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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Anglicanism: Reformed Catholicism, Protestant and Catholic
The question that continues to vex Anglicanism (perhaps since the time of the Reformation but even more so over the last 200 years) is whether she is…Anglicanism: Reformed Catholicism, Protestant and Catholic This is one of the more intelligent treatments of this complicated subject. I think there are two core problems here. On the Protestant …
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Anglican Tidbit: Music of the Episcopal Church
Word WST-9001-LP (1958) There was a time when the "music of the Episcopal Church" was a very definite quantity with a very distinct sound. As the sleeve notes point out: "The Anglican Communion (which includes the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America) draws its music from many sources including the great medieval …
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The Fact that Kristin du Mez Won’t Explain Anything Explains Everything
And she takes her time about doing it too, I'll reproduce just a snippet: Do I personally affirm “the church’s teaching that homosexuality is sinful?” Which church? My own church (local & denomination) is actively reexamining this issue in light of tradition, interpretation, history, & science. I’m participating, but as a historian, not a theologian. …
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Pentecostal Pioneer Katherine Voronaev Escaped USSR 61 Years Ago, Revealed Horrors of Persecution
Mugshot of Katherine Voronaev during her imprisonment in Soviet slave labor camps, circa 1930s This Week in AG History —November 27, 1960 By Darrin J. RodgersOriginally published on AG-News, 24 November 2021 Ivan and Katherine Voronaev, pioneer Assemblies of God missionaries to the Soviet Union, were exiled to Siberian prison camps in the 1930s and …
More Laud than Baxter: the Protestantism of 1662
“And the Church of England is Protestant too” – William Laud, then Bishop of St. David’s, later Archbishop of Canterbury. Before the mid-19th century…More Laud than Baxter: the Protestantism of 1662
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