Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
Another Anglican Tidbit, in this case the bulletin from Bethesda-by-the-Sea Episcopal Church for the Twenty-Third Sunday after Trinity, 1968. Some interesting notes: The liturgy is 1928 BCP/1940 Hymnal, for those of you who are looking for help in using this for current liturgical practice.The two main services are Morning Prayer (they also had Evening Prayer …
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“What does the word bourgeois actually mean? … The word designates a spiritual state, a direction of the soul, a peculiar consciousness of being.” “The bourgeois, even when he is a ‘good Catholic’, believes only in this world, in the expedient and the useful; he is incapable of living by faith in another world and refuses to …
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Columbia ML-4528 (1952) This fascinating record is really two albums in one. The first, directed by Ray F. Brown, is a "Plainsong" rendition of the 1928 Book of Common Prayer Holy Communion and Evening Prayer. The "Plainsong" is what we would generally call Gregorian Chant (or in the style of Gregorian Chant.) It's well done …
In this case Jon Meacham: Samford University has uninvited Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Jon Meacham from inauguration ceremonies for the school's new president after student protest...However, in a letter Wednesday, Beck Taylor, who became university president in July, wrote that due to objections, including from "elements of Samford's Student Government Association," the university had decided to …
In twenty years’ time, Anglican enthusiasts will mark the bicentennials of three nineteenth-century libraries: the Wycliffe Society Library, the …Reinventing the English Reformation In spite of all of the issues that the last century and this one dumped on the Anglican/Episcopal world--WO, the social justice issues, the sexual identity and practice issues, you name it--one …
In Iceland, this is literally the case: A proposal to ban clergy from charging or accepting fees for funerals, weddings and baptisms has prompted threats of industrial action by the clergy union of the Church of Iceland (Þjóðkirkjan). A little while back I lamented the following: The second is that (with exceptions) our ministers and …
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Earlier today I posted a link to a free Soviet textbook entitled Systems of Linear Equations. It was published in the late 1980's and is one of a series of Soviet textbooks I've highlighted on my websites. Why, you ask, do I pass along Soviet textbooks? There are two reasons. The first is that I …
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For many churches, it's time to think about the Advent/Christmas season. Maybe you've already started. Maybe you're dealing with serious questions, like...should I ask N to light the Advent wreath after he/she almost burned the church down last year? Or perhaps...is there a reason why the congregation mouths the sermons I'm preaching, they are after …
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This time for the Democrats, with Vice President Kamala Harris' video for African-American churches: Democratic leaders have pulled out the stops to try to help Terry McAuliffe in his struggling campaign for governor in Virginia. Figures from Barack Obama to Stacey Abrams have stumped for McAuliffe who is in a tight race with businessman Glenn …
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America is caught in a “revolutionary spiral”. An oligarchy composed of a small number of corporate and government rulers may be in control, but they…The triumph of America’s ruling class
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