Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
E&M EMLP-005 (1966) This album comes from the Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Little Rock, Arkansas. It was done by the Episcopal Young Churchmen under the direction of the Rev. Edgar E. Shippey. As the name implies, the album's inspiration came from their retreats in the Arkansas mountains, with musical arrangement assisted by James A. Pence, …
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The composer and musician for much of the "sort-of Old Folk Mass" finds himself in hot water: Three women on Wednesday accused Catholic composer David Haas of sexual misconduct, the country’s leading Catholic newspaper reported. In an article in The National Catholic Reporter, the women detailed nonconsensual sexual acts by Mr. Hass when they were …
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Anglicans are often proud of the central place of scripture in prayer book worship, especially the lectionaries, those scheduled scripture readings for the Daily Offices of Morning and Evening Prayer and the Eucharist. Certainly, it is true that a widening diversity of calendars and lectionaries across the Anglican world are limiting claims about uniformity of… via …
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One of those Evangelical concepts that hasn't quite resonated with me is that of the "perfect will of God" for your life, that it is imperative to find that will and to live it. If you don't, you'll miss it big time. It's not that God's will is not perfect, it's that the creation isn't, …
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Why hasn’t feminism done better? It’s a movement that represents approximately half the world, and yet – as is driven home by the miniseries Mrs America, currently on iPlayer — its cultural force and legislative success arguably peaked well before the end of the twentieth century. Mrs America dramatises the battle by US feminists to… via …
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It just keeps going around and around, this time it's white women in the crosshairs: Torch-carrying neo-Nazis in Charlottesville were the face of white supremacy in 2017. Today it’s “Nice White Parents.” That’s the title of a new podcast distributed by the New York Times which argues that many black and brown children are not …
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The overwhelmingly white, anarchist activists who populate the ongoing protests in Portland, Oregon should not be underestimated for their strategic savvy. In seizing the mantle of “Black Lives Matter”, they’ve discovered a work-around to arrogate moral cover for whatever insurrectionary upheaval they would have been ideologically committed to fomenting anyway. The Left/liberal political and media… via …
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Celebrated a 1928 BCP said (and social-distanced) mass using an antique chaplain portable altar. via First outdoor church-in-a-box, surrounded by redwoods — Ad Orientem
This interesting exchange between Danté Stewart and the well-known Episcopal theologian Fleming Rutledge appeared in my Twitter feed: It's not a simple subject to unpack but it's not as hard to understand as Rutledge thinks it is. First, no matter how you try to make it happen the New Testament doesn't really advocate changing, let …
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Including this now ex-Washingtonian: During the last night in my condo in DC, I had to walk my dog an extra lap around the block because a crazy person was outside screaming obscenities. I wasn’t afraid. I just didn’t feel like getting into it with him or having to listen to his story—his “Let me …
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