Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
They're certainly obsessed with it: I intrude mention of the Episcopal Church here because of my presence at the late convention — where what could have been taken for the third, perhaps second, cousin of old-fashioned anti-Semitism prowled like a ramping and roaring lion, snarling at Israel, clapping its paws for the Palestinians. Resolution after …
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Sometimes patience is required to solve a problem: Instead of venting, Mr. Musk — indeed, Silicon Valley as a whole — can perhaps see the Thai operation as a lesson. This was a most improbable rescue against the longest odds. Safely navigating 12 kids and one adult, many of whom were not swimmers, through a …
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I've covered this matter here and here; it's generated a fair amount of interest. Today the school released the following, which I will reproduce in its entirety (with one minor correction): In late March we shared with you information regarding Bruce Presley, a former board member (1994 – 2000) and part-time instructor at Saint Andrew’s. …
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My response to the Rev. Thomas Reeves' ideas on this subject has in turn received a response from him. That response is too extensive for a "comment box" type of response so I am devoting a post to the topic. I'll quote parts of his response, but for brevity's sake they'll be short, but you …
Not too long ago I reviewed a book entitled Was Jesus an Evangelical? by the Rev. Thomas Reeves, an ACNA priest in Roanoke, VA. He's come back with some interesting points (most of which are in his book, in more detail) and he's given me the opportunity to post then and comment. We'll start here: …
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In looking through the links on Anglican Curmudgeon (which have taken the place of StandFirm for an index of Anglican/Episcopal blogs) I noticed something I never thought I'd see: Robin Jordan's Reshaping the 1928 Prayer Book Services for Mission, in four parts. That's because, for a long time, his position on the 1928 BCP ran …
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An interesting exchange between Sean Illing of Vox and Steven Brill yields this: Sean Illing The story of decline you tell really begins about 50 years ago, so is this basically a story of how a subset of the baby boomer generation drove the country off a cliff? Steven Brill That may be too much …
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A British couple has won a course case based on the obvious, which is very difficult in the United States: A heterosexual couple who were denied the right to enter into a civil partnership have won their claim at the UK’s highest court that they have suffered discrimination. Justices at the supreme court unanimously found …
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He was the Dean of the Lichfield Cathedral; his son was a schoolmate of Winston Churchill's, and he wrote many books from his Anglo-Catholic perspective. In The Divine Liturgy, Herbert Mortimer Luckock does a complete analysis of the Holy Communion in the 1662 Book of Common Prayer, and his journey has been, for me personally, …
Well, it's that time of the biennium again, when our ministers and their church pack up and spend several million dollars on the gathering called the General Assembly. I've made it my habit to comment on the agenda, which can be found here. The last time, OurCoG copied my comments in serial format (guys, next …
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Positive Infinity 