Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
It doesn't get any better for Chattanooga since the Rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, the Rev. Brad Whitaker, went about town with the COVID-19 he had contracted while at an Episcopal conference. Among his many stops (which are documented in this article) is this one: On Feb. 28, Whitaker led a memorial service for …
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It had to happen sooner or later, but... The pastor of a large downtown Chattanooga church was declared the first case of COVID-19 in Hamilton County amid federal, state and local governments announcing a state of emergency due to the global pandemic. Following the announcement of the first local case, the Episcopal Church of East …
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This Week in AG History — March 12, 1927 By Darrin J. Rodgers Originally published on AG News, 12 March 2020 When Sven Lidman (1882-1960), one of Sweden’s most prominent authors, accepted Christ as Savior and was baptized at the leading Pentecostal church in Stockholm in 1921, it seemed as though the entire nation took […] …
via https://chineseorthodoxy.blogspot.com/2020/03/pastoral-directives-for-covid19.html: PASTORAL DIRECTIVES FOR COVID19 March 12th, 2020Dear Priests, Deacons, and Postulants, Over the last few months, the ACA&A has been dealing with the COVID19 outbreak in our Missionary Diocese of East and Southeast Asia. Because of our close contact with many priests and pastors at the epicenter of this outbreak, we know that …
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It sure did for Sir Isaac Newton, this from The World of Mathematics: Newton took his degree from Cambridge early in 1665. In the autumn of that year the great plague, which was raging in London, caused the University to close, and Newton went back to live at the isolated little house at Woolsthorpe where …
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Originally posted on Utopia, you are standing in it!: Utopia, you are standing in it! View original post via My favourite Jewish proverb — The Logical Place
On February 18 we had the great pleasure and privilege of viewing one of the authoritative original manuscripts of Thomas Aquinas’s commentary on Book III of the Sentences: the Pamplona university exemplar. A university exemplar is a master copy made from an author’s original text by a stationarius for the purpose of producing further copies… via …
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Our recent piece on Allan Haley brought up one of the more acrimonious subjects from the Anglican/Episcopal world we have dealt with: the All Saints/Waccamaw secession from the Episcopal Church, sometimes called the "Pawley's Island Case." When this site switched to WordPress, it left behind the original piece on the subject. I'm going to try …
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In this latest edition of Anglicans Unscripted: https://youtu.be/94d28CI-hlM Haley is probably the most erudite person to either cover or participate in the long legal war that the Episcopal Church waged with those who had had enough of its departure from the faith. Since the ACNA's formation, it's tempting to forget about all the litigation, but …
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Over the years, I've noticed that some people take a break for Lent on social media. Some of that is to avoid the dumpster fire that social media is and has been for a long time, and that's understandable. On the flip side, some want to take a break from putting out content and concentrating …
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