that they wanted something different; what they got was a Democratically controlled Congress. The left would like for you to believe that this is the greatest thing to happen to this country since Engle vs. Vitale. The rest of us look for analogies in …
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The Funeral Message I Did Not Deliver
Recently at my church we had an event take place that was so horrific it's hard to write about. One of our more esteemed members, with an active lay ministry, shot and killed himself in front on his wife on Christmas Eve after losing his job. For a long list of reasons (not the least …
Henry Louttit: Not a Chip off the Old Block
The letter from the Bishop of Georgia, Henry Louttit, to his oldest parish trying to force them to pay up to an Episcopal Church they have no confidence in shows in vivid terms how far the Episcopal Church has gone in the last forty years. As we reminisce in a piece from our "Palm Beach …
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Pardoning Richard Nixon was the Right Thing To Do
The death of Gerald Ford has revived one of the great guessing games of the 1970's: was it right to pardon Richard Nixon after all he had done? We think it was. To drag out Nixon's trial in the liberal-controlled media of the time would have furthered the left's agenda by running down people's respect …
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A Country Needs to be Defended by its Own
Although we are unenthusiastic about bringing back the draft, we aren't any more enthusiastic about our military actively recuriting foreigners to defend our country. This is not based on some vague, moralistic patriotic urge. It is based on a knowledge of late Roman history, and specifically the disaster that the British leader Vortigern induced when …
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The Christmas Story, from the Positive Infinity New Testament
About that time an edict was issued by the Emperor Augustus that a census should be taken of the whole Empire. (This was the first census taken while Quirinius was Governor of Syria). And every one went to his own town to be registered. Among others Joseph went up from the town of Nazareth in …
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Ann Coulter’s Voting Problems Continue
Back before the election, we noted a piece in the Shiny Sheet about Ann Coulter's problems with voting in Palm Beach. At the time, we felt that this was a prosecutorial fishing expedition, politically motivated. Things keep moving somewhere with this. Now the Town of Palm Beach has thrown the investigation back to the Palm …
Leaving the Episcopal Church: Doing What Has to be Done
The in-process exodus from the Episcopal church by various parishes in Northern Virginia has been greeted with glee by many in the Anglican community. The reality is, however, that what they are doing is more of a necessity than a joy. When a denomination or other church organisation decides to abandon the basics of Christianity, …
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