It's official now. It has been my custom to reproduce sentiments of people who have died which I wrote while they're living, and I'll do the same for Pope Francis. First: I would quote from my 2019 piece Pope Francis to Bossuet: Hold My Beer, but it's the best summation of my attitude towards the …
Book Review: “What Still Divides Us”–North American Anglican, and Some Comments
https://northamanglican.com/book-review-what-still-divides-us/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=book-review-what-still-divides-us As someone who has been "there and back again" on this divide (and there are few of us who have made that journey) I think I could add something to the discussion, so here goes: In the first chapter, “How are we Saved?” Maloney points out significant differences in how Protestants and Roman Catholics …
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A Few Observations About Engineering Programs as a “Left/Right” Issue
I've gotten a whiff of a sentiment about the engineering program currently being developed (full disclosure, I'm a participant in that process) at Lee University. I understand that some are of the opinion that it's being brought into the university as a way of moving things to the left. Since I came into Lee in …
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Francis Collins Calls it Quits
It's done: Late last week, Christian geneticist Francis Collins resigned abruptly as a researcher at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). On Wednesday this week, the U.S. Senate held a confirmation hearing for a new NIH director, Stanford University medical professor Jay Bhattacharya, a fellow Christian who Collins privately disparaged as one of “three fringe epidemiologists” during the COVID …
Beating the Bounds of Anglican Eucharistic Doctrine–The North American Anglican (Or More Accurately, Beating Around the Bush)
https://northamanglican.com/beating-the-bounds-of-anglican-eucharistic-doctrine-commentary-on-browne-article-xxviii/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=beating-the-bounds-of-anglican-eucharistic-doctrine-commentary-on-browne-article-xxviii This is a long exposition of Anglican Eucharistic doctrine that mostly succeeds in making it look complicated. I thought about doing a "blow by blow" on this, but I will restrict myself to referring my readers to my 2020 article on the subject, Overcomplicating Anglican Eucharistic Theology. https://bossuetproject.wordpress.com/2020/10/19/overcomplicating-anglican-eucharistic-theology/?page_id=14108
Reformed Methodist–The North American Anglican
https://northamanglican.com/reformed-methodist/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=reformed-methodist The "ties that bind" American Christianity are a complex web, and this is a good example of that. It's no secret that the Wesleyan tradition--like John and Charles Wesley themselves--came out of Anglicanism, and had things worked out a little differently the Episcopal Church itself could have stayed together with North American Wesleyanism. But …
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The Strategic Issue Behind Trump’s Spats with Canada and Greenland
The American media's its usual uninformative self about geopolitical issues, but this video puts many things in a whole new light: https://youtu.be/rCBt4XgCX-0?si=-a6e7iUdUwhxrSP4 It makes perfect sense that the U.S. would want to secure its northern frontier against incursion by the...Russians and Chinese, those people who Trump's enemies have convinced themselves he has sold out to. …
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A Few Reminders on Fast and Abstinence During Lent
As Lent fast approaches, I've seen some pushback on X from Anglicans on "why do we do the imposition of ashes on Ash Wednesday as Anglicans?" It's a fair question, and the culprits in the Anglican-Episcopal world are the "more Catholic than the Pope" people, the Anglo-Catholics. In the middle of their preparation for the …
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Something Worse than Monarchical Absolutism
Sometimes the most interesting and profound of statements come from some of the unlikeliest places, and this is one of them: it was reprinted in the January 1919 edition of Crane Valve World, the periodical of the Crane Company, the Chicago based company that makes valves and other fittings for piping of air, steam, water …
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The Mikado and the Europeans
Teaching at Lee University has brought back memories of things I experienced there before even I was drawn into their fledgling engineering program. Now that we are on our way to a building for same with the woes of the present world for a background, there's something that has come back to mind that I …
Positive Infinity 