Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
I never thought I'd ever see a debate on the subject of the inerrancy of Scriptures in an Anglican context. But one Dr. Scot McKnight, Professor of New Testament at Northern Seminary and (I think) in the C4SO (the usual source of trouble in the ACNA these days) has put himself front and centre with …
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When The Atlantic notes it, it's a problem: Right now we are lurching into another of our periodic crises over drinking, and both tendencies are on display at once. Since the turn of the millennium, alcohol consumption has risen steadily, in a reversal of its long decline throughout the 1980s and ’90s. Before the pandemic, …
This past weekend I reposted two articles The Neoliberal Age: The Decomposition of the Self – Covenant (Part 1 of 2) and The Neoliberal Age: The Decomposition of Anglicanism – Covenant (Part 2 of 2). As some of you may suspect, the principal reason why I reposted these excellent articles is because they, at last, …
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Clip source: The Neoliberal Age Part II: The Decomposition of Anglicanism – Covenant (Part 2 of 2) The Decomposition of Anglicanism – Covenant This is an essay in two parts. Part one may be found here. By Paul (H. Matthew Lee) "Anglican ministers and bishops are proud and rich, live in wealthy parishes and dioceses…The …
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Clip source: The Neoliberal Age: The Decomposition of the Self – Covenant The Decomposition of the Self – Covenant This is an essay in two parts. Part two may be found here. By Paul (H. Matthew Lee) "In combating racism we do not make progress if we combat the people themselves. We have to combat…The …
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Below is an interesting artefact: the bookplate of the Rev. Frederic S. Fleming (1886-1956,) Rector of Trinity Wall Street from 1932 to 1951. The book it came from was The Divine Liturgy by Herbert Luckock, which I reviewed here. Given his High Church inclination, I'm sure it was a favourite. His signature in the book …
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It's getting complicated: I went to Knoxville at Bishop Stika’s invitation. The Pillar reported last month that the Congregation for Bishops in Rome had received complaints about Stika’s leadership in the Knoxville diocese, and was considering initiating an apostolic visitation, or investigation, in the diocese. The complaints, which came from both priests and laity in …
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My last year in Church School was in sixth grade, after which I "graduated," first into youth choir and then as an acolyte. For that final year our teacher got the idea for us to put out a "newspaper" (the Jerusalem Daily News, obviously a take-off the Shiny Sheet) which might have been put out …
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In an effort such as this blog to present Bossuet’s works in English, one thing that becomes clear is that resources about his life and works in English are rather sparse. As Sanders herself notes at the start of Jacques Bénigne Bossuet: A Study, “Yet in England, notwithstanding the widespread and increasing appreciation of French …
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From time to time I'll present what I call "Anglican Tidbits," which are little things from the. Since North American Anglicanism has had an influx of people with little or no heritage in the Anglican world, I think it would be useful. The first one is a bulletin from Trinity Episcopal Church in New Orleans, …
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