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Protestant Episcopalian - Burkean - clerk in holy orders. 'God, as the author of Nature and of Grace, does agree perfectly with Himself' - Benjamin Whichcote
Thank you to those who have been praying for Peter. He is now recovering well after surgery. I would be grateful for your ongoing prayers as his treatment continues.
I would be grateful for your prayers for my brother-in-law Peter, recently diagnosed with cancer, with surgery scheduled for early June. He is a faithful priest and pastor in the CofI.
"We do not merely study the past, we inherit it, and inheritance brings with it not only the rights of ownership, but the duties of trusteeship. Things fought for and died for should not be idly squandered. For they are the property of others, who are not yet born"
Some great insights into the 1950 General Election in this episode. And here is that notable Conservative and Unionist election poster:
🚨 NEW PODCAST: The 1950 General Election Part two of our series on the Attlee vs Churchill elections is now out. @richardmarcj and I discuss 1950 - the referendum on what Attlee did as PM, and the chance for Churchill to reclaim power after defeat in 1945. See next tweet.
Excellent thoughts from Kara Slade on the Nicene Creed, but then there is the suggestion from elsewhere on "the Trinity as community and ... a model for who we are together". I don't usually quote Barth, but he provides the needed response: NEIN! episcopalnewsservice.org/2025/07/21/cou…
![cath_cov's tweet card. [Episcopal News Service] When some 200 bishops and the hundreds of others who accompanied them arrived at the town of Nicaea in modern-day Turkey in 325, they had before them two tasks: define Jesu…](https://pbs.twimg.com/card_img/1947372136571490305/Yj2D5037?format=jpg&name=orig)
Our greatest land battle: the Battle of the Plains of Abraham, 13th September 1759. A crucial victory in the Seven Years' War, capturing Quebec, expelling the French from North America, and creating loyal colonies that would, in time, become Canada. Part of the Annus Mirabilis.
What is Britain's greatest Battle? On Sea (and overall) it's undoubtedly Trafalgar. On air, it's the Battle of Britain. On land? It's trickier. The Army Museum voted for Imphal & Khomia. Most Britons would probably pick Waterloo. I'm personally tempted by the Battle of Amiens.
Morning Prayer (Rite I) at Old Trinity, Dorchester Parish.
The Church is not a world-improvement society -- rather it is dedicated to a new and heavenly life -- fishing us out of the sea of our worldliness, and bringing us safe to that homeland which is nothing short of God himself. --Robert Crouse
Now this is beautiful. Look at the Confirmation page in the BCP, worn from all his travels to parishes throughout North Carolina
Inasmuch as there are solid British values beyond the bland amorphous ones often deployed, fairness, politeness and courtesy rank highly.
The most Anglican of Prayer Book collects: Peaceably ordered by God's governance, the Church joyfully serves in godly quietness.
From the 1689 Liturgy of Comprehension, a proposed replacement for the collect of Trinity V. Based on the epistle of the day, it is a lovely prayer, appropriate for use at any time in Trinitytide.
Jeremy Taylor in 'Holy Living': "When the word of God is read or preached to you, be sure you be of a ready heart and mind, free from worldly cares and thoughts, diligent to hear, careful to mark, studious to remember, and desirous to practise all that is commanded".
“To Enjoy the Fruits of Victory” 1944 - poster for National Savings Group by Rowland Hilder