Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
As some of you know, I teach at Lee University in their new Engineering program. Recently I reserved a computer lab to administer a test, and was regaled with the above, from St. John Chrystostom's Pascal Homily. It was written on the white board (the students were amazed it was in cursive, I guess I …
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And more acrimonious too: It’s getting downright nasty and legal. ACNA bishops led by Bishop Phil Ashey contend that the charges of misconduct (but not of a sexual nature) laid at the feet of Bishop Derek Jones of the Special Jurisdiction of the Armed Forces and Chaplaincy (SJAFC) are grounds for an inhibition. The complaints …
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It's been a while since I've been actively posting to this site, and in looking at my stats an old favourite page has been active again: Think Before You Convert. It's an overview of why you should (or shouldn't) convert to Roman Catholicism or, if you're there why you might want to take your leave. As …
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https://northamanglican.com/a-second-look-at-lying-and-the-ethics-of-the-new-christian-right/ The response to Ben Crenshaw's bold statement strikes me as overcomplicated, I have a few thoughts on this issue. It's one thing to say lying is a sin, but to say that lying has no eternal consequences--the ultimate criterion--undercuts the sinfulness of lying. That's built into a number of theologies floating around today. I've …
https://northamanglican.com/reformed-vs-re-formed-a-synopsis/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=reformed-vs-re-formed-a-synopsis I did my best to follow this back and forth, but it wasn't easy. For me, however, the key point finally came here: The crux of this dispute is the nature and substance of the English Reformation. The basic facts of what occurred during the English Reformation are generally agreed upon, but its larger …
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It's not getting better, even with the departure of the current Occupant at Canterbury: The long knives are out. John Smyth's sadistic behavior which has claimed the Archbishop of Canterbury, could claim as much as 30 percent of the Church of England's evangelicals, a confidential source told VOL. There has been a conspiracy of silence …
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Announced in the Church Times: THE German theologian Professor Jürgen Moltmann, who was widely read in English translation, died on Monday, aged 98. A member of the Evangelical Church in Germany, he was Professor Emeritus of Systematic Theology in the University of Tübingen. But his serious theological reading first began in the UK, to which he was brought …
https://northamanglican.com/formulating-orthodoxy-the-centrality-of-canon-law-for-common-prayer-and-doctrine/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=formulating-orthodoxy-the-centrality-of-canon-law-for-common-prayer-and-doctrine There are a couple of things that the Rev. Andrew Brashier's verbiose treatment of the subject left out. The first concerns the whole "Patristic revival" that brought things such as the Apostolic Canons back into view. He's right that it was a background for both the Novus Ordo Missae and that dreadful 1979 Book …
The news that Cornerstone University in Michigan is ending all humanities and arts programs (with booting of professors following) has shaken many in the Christian collegiate community. It's also something that comes close to home: this fall, Lord willing, I'll start teaching engineering at Lee University, which has been a liberal arts college for a …
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It really is that time again: the Church of God is looking at another General Council and General Assembly in Indianapolis, IN. The agenda itself is here and I’ll be doing a “blow by blow” commentary on same. Before all of that let’s start with a cautionary note: the most significant part of the Council’s …
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