https://www.youtube.com/embed/v9ZA2v8Rcdk?version=3&rel=1&fs=1&autohide=2&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&wmode=transparent A response inspired by Meditations on the Gospel. via My Response to Some of the “Sad Sack” Videos Churches Have Been Putting Out During COVID-19 — The Bossuet Project
My Laboratory Course Introduction, Including Some of My Philosophy of Teaching
https://youtu.be/AoRHtlabC5s COVID-19 has forced many of us in academia to go online (or at least hybrid/blended) in our teaching. This includes the lab course I teach, and this is the first in a series of videos for that course. In the process of introducing students to the course, I make some comments on my philosophy …
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The Berlin-Baghdad Express: The Ottoman Empire and Germany’s Bid for World Power, 1898-1918 by Sean McMeekin — The Logical Place
Originally posted on Books & Boots: Memorandum on revolutionizing the Islamic territories of our enemies (Title of a paper written in October 1914 by German archaeologist and Orientalist Max von Oppenheim which argued for enlisting the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire to call on the world’s Muslims to engage in a Holy War or jihad …
Maybe We Americans Sometimes Need to Pray for the Queen
I was watching this, a recitation of the traditional Morning Prayer service by Len Finn at St. George's Anglican Church in Burlington, Ontario. https://youtu.be/eTOLfdQ6MDY It's "traditional" because it's from the Canadian 1962 BCP, their "final true Anglican prayer book" before they went off the deep end like their counterparts south of the border. (Technically it's …
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The Birds are Still Singing
It's fair to say that it's been a spring for the record books. COVID-19 has upended our country in general, but for those of us in academia it's especially bad. For my part the jolting transition to online has been easier on me than my students; I think that the academy has a rough road …
Spiritual Communion as past and future experience. — Ad Orientem
[We] must affirm Christ's objective presence in the Eucharist, and must maintain that “Spiritual Communion” is not the same as the Eucharist. We can understand liturgical contemplation and “Spiritual Communion” as receiving the grace of the Holy Spirit by recalling the sacraments we have already received, recalling our baptism, which is praised by the Early… via …
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Laughter, – an antidote to fear, death and the human condition. — Gavin Ashenden
In a seedy hotel in Paris, Oscar Wilde lay on his death bed. His life had been a search for beauty and elegance. He had been a master of wit and adventure; until his life crashed. On his death bed, two things happened. He was received into the Roman Catholic Church and he made one …
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Church Homecoming, Virtual Episcopal Style
"Homecoming" is a term that usually evokes a lot of maudlin blubbering in Evangelical circles (especially Southern ones.) Images of "old-time" religion and hymns, "dinner on the ground," and churches and families getting together cloud our eyes with tears and our minds with nostalgia. Bill Gaither was wise in tapping into this the way he …
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The New Normal — Stand Firm
Every single morning now, when I fire up the interwebs, there are at least three articles about the “new normal.” Some of them ponderously explain that there will be a new normal. Others disparage the very idea of there being a new normal. The more interesting ones try to imagine what the new normal will… via …
Mercy Chefs Distributes Red Beans and Rice to Chattanooga Tornado Victims
Positive Infinity 