A little bit of their recent Christmas program: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlxVwnaLc7g The Roueché's are some of my favourite people. They hosted and led our Catholic Charismatic prayer group for many years, which included youth trips to the University of Steubenville. They did so while resisting the siren song of the covenant community. They are great people and …
Ecce Rex Tuus: St. Thomas Aquinas’ Christmas Sermon
For those of us who owe our theological sanity to marching through St. Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologiae and Disputed Question on Truth, his Christmas sermon, which encapsulates his method in a very nice form.  Merry Christmas! The Aquinas Institute would like to give our subscribers and supporters a Christmas gift: Aquinas’s Christmas sermon Ecce Rex …
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Sounds of Christmas Past: Robert Shaw's Joy to the World
The first Christmas album I ever owned--and I still have it--is the Robert Shaw Chorale's Joy to the World, released on RCA Camden in 1958.  Recorded right after World War II, it has two distinctives: it's entirely a capella and all the carols are traditional and sacred. "Jeffnham" has done something completely different: he's recorded the …
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Steeleye Span: Gaudete
It's just a tad late in the Advent calendar, but just in time for Christmas: "Gaudete," sung a capella by the British folk/rock group Steeleye Span. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoQ3kbxegHY Getting British rockers (even folk types like Steeleye Span) to sing in Latin was no mean trick, but they did it, and this video furnishes the lyrics. Guaranteed …
David Meece: My Father's Chair
At this time of year I usually think of my mother, who passed at this time of year. But I heard this gem on Jradio Rewind this AM, had to share: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_AfMKuOB80
Why did Gondor not move the Palantir at Minas Ithil before it was captured? or, what Tech People Wonder About When Not Thinking About Tech
Check out this interesting thread at Stack Exchange, one of the premier sites for programmers of all kinds.  There are at least 2,400 other questions on Tolkien topics, and you can check them out, too.
The Wesleyan Advent Hymn the Wesleyan Pentecostals Don't Sing
It's the classic hymn for the Second Sunday in Advent: "Lo, He Comes with Clouds Descending," done in good Anglo-Catholic style here: https://youtu.be/RPmO75cXXcM?list=PL203B2568FF4CD221 The lyrics were written by Charles Wesley in 1758; more than one tune has been affixed to them, this is my favourite. It's about the Second Coming, which is really what Advent …
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Does Anyone Really Believe This Current System is Permanent?
One of side "benefits" of being in the Anglican/Episcopal blogosphere is to get to know "Anglicans Unscripted," the video interview series hosted by Kevin Kallsen, with frequent contribution by fellow Palm Beacher George Conger. In a recent episode with Kallsen and the Queen's former chaplain Gavin Ashenden, they discussed a float in Justin Welby's parade …
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If You're Goal is to Eliminate the Bad People in Power, What Happens When You Succeed?
An interesting observation from Jonathan Haidt about what college students are being indoctrinated in these days: But what do we do now? Many students are given just one lens—power. Here’s your lens, kid. Look at everything through this lens. Everything is about power. Every situation is analyzed in terms of the bad people acting to …
Not Much on Taking Advice: Pentecostals and Anglicanism
Growing up--especially when we lived on Lookout Mountain, something of a fantasy land in itself--I always enjoyed the Disney movies and records I could take in or had. One of those that's stuck with me is the song "Very Good Advice" from Alice in Wonderland. The clip from the movie is below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Srn0xkXTSgs Today is …
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Positive Infinity 