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Jul 12, 2025: The Book of Common Prayer: Thomas Cranmer’s Technology of the Heart, Simeon Zahl - YouTube
Apr 1, 2025: Robert crouse
Jan 5, 2024: Healey Willan’s Second Communion Service, Now in the Public Domain?
Jan 4, 2024: The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith has issued a statement seeking to “clarify” Fiducia Supplicans.
Nov 17, 2023: Parent’s Happiness (1903) - Jean-Eugène Buland (1852-1926)
Nov 13, 2023: A talk by Sr. Sara Butler on The debate about women priests
Nov 3, 2023: Currently reading: The Caroline Divines and the Church of Rome by Mark Langham 📚 The unpalatable fact is that certain decisions in any province …
Nov 3, 2023: Currently reading: The Caroline Divines and the Church of Rome by Mark Langham 📚 Now that developments have occurred in the Episcopal Church of North …
Nov 3, 2023: Bishop of Oswestry on the occasion of All Souls
Oct 17, 2023: The Angler’s House, Chris Thompson
Oct 16, 2023: I have written frequently that we are not in charge of the outcome of history. “Management” is among the great myths of the modern mind. Humility is …
Oct 16, 2023: Creation of Adam
Oct 16, 2023: Reformed Episcopal Church Book of Common Prayer Invitation to Communion: Our fellow Christians of other branches of Christ’s Church, who have been …
Oct 16, 2023: Whereas the Edwardian and Elizabethan divines had been interested in the Fathers chiefly as a means of proving what had or had not been the primitive …
Oct 15, 2023: I had store credit at the local used book shop and picked this up today.
Oct 15, 2023: Bishop Charles Brent
Oct 7, 2023: 50¢ thrift store find, With God in Prayer by Brent
Oct 4, 2023: The Address Leaf of the Early Modern Letter | Folger Shakespeare Library The length of an address varied most widely along several axes: Social …
Sep 27, 2023: The English Portuary
Sep 20, 2023: On this episode of the Stand Firm podcast, Matt and Nick continue tracing the beginnings of the ACNA with Dr. Jon Shuler. On this episode, he tells …
Sep 20, 2023: A Catholic view of GAFCon 2023 from Fr. Timothy Matkin
Sep 18, 2023: Currently reading: Language in Thought and Action by S. I. Hayakawa 📚
Sep 16, 2023: Currently reading: The Well Wrought Urn by Cleanth Brooks 📚
Sep 12, 2023: Hundreds of Pelicans
Sep 10, 2023: “The Uplifting Of Psyche”, Henry John Stock (1853-1930)
Sep 9, 2023: Watching DeMille’s The Sign of the Cross tonight 🎥
Sep 9, 2023: Welcome back - by Paul Kingsnorth
Sep 9, 2023: I have always had some intuition of God or gods or spirits, usuually experienced for me through the natural world, and I have always been searching …
Sep 7, 2023: Ezio Anichini
Sep 5, 2023: The city is for those who are empty, and it pushes away those who are filled. The desert keeps those who are filled and allows them to thrive. —Fr. …
Sep 5, 2023: “Human perfection and technical perfection are incompatible. If we strive for one, we must sacrifice the other: there is, in any case, a parting of …
Sep 5, 2023: apenitentialprayer September 5, 2023: detail of Our Lady Star of the Sea, by Theophilia Could it be—? No, it couldn’t. But what if it should be …
Sep 4, 2023: with reverence before God, be mindful of all the mercies you may ever have received from Him. Thank Him for them with all your heart, and as a sign of …
Sep 4, 2023: The Fortnightly - 03 September, 2023 August 15 - 18, After flying from London to Newark, New Jersey, I drive to Scranton for the 8th G-3/PNCC …
Sep 2, 2023: St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Mishawaka
Sep 2, 2023: St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Mishawaka, ca 1885, interior, Rev. Augustine Prentiss
Sep 2, 2023: St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Mishawaka, interior sketch undated
Aug 30, 2023: The ACNA chart on Women’s Ordination I have maintained for 4 years has been updated Majority of Bishops and Parishes against female priests, but …
Aug 27, 2023: There was nothing effeminate about [The Oxford Movement], as there was nothing fanatical; there was nothing extreme or foolish about it; it was a …
Aug 24, 2023: Father Mike Schmitz “AD ORIENTEM” (not “VERSUS POPULUM”)
Aug 24, 2023: Ultimately, the future of Anglo-Catholicism lies with Orthodoxy or a reconstituted Old Catholicism because they have held to the reformed catholic …
Aug 23, 2023: Technopoly tells us that we own ourselves, and that everything we need to fulfill our own (unchallengeable) desires is available for sale in the …
Aug 22, 2023: Coptic Orban Stamp for Holy communion (5")
Aug 22, 2023: No one doubts that Cranmer, Jewel, or Hooker were deeply committed to the witness of the ancient Church and the Fathers. The real question is whether …
Aug 22, 2023: I disagree that ”The Thirty-Nine Articles are not just Protestant but distinctly Reformed in their soteriology and sacramentology.” This suggests that …
Aug 13, 2023: surveys indicate that screens and e-readers interfere with two other important aspects of navigating texts: serendipity and a sense of control. People …
Aug 11, 2023: No item of Christian morality is valid only for Christians. […] The foundation is that (Christian morality) is the correct way of “running the …
Aug 11, 2023: “These departures are indicative of a disconnect between two groups within the ACNA: former mainline Protestants, including former Episcopalians, …
Aug 11, 2023: the bishop of C4SO is reconsidering his role in helping these churches. For the congregations in Austin and Indianapolis, Hunter said his approach …
Aug 10, 2023: Currently reading: The Caroline Divines and the Church of Rome by Mark Langham 📚 It might indeed be the case that, rather than conserving orthodoxy, …
Aug 9, 2023: Bearded dragon escaped the outdoor pen when unattended: scaled (lol) the high fence and crawled into a rose bush. Took an hour of searching a very …
Aug 8, 2023: Eucharistica: an Anglican High Church pocket devotional for Holy Communion. Dated 1844 on bookplate.
Aug 8, 2023: If we are to be healthy spiritually, we must cooperate with God’s divine grace. The nous, as the center of our being, refers to the noetic …
Aug 8, 2023: English Altar - A cream and blue damask frontal with embroidered design, riddel curtains, riddel posts and polychromed reredos. Wynnewood, PA Source: …
Aug 8, 2023: Rood Screen from Cawston Parish Church
Aug 5, 2023: When we say their Eucharist is invalid, we’re merely asserting that it lacks the assurance that grace is conveyed in the way it was intended by …
Aug 2, 2023: Bishop Paul Thomas - Catholic Anglican Episcopacy
Jul 31, 2023: Discerning a very good case for–possible even a calling to–church planting. Fundraising is scary
Jul 28, 2023: This is what it’s been like for at least five years in certain corners of the ACNA. Some clergy and congregations look like ducks, they sound like …
Jul 28, 2023: “The American Missal” and “The Anglican Missal (American Edition)” are basically the BCP liturgy embedded in the context of the private prayers of the …
Jul 27, 2023: Eric Matthew Parker: Are there Anglo-Catholics today who hold to Michael Ramsey’s view of the episcopacy, which he calls the “Cyprianic …
Jul 27, 2023: 1928 Book of Common Prayer analytical index (PDF)
Jul 27, 2023: This move was prompted by a number of issues on which the clergy felt, in their words, “increasingly misaligned” with the ACNA - …
Jul 27, 2023: A very large percentage of people were legitimately unaware of the history of the ACNA and its policies about women/sexual minorities, until the …
Jul 25, 2023: The liturgy, too, is not afraid to refer to our imperfection. It speaks repeatedly of our failings, our neglect, our hard heartedness. This is not …
Jul 25, 2023: The problem of “role” is faced by many in ministry today. People feel “called” to do one thing, yet find themselves thrust …
Jul 25, 2023: Robin Harris Here are some of the ideas I saw Gerwig playing with in the Barbie movie: Modernity is really weird and asks us to be men and women in a …
Jul 25, 2023: Resilient by Gary Ball
Jul 24, 2023: I’ve tried to get on with Obsidian, I even set up a self-hosted live-sync server. but I just can’t find it as useful as other apps, like …
Jul 24, 2023: No council, no synod, no ecclesiastical authority has the power to invent a female priesthood … without seriously damaging the perennial …
Jul 24, 2023: This is paternalism at its finest: the assumption that plebes and commoners couldn’t possibly be expected to hear a “thee” or “thou” without a …
Jul 23, 2023: Currently reading: The Caroline Divines and the Church of Rome by Mark Langham 📚 ARCIC notes that Ministry and Ordination plainly states that only a …
Jul 23, 2023: Wonderful used book find, Adolph Tanquerey, The Spiritual Life published by the [Anglican] Society of Saint John the Evangelist.
Jul 23, 2023: “Prayer is the world in tune” — Henry Vaughan
Jul 22, 2023: [T]he Christian message was not only “informative” but “performative.” That means: the Gospel is not merely a communication of things that can be …
Jul 21, 2023: Currently reading: The Caroline Divines and the Church of Rome by Mark Langham 📚 For the Anglican theologians, the supposed identification of gazing …
Jul 21, 2023: Currently reading: The Caroline Divines and the Church of Rome by Mark Langham 📚 It has been argued that the caution of the Caroline Divines was less …
Jul 20, 2023: CGA 2
Jul 20, 2023: CGA 1
Jul 19, 2023: Denis Gordeev, Salome
Jul 17, 2023: Currently reading: The Caroline Divines and the Church of Rome by Mark Langham 📚
Jul 17, 2023: On this episode, Mary Eberstadt discusses her latest book, Primal Screams: How the Sexual Revolution Created Identity Politics. The Myth of the Lone …
Jul 15, 2023: “But any attempt to ‘modernise’ liturgy in terms of making it more acceptable to modern society (i.e. ‘pastoral …
Jul 14, 2023: Fireside | Mike Moyers
Jul 14, 2023: Currently reading: The Caroline Divines and the Church of Rome by Mark Langham 📚 For the Divines, the manner of the Eucharistic change belonged …
Jul 14, 2023: Currently reading: The Caroline Divines and the Church of Rome by Mark Langham 📚 But counter-Reformation Roman theology, in its concern to combat …
Jul 14, 2023: Currently reading: Habitation of Dragons by Keith Miller 📚
Jul 13, 2023: However, those boys who grew up in neighborhoods where there were more fathers present — even if not their own — had significantly higher chances of …
Jul 13, 2023: Until there is such clarity, there will be no unity among those of us who like to think of ourselves as Catholic and Anglican Churchmen. There will be …
Jul 12, 2023: Currently reading: The Caroline Divines and the Church of Rome by Mark Langham 📚 In an age of great learning and celebrity converts, there were …
Jul 12, 2023: Currently reading: The Caroline Divines and the Church of Rome by Mark Langham 📚 it was in the hands of the Caroline Divines that this ‘Appeal to …
Jul 10, 2023: Canon John Fenton, the New Testament scholar, once said of Christianity: “You’ve got to feel it in your guts.” Charles I came to …
Jul 10, 2023: One of the many threads that link together the post-evangelical left and the Christian nationalist right is a shocking indifference to arguments, …
Jul 9, 2023: Currently reading: On Eucharistical Adoration by John Keble 📚 the question may well be asked–much more easily asked than …
Jul 9, 2023: Currently reading: On Eucharistical Adoration by John Keble 📚 How shall we stand, morally and spiritually, as clergymen bound by certain Articles, …
Jul 9, 2023: Currently reading: On Eucharistical Adoration by John Keble 📚 Renewed nature prompts the Christian, and Holy Scripture from beginning to end …
Jul 6, 2023: “God will cleanse your sins if you yourself are dissatisfied with yourself and will keep on changing until you are perfect.” St. Augustine of …
Jul 6, 2023: I am now questioning the accuracy of my claim that the use of the vernacular is as characteristic of the Eastern rites as it is of the Novus Ordo in …
Jul 6, 2023: Compared to the Novus Ordo, the Byzantine liturgy looks like a king next to a pauper, a Rembrandt next to a caricature, a feast after a famine. But …
Jul 6, 2023: Currently reading: Discernment by Henri J. M. Nouwen 📚 Discernment allows us to “see through” the appearance of things to their deeper meaning and …
Jul 5, 2023: Currently reading: Habitation of Dragons by Keith Miller 📚
Jul 5, 2023: The key to spiritual therapy is not killing of the desire, for most desires, being a connection to our wills, are gifts from God. Source: Sunday …
Jul 5, 2023: Don’t eat cereal for breakfast, drink beer. Cereal is anti-Christian. Cereal is beer than didn’t endure to the end. Cereal is unbelief. –Fr. Maximus …
Jul 4, 2023: the social web is changing in three crucial ways: It’s going from public to private; it’s shifting from growth and engagement, which broadly involves …
Jul 3, 2023: “So while God made you without you, he doesn’t justify you without you.” -St Augustine, Sermon 169, 13
Jul 2, 2023: “I don’t know what’s going to come out of this moment but I do hope more people realize that human connections are still available …
Jul 2, 2023: “File over app is a philosophy: if you want to create digital artifacts that last, they must be files you can control, in formats that are easy …
Jul 2, 2023: Currently reading: Preferring Christ by Norvene Vest 📚 How can we authentically engage St. Benedict’s Rule in a manner that is true to its profound …
Jul 1, 2023: Currently reading: Habitation of Dragons by Keith Miller 📚
Jul 1, 2023: “Acquire the Spirit of Peace, and a thousand souls around you will be saved.” – St. Seraphim of Sarov
Jul 1, 2023: Some people asked me to share what I just shared in a space about the rate limits. I don’t work for Twitter but, I do architect IT cloud …
Jul 1, 2023: Bring back the Zine! We started a zine, and just like it’s 1992 . . . it comes with a sampler cd ! Feature interviews w/ Fine China / Unwed Sailor / …
Jun 29, 2023: Since the English Reformation, Anglican theologians have been keen to retain inherited liturgical practices that do not violate Scripture and have …
Jun 29, 2023: From my drafts folder “on post-truth”: I suspect that UFOs will have increasingly greater reveal by reputable sources in high definition as the …
Jun 29, 2023: Considering that the Holy Eucharist (Holy Mass) has always been the true central point of Catholic worship, we consider it our duty to declare that we …
Jun 29, 2023: Why is it that at this particular historical juncture numerous churches—Catholics and Orthodox largely excepted—have changed eucharistic admission …
Jun 28, 2023: Pentecostals Possess a Passionate, Personal Faith From a statistical perspective, Pentecostals tend to be less “nominal” than other believers. “The …
Jun 28, 2023: ¶ In Cathedral churches or other places, where there is dailie Communion it shall be sufficient to read this exhortacion above written, once in a …
Jun 28, 2023: Inter-Parish Associations promote communication, camaraderie, and cooperation across Orthodox Christian parishes of all jurisdictions in a given …
Jun 28, 2023: Currently reading: Habitation of Dragons by Keith Miller 📚
Jun 27, 2023: free library find: Habitation of Dragons by Keith Miller 📚 got it for the cover font and title and it has interesting quotes throughout! Pascal, …
Jun 26, 2023: Currently reading: An Introduction to F.D.Maurice’s Theology by W. Merlin Davies 📚 In asserting the doctrine of the Atonement, we assert …
Jun 26, 2023: We are in a post-catastrophe world, and yet the catastrophes did not happen. There are worse things than catastrophes. There is the surrender of the …
Jun 26, 2023: “I discovered that intellectual assent does not necessarily lead to personal transformation. People will give intellectual assent to the faith. …
Jun 26, 2023: Metropolitan Jonas laid out three major issues to resolve when he addressed the inaugural ACNA gathering in Plano: Eliminate ordination of women to …
Jun 26, 2023: The modern world suffers from a crisis of loneliness we are told. I believe that much of that crisis is simply the by-product of an information …
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Jun 26, 2023: The recent actions of the fourth Global Anglican Futures Conference (GAFCON), which purport to upend the historic role of the Archbishop of …
Jun 24, 2023: Working on a project–TBA, if ever–that has encouraged me in the Anglican tradition in contrast to the ‘state of the institution.' Feeling …
Jun 23, 2023: “Do not set yourself on fire to keep others warm.”
Jun 23, 2023: “A Form of Penance, Laid Before the Synod by the Archbishop of Canterbury, with his directions for it” (1580) (via anglican_net)
Jun 23, 2023: Our Lord wishes the disciples to be kept in a state of unity by maintaining a likemindedness and an identity of will, being mingled together as it …
Jun 23, 2023: Mainline Protestantism can’t reverse 60 yr decline because its denizens claim no error, blame critics, insist all churches are dying & don’t …
Jun 23, 2023: In a world where men dress up like women and women like men, Christians showing up dressed like Christians is the most surprising thing you can do. – …
Jun 22, 2023: “Let nothing so fill you with sorrow that you forget the joy of Christ risen.” — St. Teresa of Calcutta
Jun 22, 2023: augmented entry 7-13
Jun 22, 2023: Forward in Faith Mission: Forward in Faith North America (FIFNA) is a fellowship of people and churches who embrace the Gospel of Jesus Christ, who …
Jun 21, 2023: What’s the problem that needs to be solved? The myriad examples of baptized folks who live unrepentant wicked lives and treat their baptism …
Jun 21, 2023: Surfaces stacked high in piles, favorite novels displayed across a piano, tiny tomes tucked under an occasional chair, books stacked high enough to …
Jun 21, 2023: It is not a church plant per se, at least not yet, but rather a space for brothers and sisters with a shared love of the Lord Jesus Christ to gather …
Jun 21, 2023: In accordance with Canon 42 of the Sixth Ecumenical Council, provision shall be made in every Church which has received permanent consecration for the …
Jun 21, 2023: The Scriptural and logical arguments for the need of the vernacular in public worship are obvious and overwhelming; only vested interests can pretend …
Jun 20, 2023: The Catholic understanding of priesthood is the sign and the symbol of Christ the Mediator, and thus, the priest is not himself the mediator, but the …
Jun 20, 2023: This great dignity of priesthood has “not been granted (to) the angels,” but only received by the priest. Only the priest is allowed to consecrate the …
Jun 20, 2023: Sarah Morgan, ‘Evening glow" — collagraph. UK printmaker
Jun 20, 2023: ALL churches are a mess right now, doctrinal pure or no. Churches either have problems with beliefs or praxis. Very rare to find a parish healthy in …
Jun 20, 2023: That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, …
Jun 20, 2023: The first signs of Christianity coming to what is now the parish of Beith were through St. Inan who is reputed to have come over from Iona, to which …
Jun 20, 2023: For [the ancient writers] say that in consecration a secret conversion takes place, so that there is now something other than bread and wine… …
Jun 20, 2023: Abel Pann - …And the Lord God sent him forth from the Garden of Eden (Genesis III, 23)
Jun 19, 2023: ‘Night Clocks’ by Lisa Benson
Jun 17, 2023: Everything you need to know about the challenge that we face, and the response to the challenge that we face, at this moment in the life of the …
Jun 16, 2023: Again, when modern Anglicans move on to Rome, they are following through on the logic of their position. They have been taught that they have no …
Jun 16, 2023: Zero was not the right number for ceremonies, but the number should be pretty low. And Cranmer anticipated in “Of ceremonies” that over time more …
Jun 16, 2023: The English reformers hacked away at the medieval ceremonies with a vengeance. Archbishop Cranmer banned all of the Catholic sacramentals—no candles …
Jun 15, 2023: I see emerging trends amid my students that frighten me—eyes fixed on screens, apathy, lack of concern for God’s moral standards, and dwindling church …
Jun 15, 2023: I believe the Anglo-Catholic tradition in today’s context is poised between nihilistic irrelevance and prophetic missional restoration. In the same …
Jun 15, 2023: The post-modern thesis whilst helpful in its challenge has created an eschatological hegemony of fatalism and defeat. Experience says that Anglo …
Jun 15, 2023: Currently reading: The Gift of Being Yourself by David G. Benner 📚 Revelation usually begins by God’s revealing us to ourselves. Only then does God …
Jun 15, 2023: Currently reading: The Gift of Being Yourself by David G. Benner 📚 Too easily we have settled for knowing about God. Too easily our actual …
Jun 15, 2023: After the vote reaffirming the decision to oust Saddleback, Warren said in a YouTube video that he wasn’t surprised and that he made his appeal …
Jun 15, 2023: Of all the Catholic martyrs, 85-year-old Polycarp heads my list of inspirational heroes of the faith. In refusing to burn a pinch of incense to the …
Jun 14, 2023: Currently reading: The Gift of Being Yourself by David G. Benner 📚 there are many false ways of achieving uniqueness. These all result from attempts …
Jun 14, 2023: The blunt truth of the matter is that large churches like Saddleback really don’t need a denomination to thrive. These days denominations generally …
Jun 14, 2023: Gameboy instrumental beat from the Harvest EP #chiptune #gameboy #lsdj pic.twitter.com/ERkyrdBJWM — she🦋 (@shemusic) June 14, 2023
Jun 14, 2023: Currently reading: The Gift of Being Yourself by David G. Benner 📚 We should never be tempted to think that growth in Christlikeness reduces our …
Jun 12, 2023: Green Velvet and Purple Lights at an Open Mic
Jun 12, 2023: One of my favourite passages from Moorman, especially the footnotes: Of yet another type was that remarkable but eccentric Cornish priest, R. S. …
Jun 11, 2023: “For some critics of the Singularity, it is an intellectually dubious attempt to replicate the belief system of organized religion in the …
Jun 10, 2023: We believe that AI is the new printing press and our mission is to help preachers, teachers, creators and church teams leverage AI to exponentially …
Jun 9, 2023: I believe that without such clarity and catholicity in theological method the ‘conservatism’ of, say, ACNA on sexual morality or of a traditional Old …
Jun 9, 2023: We who are Evangelicals recognize the need to address the widespread misunderstanding in our community that sola scriptura (Scripture alone) means …
Jun 9, 2023: The danger of departure from the hermeneutic of the Anglican Reformers has already become clear. The Kigali Commitment promises to “affirm and …
Jun 8, 2023: “The heart rules over the whole human organism” – St Gregory Palamas Palamas includes both the nous and logismoi within “the …
Jun 8, 2023: The situation in the Diocese of the Upper Midwest was, however, a largely internal matter and the complaints about BR largely concerned his …
Jun 8, 2023: IHS with CHALICE ~ by DANIEL MITSUI
Jun 7, 2023: The doctrine of the Holy Trinity is the statement of “a mystery revealed when Christ ascended to his Father, and sent the comforter to dwell among men …
Jun 7, 2023: Currently reading: An Introduction to F.D.Maurice’s Theology by W. Merlin Davies 📚
Jun 7, 2023: Let There Be Light — Jethro Buck
Jun 7, 2023: St Francis — Jethro Buck
Jun 6, 2023: Seraphim Rose
Jun 6, 2023: Confronting “the Machine”: a strategy for Church renewal with Paul Kingsnorth
Jun 6, 2023: It must be troubling for the god who loves you To ponder how much happier you’d be today Had you been able to glimpse your many futures. It must be …
Jun 6, 2023: Fr. Maximos of Mount Athos is quoted extensively on the subject of logismoi in Kyriakos Markides' book, Mountain of Silence. Fr. Maximos describes …
Jun 6, 2023: The truth is that the GAFCON primates have expressly chosen language that shows they are bent on forgetting that there is still great division, …
Jun 6, 2023: The ordination of women has halted Anglican-Roman Catholic negotiations, for now; but if Anglo-Catholics have a place in GAFCON, they could bring …
Jun 5, 2023: “Yet 1552 by itself cannot be our standard because it enjoyed so little time in authority and because we are bound to acknowledge the fact that …
Jun 5, 2023: let us remember that we are fighting for God’s Truth: truth revealed in Holy Scripture; truth more fully shown to us in modern discovery; and …
Jun 5, 2023: Dr Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury from 1928 to 1942, successfully cursed a hotel when a friend complained that it ruined the view at his …
Jun 4, 2023: Trinity Sunday — Athanasian Creed Illustrated by owencyclops
Jun 3, 2023: Think about it: the Psalms present a view of the Christian life that is marked by joy but that also knows sorrow and loss. They set the struggles of …
Jun 3, 2023: 1662 Daily Office at the arena (Ordinariate Divine Worship)
Jun 3, 2023: This long-held sacred principle called the Seal of the Confessional should be upheld whenever possible. However, according to the guidance of many …
Jun 2, 2023: All around us is the image of the skull. We are in a living memento mori. Everything and everywhere ceaselessly depicts for us in word and image the …
Jun 2, 2023: Enjoying that @micro.blog allows one to follow Wordpress and Tumblr accounts. Would enjoy having Substack follow capabiltiy (which is beginning to …
Jun 2, 2023: A Parent’s Prayer from the St Augustine’s Prayer Book
Jun 1, 2023: Rural is the new inner city for church planting Forty years ago if people said they wanted to go serve in Africa, others would slapping them on the …
Jun 1, 2023: one simulated test saw an AI-enabled drone tasked with a SEAD mission to identify and destroy SAM sites, with the final go/no go given by the human. …
Jun 1, 2023: Metal worked peacock doors designed in 1925 by Tiffany for the C.D. Peacock jewelry store, Chicago, Illinois.
Jun 1, 2023: Sorgen, Theodor Severin Kittelsen
Jun 1, 2023: The Future of Work in Church: In person worship gatherings will be more important. The majority of churches in five years will have a non-church …
Jun 1, 2023: Those who are tormented in hell are tormented by the invasion of love. What is there more bitter and violent than the pains of love? Those who feel …
Jun 1, 2023: Unknown
Jun 1, 2023: Whiskey Whiskey don’t mind if I cry Whiskey don’t mind if I hide here a while Whiskey don’t care to hold me in his arms, like he …
Jun 1, 2023: From the composer: It is a combination of the Collect for the Heathen and the Collect for Heretics from the Solemn Collects for Good Friday from the …
May 31, 2023: “Be comforted, small one, in your smallness. He lays no merit on you. Receive and be glad.” – Perelandra, C.S. Lewis
May 31, 2023: What Hemingway Said to Read Arnold Samuelson was a young man who met Hemingway and ended up working on his boat for a year. Hemingway told him to …
May 31, 2023: ‘The West’ has become an idol; some kind of static image of a past that maybe once was but is now inhabited by a new force: the Machine. ‘The West’ …
May 31, 2023: What Is Capitalism Good For? — Agape Lectures Quotes from the talks: “When we see the world as an end in itself, everything becomes itself a …
May 31, 2023: “When we see the world as an end in itself, everything becomes itself a value and consequently loses all value, because only in God is found the …
May 31, 2023: Tatsuya Ishida
May 30, 2023: Local theater having a flashback cinema tonight. 📽 Enter the Dragon (1973)
May 30, 2023: In 541, after the conquest of Antioch, Sassan Emperor Khosrau I built a new city near Ctesiphon for the 30,000 inhabitants he captured, he modelled …
May 30, 2023: there were two distinct flavors of Christianity, both of which I tried to avoid. One was the fusty old Church of England variety. You would see this …
May 29, 2023: For me, the challenge in converting to Judaism from Christianity was convincing myself that, actually, the Pharisees were the good guys in the Gospels …
May 29, 2023: Pentecost Folio 14v of the Rabula Gospels (Florence, Biblioteca Mediceo Laurenziana, cod. Plut. I, 560 (Source)
May 29, 2023: The Slow Poison of Endless Fantasy
May 29, 2023: Was Jesus the focus of our attention? Was the Bible taught well? Was hope offered to hurting people? Did anyone come to faith in Christ? Did church …
May 25, 2023: ChatGPT is a huge boon to the classical Christian world. Why? Because it’s going to force us all to be more classical. For starters, it’s going to …
May 25, 2023: A Letter published in the Trinitarian: As a naive, lay novice to this forum, I was interested by Editor Bruce’s worldly and timely questions …
May 25, 2023: Then there’s that other unwelcome classroom visitor: artificial intelligence. A survey of 1,000 college students by the college ranking website …
May 24, 2023: 1 Corinthians 11.23-29
May 24, 2023: Gerardo Dottori Crocifissione, 1927
May 24, 2023: Satan’s hobby is religion. That’s because his real job is far darker. As a priest, you cannot have reading religious books as your pastime, because …
May 24, 2023: A priest who cannot serve in a parish is like a hammer without a handle. And, if he has no need for you, don’t expect his attention or any favors. He …
May 24, 2023: Thornton summarizing Jeremy Taylor’s Eucharistic ascetic – a basic approach to the Eucharist that we all ought to make accessible for …
May 22, 2023: Dead Reckoning 1947: Internet Archive Inside I’m falling. Like going out the jump door. Hold your breath and just let go. Don’t fight it. …
May 21, 2023: On Thursday Apr. 27, Twitter user Ashley Gjøvik tweeted(opens in a new tab) about Bluesky’s disconcertingly broad terms of service(opens in a …
May 20, 2023: In that reluctance to come to grips with “Classical Anglicanism” (despite protestations to the contrary), the ACNA project remains strongly entangled …
May 20, 2023: the modern English liturgy is clueless about the wedding ring: ‘I give you this ring as a sign of our marriage.’ Whether at a coronation or a wedding, …
May 20, 2023: “Do not grieve if you do not at once receive from God that which you ask. He wishes to benefit you still more by making you persist longer in your …
May 20, 2023: From a series of 37 ink drawings that illustrate a poem about life, death and the afterlife. This image is entitled “In Humble Lamentation of …
May 19, 2023: The main thing Tim wanted to say was always about someone other than him: his mind seemed never to be on himself but rather on his friends, on those …
May 18, 2023: “That which can’t be discussed is dogma.” – 1000yearhouse
May 18, 2023: “Your time is limited. Don’t waste it living someone else’s life” – local church sign
May 18, 2023: Millennials and Gen Zers in my experience care about community and authenticity but largely don’t compromise with outdated, inhumane beliefs, or those …
May 18, 2023: Modern Martyrs On this episode, Thomas D. Williams joins the Mark Bauerlein to discuss his new book, “The Coming Christian Persecution.” …
May 17, 2023: Anglicanism is not confessional. In the United States, Anglicanism has never been confessionally binding like some Reformed and Lutheran churches are. …
May 17, 2023: This depicts Jesus Christ ascending into Heaven. Mary and the Apostles stand around the rock atop Mount Olivet and watch. I framed the scene in a …
May 17, 2023: Julianna Bibor
May 17, 2023: The descent into hell, 1897, by Mikhail Vasilyevich Nesterov
May 16, 2023: First and foremost, stick to the basics. Teach and preach the Bible. Disciple and evangelize. Make sure children and young people are taught and fed. …
May 16, 2023: Buried treasures, 1917, Nicholas Roerich
May 16, 2023: St. Brendan was an Irish monk of the fifth and sixth centuries who made extensive sea journeys to spread the Gospel to the islands around Ireland and …
May 15, 2023: FD Maurice on the 39 articles
May 15, 2023: I would like to call attention to the fact that King Charles’s anointing occurred behind screens. The ancient coronation liturgy adheres to the …
May 14, 2023: There is a reason why the Orthodox do not approve of war but simply look at it as something that may be a lesser evil than the alternative of not …
May 14, 2023: The incensation of the Altar (including the Cross) and Oblation. Source: Latin Mass Society Australia
May 14, 2023: test post
May 14, 2023: Tonight I learned that fresh skunk spray doesn’t smell how I thought it would
May 13, 2023: 🍿Finding Vincent
May 13, 2023: The problem of “role” is faced by many in ministry today. People feel “called” to do one thing, yet find themselves thrust …
May 13, 2023: TikTok Feeds Teens a Diet of Darkness
May 13, 2023: Msgr Jeffrey Steenson, P.A, who also worked on the Anglican Service Book when at Good Shepherd Rosemont Peter Toon Memorial Lecture This lecture …
May 13, 2023: Illustration by Frank C. Papé in the 1926 edition of Thaïs by Anatole France more about Thaïs Thaïs is first briefly described as wealthy and …
May 13, 2023: “… noble, but bare and quiet, without the lofty aspiration of the French Gothic or the devotional intimacy of an Italian chapel … …
May 12, 2023: 🎵Curve — Doppelgänger
May 11, 2023: Where identity was once a result of multiple aspects of life, for some in Silicon Valley, identity, meaning, and even purpose are all being found in …
May 10, 2023: if you’re content to be simply yourself, you will become more than yourself Luke 18:14 The Message
May 10, 2023: 🎵 Listening to m.youtube.com Purity Ring - Better Off Alone (Alice Deejay Cover) - YouTube m.youtube.com Purity Ring - Asido (Official Video) - …
May 8, 2023: orthodoxartsjournal.org The Design of the Anointing Screen for the Coronation of King Charles III
May 7, 2023: Christ’s Descent into Hell (Nicholas Roerich, 1933)
May 7, 2023: In what does this joy consist? It is a hard concept for us, because we live in, and are heavily influenced by, a culture that defines happiness as …
May 7, 2023: J. R. R. Tolkien (1892–1973), Dust jacket design for The Hobbit April 1937, pencil, black ink, watercolor, goache. Bodleian Libraries, MS. Tolkien …
May 7, 2023: American 1928 Revisers keeping the ‘national church can do whatever’ ball rolling. Some selections both of Epistles and Gospels which …
May 7, 2023: Daniel F. Gerhartz
May 7, 2023: We support “right to repair” legislation for consumer products and capital equipment. We believe more ownership means more economic …
May 6, 2023: “There is no such thing as not worshiping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship.” –David Foster Wallace
May 6, 2023: Finally have a hardcopy of the ACNA 2019TLE (albeit riddled with typos) on the way.
May 6, 2023: “To The Night & The Cloud” by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), 1914, Artist : Jessie Bayes (1876-1970)
May 6, 2023: A Sunday service is held at a church in Nagero. Source: ‘Am I going to get out of here alive?’ In one of Africa’s most dangerous …
May 6, 2023: Andrew Wyeth, Full Moon
May 6, 2023: Byzantine Antimension use:
May 6, 2023: Do not trust your mind too much; thinking must be refined by suffering, or it will not stand the test of these cruel times. I do not believe that the …
May 6, 2023: the way that evangelicals think about sex is just slightly off—not doctrinally or biblically, but aesthetically and culturally—and the way they think …
May 5, 2023: Our Lady of the Forest
May 5, 2023: “Often we have prided ourselves since the formation of the Anglican Communion on being delivered from being a national or regional sect when all …
May 4, 2023: “Three Streams” is a phrase that has come to the fore in the last 10 years or so, especially amongst Anglicans in the ACNA and in continuing Anglican …
May 4, 2023: “the three streams approach now adopts select medieval traditions along with Pentecostal experience, one might logically wonder whether what we …
May 4, 2023: Nikiforos Vrettakos It was not my fortune to see the world I dreamt of. And it cost me dearly and pained me, for, without it existing, someone had …
May 3, 2023: The greatest barrier I have met is the almost total absence from the minds of my audience of any sense of sin… The early Christian preachers …
May 2, 2023: OUR LADY, UNDOER of KNOTS DRAWING by DANIEL MITSUI Devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary under the title Undoer of Knots or Untier of Knots is at least …
May 2, 2023: The Protestant movement recalled the 16th century Church to the primacy of the Word—written, read, preached, inwardly digested. The 18th century …
May 2, 2023: Life Cycle of an Online Christian
May 2, 2023: “To share out your soul freely, that is what metanoia (a change of mind, or repentance)really refers to: a mental product of love. A change of mind, …
May 2, 2023: The revival also appears to transcend the normative Anglican tribal divides of ‘High’ and ‘Low’ church. A few church schools have taken to …
May 2, 2023: What goes by the name of work for the vast majority of the members of our society rots the very soul and body. It is work which takes no account …
May 1, 2023: “Give a man a fire and he’ll be warm for a night. Set a man on fire and he’ll be warm for the rest of his life.” - Terry …
May 1, 2023: It it later than you think “Why is the truth, it would seem, revealed to some and not to others? Is there a special organ for receiving …
Apr 30, 2023: “Every lay person is the priest of his or her existence; offering in sacrifice his entire life and existence.” — Paul Evdokimov, Ages of the …
Apr 30, 2023: Pray first for the gift of tears so that by the means of sorrow you may soften your native rudeness. Then having confessed your sins to the Lord you …
Apr 30, 2023: The singing of Psalms quiets the passions and calms the intemperance of the body. Prayer, on the other hand, prepares the mind to put its own powers …
Apr 29, 2023: The Way of Christ: an interpretation of the Rule of St. Benedict for people with jobs and families in the modern world
Apr 29, 2023: “If the world is against the truth, then I am against the world.” —St. Athanasius of Alexandria lifeondoverbeach.wordpress.com
Apr 29, 2023: Like all those who possess libraries, Aurelian felt a nagging sense of guilt at not being acquainted with every volume in his — Jorge Luis Borges, …
Apr 29, 2023: via twitter.com
Apr 29, 2023: “O love that wilt not let me go” by George Matheson, 1882. Illustrated ( via)
Apr 28, 2023: Succinct, wise analogies about the nature of all electronic communication. In my mind, I’m thinking of the difference between online …
Apr 28, 2023: “Nothing dates faster than the cutting edge”
Apr 28, 2023: Impassibility and Aseity by owen cyclops
Apr 27, 2023: “Repentance and contrition come from the encounter with divine glory in the liturgy."
Apr 26, 2023: Roasting success!
Apr 26, 2023: “I don’t find it a problem. What I aim at is to live within a situation and to be totally engrossed in it and yet free from involvement. The …
Nov 30, 2022: if we listen to [the inheritors of the sexual revolution], the outcome has not been polymorphous pleasure but escalating degradation; not female …
Nov 30, 2022: The Baby Boomers, who have provided the lion’s share of our financial and volunteer resources for 40 years, are retiring and dying. Their resources …
Nov 30, 2022: No item of Christian morality is valid only for Christians. […] The foundation is that (Christian morality) is the correct way of “running the human …
Nov 29, 2022: The greatest barrier I have met is the almost total absence from the minds of my audience of any sense of sin… The early Christian preachers could …
Nov 28, 2022: “It was the Consilium, which was charged by the Council Fathers with revising the Easter Vigil liturgy, that effectively anathematized the Jungian …
Nov 23, 2022: “Every lay person is the priest of his or her existence; offering in sacrifice his entire life and existence.”— Paul Evdokimov, Ages of the Spiritual …
Nov 23, 2022: What goes by the name of work for the vast majority of the members of our society rots the very soul and body. It is work which takes no account …
Jul 4, 2021: What would you do with the pretended suicides?’ ‘Whip them, for trifling with and trading upon the feelings of their kind.’ ‘Then you would drive them …
Jun 1, 2021: from The Golden Key, by George MacDonald (Illustration by Craig Yoe, via Amazon Book Preview)
Apr 3, 2021: The Resurrection of Jesus Christ Ivanka Demchuk
Apr 3, 2021: Christ’s Descent into Hell (Nicholas Roerich, 1933)
Feb 8, 2021: “if this plan or this work is of men, it will come to nothing; but if it is of God, you cannot overthrow it—lest you even be found to fight against …
Jan 29, 2021: The Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God in Glory by Insho Domoto
Dec 25, 2020: Linocut by Андрей Алексеевич Ушин (1927 - 2005), 1961.Linocut by Andrey Alexkvich Ushin (Андрей Алексеевич Ушин , Russian, 1927 - 2005), 1961.
Dec 12, 2020: It is a great privilege to be poor, Peter—one that no man ever coveted, and but a very few have sought to retain, but one that yet many have learned …
Apr 23, 2020: Anyone who has worked as a barista for any amount of time at all knows the look. It’s the look on someone’s face who is fragile. Often, a person has …
Apr 18, 2020: Ascension, 1895, Mikhail Nesterov
Apr 18, 2020: Christ Enthroned, the Protaton, Mount-Athos, attributed to Manuel Panselinos, 1290
Apr 17, 2020: “SEVEN TIMES A DAY DO I PRAISE THEE” Ellard. Christian Life and Worship (1946). Illustration by Ade Bethune. via Star of the Sea Books
Apr 16, 2020: “The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister. We can be proud of her beauty, since we have the same …
Apr 15, 2020: artist-redon:Closed Eyes, 1899, Odilon Redon
Apr 15, 2020: Bato Dugarzhapov; Living Water
Apr 15, 2020: St. Clement’s Church, Philadelphia, 2017
Apr 15, 2020: sedagurz:Pieta, 1876; The Madonna of the Lilies, 1899 by William Adolphe Bouguereau
Apr 9, 2020: intheheatherbright:George Macdonald, The Princess and Curdie, illustrated by Will Nickless (London: Collins, no date [1883].
Apr 6, 2020: This is a wise, sane Christian faith: that a man commit himself, his life, and his hopes to God; that God undertakes the special protection of that …
Apr 6, 2020: This is a wise, sane Christian faith: that a man commit himself, his life, and his hopes to God; that God undertakes the special protection of that …
Feb 28, 2020: Minimizing Eastern Customs, Retaining Catholic Practices. (from Feb 2020) Interesting news from the Orthodox Church in South Korea. With the imminent threat of COVID-19, they are recommending modified church customs: For …
Sep 14, 2019: Εὐάγριος ὁ Ποντικός
Sep 13, 2019: Rothchild Canticles
Sep 5, 2019: In his Commentary on Matthew, for example, Origen (ca. 184–253) notes that many of the bishops of his time permitted both divorce and remarriage among …
Jul 16, 2019: One thing is clear to me, that no indulgence of passion destroys the spiritual nature so much as respectable selfishness.George MacDonald
Jul 11, 2019: artist-tissot: Type of Jew, 1889, James TissotMedium: ink,boardhttps://www.wikiart.org/en/james-tissot/type-of-jew-1889-1
Jul 10, 2019: “Afterwards I learned, that the best way to manage some kinds of painful thoughts, is to dare them to do their worst; to let them lie and gnaw at …
Dec 9, 2018: George MacDonald, from “The Complete Poems & Fairytales,” wr. c. 1905
Nov 21, 2018: neovictorian:Sun & Moon by Timbre Sun & Moon is the exploration of an idea: no art exists on its own. Art always influences art. This album …
Nov 11, 2018: “She does not belong by rights to this world at all, but to some other planet, probably Mercury. Her proclivity to her true sphere destroys all the …
Aug 18, 2018: “But, sir, isn’t death a dreadful thing?” asked Malcolm.“That depends on whether a man regards it as his fate or as the will of a perfect God. Its …
Jun 23, 2018: “We are all very anxious to be understood, & it is very hard not to be. But there is one thing much more necessary.’What is that, grandmother?’To …
Jun 17, 2018: Did you know? C.S. Lewis never actually said the line, “You do not have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.” We get a lot of questions about …
Jun 12, 2018: The Great Whore of Babylon, “the mother of prostitutes and abominations of the earth, with her golden cup full of filthiness of her fornication.” —by …
Jun 12, 2018: I don’t deny that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have …
Jun 10, 2018: Noun[vy/vee-uh dol-uh-ro-suh]1. a distressing journey or experience.Origin: From the Latin word via dolōrōsa literally, sorrowful road “There was no …
May 10, 2018: Life is measured by intensity, not by dial, dropping sand or watch. — George MacDonald
Mar 30, 2018: “No words can express how much the world owes to sorrow. Most of the Psalms were born in the wilderness. Most of the Epistles were written in a …
Feb 8, 2018: George MacDonald
Jan 27, 2018: “There is such a thing as a sacred idleness, the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected." –George MacDonald
Jan 16, 2018: “ …Then she carried her to the side of the room. Irene wondered what she was going to do with her, but asked no questions, only starting a little when …
Jan 16, 2018: “Then you must lay your finger, the same that wore the ring, upon the thread, and follow the thread wherever it leads you.”“Oh, how delightful! It …
Jan 1, 2018: Paul Klee, Fairy Tales, 1910
Jan 1, 2018: To be right with God is to be right with the universe; one with the power, the love, the will of the mighty Father, the cherisher of joy, the Lord of …
Dec 19, 2017: The Princess and Curdie by MacDonald, 1927, Dorothy Lathrop
Nov 5, 2017: Institutionalized Christianity has been no stranger to unjustified and evil violence. But at the same time, Christianity in itself makes peace not …
Sep 28, 2017: Afterwards I learned, that the best way to manage some kinds of painful thoughts, is to dare them to do their worst; to let them lie and gnaw at your …
Aug 29, 2017: The Princess and the Goblin illustrations by ejbeachy
Aug 17, 2017: One very wet day, when the mountain was covered with mist which was constantly gathering itself together into raindrops and pouring down on the roofs …
Jun 16, 2017: We wrong those near us in being independent of them. God himself would not be happy without His Son. We ought to lean on each other, giving and …
Jan 22, 2017: All at once he heard the sound of a crunching of bones-not as if a creature was eating them, but as if they were ground by the teeth of rage and …
Jan 6, 2017: Ophelia, William Quiller Orchardson. English (1832 - 1910) Oil on Canvas -
Jan 5, 2017: But it is no use trying to account for things in Fairy Land; and one who travels there soon learns to forget the very idea of doing so, and takes …
Oct 14, 2016: “…though I cannot promise to take you home,“ said North Wind, as she sank nearer and nearer to the tops of the houses, “I can promise you it will be …
Dec 25, 2015: Illustration from “At the Back of the North Wind" by George MacDonald and illustrated by Jessie Wilcox Smith. Published in 1919. From: …
Nov 13, 2015: Sun & Moon by Timbre
Nov 13, 2015: Night Girl: Nycteris Sees the Sun - Timbre Cierpke
Oct 24, 2015: The evening began to grow dark. The autumn wind met us again, colder, stronger, yet more laden with the odours of death and the frosts of the coming …