The Anglican Parson
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Making my way the only way I know how.
The word for today is phronesis. It is also the need of the day. Every day, really.
December 19, 2024 at 12:50 AM
The word for today is phronesis. It is also the need of the day. Every day, really.
“The way of learning and inquiry is none other than to seek one’s lost heart.” —Mencius (Mengzi)
December 17, 2024 at 11:08 AM
“The way of learning and inquiry is none other than to seek one’s lost heart.” —Mencius (Mengzi)
In my church we pray this week that God’s ministers will be used to turn the hearts of the disobedient to “the wisdom of the just.” May we all be on that quest to find this Wisdom.
December 16, 2024 at 11:07 PM
In my church we pray this week that God’s ministers will be used to turn the hearts of the disobedient to “the wisdom of the just.” May we all be on that quest to find this Wisdom.
Pasteurization is a good thing. A really, really, really good thing.
December 6, 2024 at 1:09 AM
Pasteurization is a good thing. A really, really, really good thing.
Learn history deeply and well if you want to understand just how illogical the world can be sometimes.
November 30, 2024 at 1:30 PM
Learn history deeply and well if you want to understand just how illogical the world can be sometimes.
“Posterity! you will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in Heaven that I ever took half the pains to preserve it.”—John Adams in a letter to Abigail Adams, 1777
November 29, 2024 at 9:47 PM
“Posterity! you will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in Heaven that I ever took half the pains to preserve it.”—John Adams in a letter to Abigail Adams, 1777
I maintain the position that Pluto is a planet.
November 29, 2024 at 4:13 AM
I maintain the position that Pluto is a planet.
“The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly they seek it while conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come.” CS Lewis, “Learning in Wartime”
November 20, 2024 at 1:12 AM
“The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly they seek it while conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come.” CS Lewis, “Learning in Wartime”
Working my way through Willa Cather’s novels.
This line from O Pioneers! sticks with me: “there are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before...”
Maybe it is not literally true, but it seems to be true enough.
This line from O Pioneers! sticks with me: “there are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before...”
Maybe it is not literally true, but it seems to be true enough.
November 17, 2024 at 7:48 PM
Working my way through Willa Cather’s novels.
This line from O Pioneers! sticks with me: “there are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before...”
Maybe it is not literally true, but it seems to be true enough.
This line from O Pioneers! sticks with me: “there are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before...”
Maybe it is not literally true, but it seems to be true enough.
Some encouragment by way of Ben Franklin’s The Morals of Chess, wherein “we learn by chess the habit of not being discouraged by present bad appearances in the state of our affairs, the habit of hoping for a favorable change, and that of persevering in the search of resources.”
November 16, 2024 at 5:09 PM
Some encouragment by way of Ben Franklin’s The Morals of Chess, wherein “we learn by chess the habit of not being discouraged by present bad appearances in the state of our affairs, the habit of hoping for a favorable change, and that of persevering in the search of resources.”
Hello, world!
November 16, 2024 at 12:57 PM
Hello, world!