Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
It is just over nine years ago now that I was laid up in my hospital bed at OHSU in Portland, OR; I was being treated for an incurable, rare, and highly aggressive cancer known as Desmoplastic Small Round Cell Tumor sarcoma (DSRCT). The prognosis of this particular cancer is almost always imminent death (within […] …
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https://www.youtube.com/embed/0QLCX-vVWok?version=3&rel=1&fs=1&autohide=2&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&wmode=transparent Today, of course, is the fiftieth anniversary of Neil Armstrong’s first steps on the moon–“one giant leap for mankind,” to be sure. It was a great accomplishment and deserves to be remembered. It’s easy to forget, however, that at the time there were many–especially on the left–who believed that the whole enterprise was a …
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This Week in AG History — July 18, 1931 By Ruthie Edgerly Oberg Originally published on AG News, 18 July 2019 Otto J. Klink (1888-1955) was a German-born American Pentecostal evangelist who traveled the United States in the 1930s and 1940s, preaching salvation through Jesus Christ and warning his listeners about the dangers of socialism, […] …
Since the release of the ANCA 2019 Book of Common Prayer has open the floodgates for consideration of all kinds of controversial topics, it's time to consider one more: that of ad orientem, i.e., facing the altar during the Sacred Mysteries rather than the people. That's been the subject of a blog-to-blog volley between one …
It's time to look at another bone that's been picked with the ANCA's 2019 Book of Common Prayer: the omission of the phrase "miserable offenders" to the General Confession for Morning and Evening Prayer. Let's start with the 2019 text: And now from the 1928 BCP: In addition to the modernization of the language, the …
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The issuance of the ACNA 2019 Book of Common Prayer has brought back to the forefront many issues that have been "out there" for a long time. One of them is right up front in both the Apostles' and Nicene Creed: whether either or both should start with "I believe" or "We believe." This post …
In my post on the ACNA's 2019 Book of Common Prayer, I made mention that the Diocese of Quincy had banned its use (as had Anglican Ink.) There has been some push back to that, from VirtueOnline and Robin Jordan, that this is not what they have done. Although I'll betray my Thomistic intellectual background …
If I had to pick an event that transformed this site's focus and viewership more than any other, it was my posting of the 1928 Book of Common Prayer in December 2003. The 1662 Book was posted the following year. Coming as they did at the start of the explosion (and partly in response to …
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In this post on the subject on Anglican.ink, an interesting observation about some of the participants: Here one has to raise a very serious question viz a viz GAFCON. Why was Andy Lines (also a product of this culture and apparently abused by his mentor, Fletcher) selected and by whom to be chairman of GAFCON …
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The first round of Democratic Presidential debates is, mercifully, over. Winners and losers will sort themselves out in due season, but in the meanwhile let's consider one whom the media fawned over: Pete Buttigieg, South Bend's mayor. He's made quite a career doing something that none of his rivals have done to the extent that …
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