Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
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, …
Mohler opines in a lengthy piece on the subject: In truth, the issue of women serving as pastors fuelled the Conservative Resurgence in the SBC. The question was instantly clarifying. The divide over women serving in the pastorate served as a signal of the deeper divide over the authority and interpretation of the Bible. Simply …
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In the last post, I gave a book review of Donald Connolly's In a Holy Year, Renewing Your Faith: An Anthology of Spiritual Readings. I promised I'd give some life reflections on this, and this is the fulfilment of that promise. This book is more than just a book: the anthology compiler was my first …
Ever wanted to spend time with someone who impacted your life but is now gone? As we see the annual odometer spin ever faster, that desire becomes more common. For Christians, we have the assurance that we will see those people who were likewise committed to Christ once again on the other side. But the …
These elevations are primarily about the conception of Jesus Christ in Mary, and as such is an exposition of Bossuet’s idea of Mary’s role. But it’s also a theological tour de force: Bossuet turns his elevations on Our Lord’s human beginning into an emotional panegyric of his divine, eternal origin. One of the best examples …
An interesting observation by Tim Keller: The second influence impoverishing the modern practice of forgiveness is a rising shame and honour culture that some have called a new secular religion. According to Bradley Campbell and Jason Manning, the therapeutic culture has converted us into a collection of “self-actualizers,” whose primary concern is to get respect …
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