An old Zenith Colour Television Broadcasts the Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King
Just about every television I grew up with was a Zenith. So I was intrigued when I saw this video of a Zenith colour "roundie." We had one in our family room in Palm Beach (I'm not sure whether it was this exact model but it was close.) https://youtu.be/Mo8n3jLoM_U?t=293 The sample broadcast he chose is …
What can Pentecostals learn from John Wesley, the founder of Methodism? — Flower Pentecostal Heritage Center
This Week in AG History — June 3, 1944 By Darrin J. Rodgers Originally published on AG News, 04 June 2020 What can Pentecostals learn from John Wesley (1703-1791), the founder of Methodism? Wesley, an Anglican priest in England, helped to lay the foundation for large segments of the evangelical and Pentecostal movements. Despite living […] …
“All police forces get buffeted from time to time, but they know one thing: through revolutions, political-line changes and the fall of governments, the police are eternal.”
From John Fraser's The Chinese: Portrait of a People. His observations centred on the Gonganju (Public Security Bureau) in China. They became enmeshed (and very politicised) with the Great Leap Forward and later the Cultural Revolution, and after Mao's death the Party began an effort to disentangle the Gonganju from political life (and ultimately involvement …
The Story of Our Hymns: All Creatures Of Our God And King — Anglican Compass
This is the second of a series on sacred hymns, the story behind them, their text, a recording, and a simple companion devotional. “A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.” - St. Francis of Assisi Every Hymn Has a Story St. Francis of Assisi was an Italian Catholic friar and preacher. Although… via …
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Go to Bed With the Dogs, Get Up With Fleas: the Episcopal Church, the ACNA, Social Justice and Race Relations
I find it strange that the Episcopal Church is up in a lather because Donald Trump marched with his entourage to St. John's Church near the White House and held up a Bible. Why is it strange? Reason I: it's a Bible. Episcopalians usually leave the daily Bible reading (or any Bible reading) to the …
Karl Friston: up to 80% not even susceptible to Covid-19 — UnHerd
Just one month ago, the idea that most people aren’t susceptible to Covid-19 — perhaps the overwhelming majority — was considered dangerous denialism. It was startling when Nobel-prize-winning scientist Michael Levitt argued in UnHerd at the start of May that the growth curves of the disease were never truly exponential, suggesting that some sort of… via …
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Both the radical Left and Right are ‘left-behinds’ — UnHerd
In my twenties, I inhabited a fringe of the London political activism scene that included full-on black bloc anarchists. I had begun working life as a middle-class graduate in London, soaked in critical theory and hostile to the economic system I was expected to join. Instead of knuckling down in a Big Four consulting firm… via …
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Traditional Morning Prayer: 4 June 2020
My Response to Matt Kennedy on the Ethnicity Issue in the ACNA
I had this exchange with Matt Kennedy re the ethnicity issue in the ACNA: The Pew survey I reference can be found here. As a personal aside the denomination I'm currently in has ethnic diversity which more or less reflects the general population, although they're not quite sure how to take best advantage of that.
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