Dave Langille
@cdnusboy
Dad, husband & 🇨🇦 Anglican in the Episcopal Church in Minnesota. Resident Alien & International Man of Mystery, tweets Sun-Th. Tweets are mine.
The Anglican tradition, as I have received it: "the absolute priority of the Bible, a catholic loyalty to the sacraments, and a habit of cultural sensitivity and intellectual flexibility." --Rowan Williams
Mary Magdalene went and announced to the disciples, “I have seen the Lord,” and then reported what he told her. -Jn 20:18
Anyone feeling called to the Canadian Arctic? arcticanglicans.ca/2025/07/22/joi…
I've been to Magdala, the home village of Mary Magdalene, twice now. The 1st C. synagogue of Magdala, and its mosaic floor, was recently discovered. As the Gospel tells us: "Jesus went throughout Galilee, teaching in their synagogues". Jesus walked in this very place.
With gratitude for St. Mary Magdalene: for her healing, for her unwavering, for her eyewitness, for her faithful proclamation of the Risen One.
In the 1549 Prayer Book, 22 July was a red letter feast day. This is the Collect that was appointed for "Sainct Mary Magdalene". The Epistle was Proverbs 31:10-31, and the "Gospell" (perpetuating the famous misidentification) was Luke 7:36-50.
The text says Mary Magdalene had 7 demons cast out of her. Rather than this being a disqualification for ministry, this IS her qualification for ministry —Cynthia Briggs Kittredge (my paraphrase from a sermon in chapel many years ago)
Thankful for 10 years of episcopal ministry. Consecrated on the feast of Mary Magdalene with @BishGloucester Icon: Christ is the Good Shepherd and it is His ministry not ours 1Peter 5:5-7 by Revd Charlotte Gibson
Gentle pushback. Protestants historically--as opposed to modern Evangelicals--understood they needed the Fathers, natural law, tradition, and other sources of truth. Scripture alone was *finally* authoritative, not but not the *only* source of truth and authority.
American Protestants don’t need to turn to “ancient communities” for their faith. They only need the Bible. That is enough. It’s all there is, in fact. All the other garbage by cosplaying latter-day Fr. Coughlins and Third World accounts is an anti-American, sectarian op.
Finally got my first physical edition of @TheAnglicanWay in the mail today
Queen Elizabeth, on her visit to the Old North Church in 1976 said, "But perhaps they would have been pleased. Pleased to know that eventually we came together again as free peoples and friends and defended together the very ideals for which the American Revolution was fought".
The New Yorker having a normal one.
Happy Feast of St. Mary Magdalene! In today's beautiful Gospel, the Risen Christ appears first to Mary Magdalene and asks her to tell his other disciples the news of the Resurrection (Jn 20). Thus, in the time between her encounter with Christ and her proclamation to the…
PhDs are very narrow. A PhD historian might be a world expert in C19th Burmese-Thai relations, but have no idea about Alfred the Great. That's not a problem with PhD programmes. It's a problem with primary and secondary schooling, and with basic cultural formation.
I do actually think history PhDs from Britain should know enough about Alfred the Great to answer a vox pop interview
Today’s Gospel reading: Gospel John 20:1-2,11-18 “It was very early on the first day of the week and still dark, when Mary of Magdala came to the tomb. She saw that the stone had been moved away from the tomb and came running to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one…
From the Prayer Book Society of Canada: Today in the Church calendar, we commemorate the life and witness of St. Mary Magdalene. We especially remember in prayer those ministries that bear her name.
He will be missed.
In a few weeks, I will be closing my Twitter account. I reluctantly created social media accounts for my business in 2017, and while these helped me reach new patrons early on, I have concluded that they are no longer worth the time that it takes to maintain them.
Guilty as charged
Trump thinks Canadians ‘nasty’ for avoiding U.S. travel, banning booze: ambassador ctvnews.ca/canada/article…
Many congratulations to Scottie Scheffler on another major victory, his first Open Championship win, and getting ever so close to completing the career grand slam. What most people don’t realise, especially with a lead, is how incredibly tough it is to keep your composure.…
Blackburn, England. School children wave at the camera from 1905. Did they imagine, even for a moment, that we'd gaze across 120 years and wonder about their lives?