The thirteen year-old was me, and I wrote this for the Palm Beach Day School's student newspaper the Portfolio Flyer, Volume II Issue X dated 18 December 1968: 1,972 years in the past, in a little Israeli town called Bethlehem, probably one of the most important events in the history of the world occurred. Mary …
Deconstructing Santa Claus
A little while back I posted The Bad Little Bunny: An Easter Tale, where I made my teacher hopping mad at my refusal to go along with the conventional wisdom. (Another Chattanoogan, Jon Meacham, got accused of putting a bullet in the Easter bunny, so maybe my incident needs some re-evalulation.) Evidently there's something about …
Nicene Theology and Patristic Exegesis Go Together
I never thought I'd live long enough to read this statement: I realized that if classical theism was to be retrieved, it was necessary to defend the superiority of patristic exegesis, a project I undertook in Interpreting Scripture with the Great Tradition: Recovering the Genius of Premodern Exegesis (2018). By the time I published my …
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I Wonder…How Many of these ACNA Exvangelicals Still Believe in Eternal Security?
There's no doubt that the "exvangelicals" that have populated places like C4SO have made a splash in the Anglican Church in North America. What kind of spash...that's another story. When the ACNA started, some of us thought an influx of same would breathe some new life into North American Anglicanism. Now I think we're having …
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Anglican Tidbit: Bulletin for the Third Sunday in Advent
Another bulletin from Bethesda-by-the-Sea Episcopal Church, this time from 1965: As usual, the 1928 BCP/1940 Hymnal was being used. Holy Communion was at 0800 and 0900 but not at 1100. Generally for the latter two services it was done once a month. The Rector was Robert Appleyard, who went on to be Bishop of Pittsburgh …
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This is Tolkien’s world
It’s exactly 20 years since I stood in line to see a film I had dreamed about since I was a little boy. Ever since I had first turned the pages of J.…This is Tolkien’s world
Maria Gerber: How a Pentecostal Missionary Became an “Angel of Mercy” During the Armenian Genocide
This Week in AG History —December 4, 1915 By Darrin J. RodgersOriginally published on AG-News, 09 December 2021 An estimated 800,000 to 1,500,000 …Maria Gerber: How a Pentecostal Missionary Became an “Angel of Mercy” During the Armenian Genocide
Anglican Tidbit: Once in Royal David’s City (Cathedral of St. John the Divine)
Word WST-9021-LP (1964) People who were brought up in the "Old High Church" (Episcopal) will find themselves flooded with memories of Christmas past with this classic from the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, with their choir led by Alec Wyton, Organist and Master of Chorister. As was the case, the only instrument allowed was …
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Book Review: “Aquinas and the Cry of Rachel”
Aquinas and the Cry of Rachel: Thomistic Reflections on the Problem of Evil. By John F. X. Knasas. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America …Book Review: “Aquinas and the Cry of Rachel”
1928 Book of Common Prayer with the Original Lectionary
The cover of the 1928 Book of Common Prayer, as it's been offered on Positive Infinity since it was uploaded in December 2003. The church, of course, is Bethesda-by-the-Sea in Palm Beach, the webmaster's home church, and a suitable backdrop for this prayer book. A little while back I posted The Episcopal Church My Mother …
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