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Protestant Episcopalian, Burkean, clerk in holy orders
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"God, as the author of Nature and of Grace, does agree perfectly with Himself" - Benjamin Whichcote
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"God, as the author of Nature and of Grace, does agree perfectly with Himself" - Benjamin Whichcote
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Peter begins chemotherapy today. I would be grateful for your prayers for him.
A joyful account in the Church Times of a renewal of the Syrian Orthodox Christian presence in south-eastern Turkey. These Syrian Orthodox Christians are an encouragement and example for the Quiet Revival in Europe.
November 16, 2025 at 9:10 AM
A joyful account in the Church Times of a renewal of the Syrian Orthodox Christian presence in south-eastern Turkey. These Syrian Orthodox Christians are an encouragement and example for the Quiet Revival in Europe.
"When Supernatural Duties are necessarily exacted, Natural are not rejected as needless. The Law of God therefore is, though principally delivered for instruction in the one, yet fraught with Precepts of the other also."
Richard Hooker
Richard Hooker
November 15, 2025 at 9:39 PM
"When Supernatural Duties are necessarily exacted, Natural are not rejected as needless. The Law of God therefore is, though principally delivered for instruction in the one, yet fraught with Precepts of the other also."
Richard Hooker
Richard Hooker
As I perused the shelves of a friend's bookshop, I came across, and purchased, this gem.
And words from the foreword by RW.
And words from the foreword by RW.
November 15, 2025 at 8:14 PM
As I perused the shelves of a friend's bookshop, I came across, and purchased, this gem.
And words from the foreword by RW.
And words from the foreword by RW.
"The sufficiency of Scripture is not inconsistent, either with prudential government, or the necessary means of finding out the right sense of Scripture."
Archbishop Bramhall, responding to Baxter's 'The Grotian Religion'.
Archbishop Bramhall, responding to Baxter's 'The Grotian Religion'.
November 15, 2025 at 10:11 AM
"The sufficiency of Scripture is not inconsistent, either with prudential government, or the necessary means of finding out the right sense of Scripture."
Archbishop Bramhall, responding to Baxter's 'The Grotian Religion'.
Archbishop Bramhall, responding to Baxter's 'The Grotian Religion'.
"... a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because though a man labour to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea farther; though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it."
Ecclesiastes 8.17
Ecclesiastes 8.17
November 14, 2025 at 6:11 PM
"... a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because though a man labour to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea farther; though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it."
Ecclesiastes 8.17
Ecclesiastes 8.17
Jeremy Taylor in 'Of the Spirit of Grace', Part I, Sermon I, from the second volume of the Golden Grove sermons - the Holy Spirit poured out upon "all who are within the ship and bounds of the catholic church":
November 14, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Jeremy Taylor in 'Of the Spirit of Grace', Part I, Sermon I, from the second volume of the Golden Grove sermons - the Holy Spirit poured out upon "all who are within the ship and bounds of the catholic church":
Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?
Ecclesiastes 7.13
Ecclesiastes 7.13
November 13, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?
Ecclesiastes 7.13
Ecclesiastes 7.13
Jeremy Taylor in 'Of the Spirit of Grace', Part I, Sermon I, from the second volume of the Golden Grove sermons - a beautiful passage on "amiable captivity to the Spirit":
November 13, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Jeremy Taylor in 'Of the Spirit of Grace', Part I, Sermon I, from the second volume of the Golden Grove sermons - a beautiful passage on "amiable captivity to the Spirit":
For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also divers vanities: but fear thou God.
Ecclesiastes 5.7
Ecclesiastes 5.7
November 12, 2025 at 8:07 PM
For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also divers vanities: but fear thou God.
Ecclesiastes 5.7
Ecclesiastes 5.7
Jeremy Taylor in 'Of the Spirit of Grace', Part I, Sermon I, from the second volume of the Golden Grove sermons - theosis, sacraments, and life in the Spirit, "articles of so mysterious a philosophy":
November 12, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Jeremy Taylor in 'Of the Spirit of Grace', Part I, Sermon I, from the second volume of the Golden Grove sermons - theosis, sacraments, and life in the Spirit, "articles of so mysterious a philosophy":
"We must not therefore expect him to give us clear answers if we constantly ask him what things are divine and what things ‘merely human’. The word 'merely' conceals precisely the point of view which Hooker declines" - CS Lewis on Hooker's 'Lawes'.
November 11, 2025 at 3:39 PM
"We must not therefore expect him to give us clear answers if we constantly ask him what things are divine and what things ‘merely human’. The word 'merely' conceals precisely the point of view which Hooker declines" - CS Lewis on Hooker's 'Lawes'.
Jeremy Taylor in 'Of the Spirit of Grace', Part I, Sermon I, from the second volume of the Golden Grove sermons - on the "glorious mysteries" of the Gospel given "by the immediate inspirations of the Spirit":
November 11, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Jeremy Taylor in 'Of the Spirit of Grace', Part I, Sermon I, from the second volume of the Golden Grove sermons - on the "glorious mysteries" of the Gospel given "by the immediate inspirations of the Spirit":
Harriet Backer, 'Churching, the Sacristy in Tanum Church' (1892). Den norske kirke 🇳🇴
November 10, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Harriet Backer, 'Churching, the Sacristy in Tanum Church' (1892). Den norske kirke 🇳🇴
For the evening of this Remembrance Sunday, James Nares 'The Souls of the Righteous' (1734) - an elegant example of the 18th century Anglican choral tradition and of the place of the Apocrypha in Anglican piety.
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Nares: The Souls of the Righteous
YouTube video by The Choir of St John’s Cambridge - Topic
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November 9, 2025 at 7:49 PM
For the evening of this Remembrance Sunday, James Nares 'The Souls of the Righteous' (1734) - an elegant example of the 18th century Anglican choral tradition and of the place of the Apocrypha in Anglican piety.
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A very fine use of the Apocrypha on a war memorial (in St Giles, Sheldon, Birmingham). There are a few examples of this use of 1 Maccabees 3.59 on memorials to the fallen of the Great War.
"... for example of life and instruction of manners"
"... for example of life and instruction of manners"
November 9, 2025 at 1:16 PM
A very fine use of the Apocrypha on a war memorial (in St Giles, Sheldon, Birmingham). There are a few examples of this use of 1 Maccabees 3.59 on memorials to the fallen of the Great War.
"... for example of life and instruction of manners"
"... for example of life and instruction of manners"
On this Remembrance Sunday, the 9th day of the month, Ps.46 was among the psalms at Morning Prayer: "He maketh wars to cease in all the world".
From Jeremy Taylor's prayer accompanying this psalm, echoing his experience as a chaplain to Royalist forces during the Civil War:
From Jeremy Taylor's prayer accompanying this psalm, echoing his experience as a chaplain to Royalist forces during the Civil War:
November 9, 2025 at 8:34 AM
On this Remembrance Sunday, the 9th day of the month, Ps.46 was among the psalms at Morning Prayer: "He maketh wars to cease in all the world".
From Jeremy Taylor's prayer accompanying this psalm, echoing his experience as a chaplain to Royalist forces during the Civil War:
From Jeremy Taylor's prayer accompanying this psalm, echoing his experience as a chaplain to Royalist forces during the Civil War:
In 'Our Church', Roger Scruton refers to "the influence of Cranmer on Lawrence Binyon, whose poem 'For the Fallen' ... now occupies a more or less official place in Anglican liturgy", addressing "the need to face up to a slaughter so vast and so senseless".
November 8, 2025 at 10:00 PM
In 'Our Church', Roger Scruton refers to "the influence of Cranmer on Lawrence Binyon, whose poem 'For the Fallen' ... now occupies a more or less official place in Anglican liturgy", addressing "the need to face up to a slaughter so vast and so senseless".
The eve of Remembrance Sunday at The Middle Church, in the heart of Jeremy Taylor country. Amidst the bare trees, some autumnal colour remains. An echo of the poppies in Flanders fields.
November 8, 2025 at 10:05 AM
The eve of Remembrance Sunday at The Middle Church, in the heart of Jeremy Taylor country. Amidst the bare trees, some autumnal colour remains. An echo of the poppies in Flanders fields.
Bishop Bramhall responding to Richard Baxter's defence (in 'The Grotian Religion') of the removal of Episcopalian clergy from their parishes in the 1640s:
"Dominion is founded in Nature, not in Grace. Nothing is more hidden than true Grace: we understand it not certainly in 1/3
"Dominion is founded in Nature, not in Grace. Nothing is more hidden than true Grace: we understand it not certainly in 1/3
November 8, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Bishop Bramhall responding to Richard Baxter's defence (in 'The Grotian Religion') of the removal of Episcopalian clergy from their parishes in the 1640s:
"Dominion is founded in Nature, not in Grace. Nothing is more hidden than true Grace: we understand it not certainly in 1/3
"Dominion is founded in Nature, not in Grace. Nothing is more hidden than true Grace: we understand it not certainly in 1/3
Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so doth the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel.
Proverbs 27.9
Proverbs 27.9
November 7, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so doth the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel.
Proverbs 27.9
Proverbs 27.9
"The fact that they [Royal Mail] seek out the expertise of someone from a Faculty of Theology and Religion shows how seriously they take the design of their stamps" - Professor Andrew Davison on the newly-released Royal Mail Christmas stamps.
November 7, 2025 at 1:44 PM
"The fact that they [Royal Mail] seek out the expertise of someone from a Faculty of Theology and Religion shows how seriously they take the design of their stamps" - Professor Andrew Davison on the newly-released Royal Mail Christmas stamps.
Two touching examples from CofI village churches of the significance and resonance of Remembrancetide.
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Remembrance Day: Cascades of poppies at Ahoghill and Richhill churches
Displays of military uniforms, diaries and medals are among the ways Ahoghill and Richhill are marking Remembrance Day.
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November 7, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Two touching examples from CofI village churches of the significance and resonance of Remembrancetide.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Other work by the Ladybird artists
‘Autumn scene’
Artist: Ronald Lampitt
‘Autumn scene’
Artist: Ronald Lampitt
November 4, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Other work by the Ladybird artists
‘Autumn scene’
Artist: Ronald Lampitt
‘Autumn scene’
Artist: Ronald Lampitt
From the Barnabas Aid prayer diary for this day - a sobering reminder of the realities of IS persecution of Christians in this region. The lack of outrage at and condemnation of this ongoing violence is a profound failure on the part of Churches in the West.
November 6, 2025 at 7:37 AM
From the Barnabas Aid prayer diary for this day - a sobering reminder of the realities of IS persecution of Christians in this region. The lack of outrage at and condemnation of this ongoing violence is a profound failure on the part of Churches in the West.
Jeremy Taylor in the Dedication of the second volume of his Golden Grove sermons - on how sermons are to be received and reflected upon:
November 6, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Jeremy Taylor in the Dedication of the second volume of his Golden Grove sermons - on how sermons are to be received and reflected upon: