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I have just this week learned of the existence of Ian Douglas Smith, former Prime Minister of Rhodesia. I heard of him, because he died on N...

For a Thanksgiving post, I can do no better than to quote the Book of Common Prayer. Almighty God, Father of all mercies, we, thine unworthy...

I apologize to my kind readers for having not updated here for a couple of weeks. I did post at What's Wrong with the World on a couple ...

And a blessed Feast of All Saints and following octave thereof to all of you out there in readerland. One of our autumn traditions around he...

Some readers have mentioned that I should provide links to the music for the hymns I discuss. Unfortunately, many of them appear to be found...

I dunno. Some people seem a bit worked up about the Armenian genocide resolution. Even some conservatives. (Read that in the philosophers...

In case this burning question was ever bothering you, I thought I'd post the answer here. We have been doing some research on this here ...

I won't post the whole thing here. Done that here at W4, as my colleagues are taking to calling it. The basic gist is that this techniq...

This hymn of the week is another of those "darned if you do/darned if you don't" things. As a very low-church-sympathizing Ang...

I've always liked this guy .

C.S. Lewis said various things to the effect that we will actually love the things of this world more when we learn not to grasp at them. I ...

We went kite flying today. Down to a big field known in our family as "the kite field," next to a local public school. There was a...

I don't want to do too much about foreign policy on this blog. As I said in an e-mail to a friend lately, too much of a focus on foreig...

Here . I'm feeling more political than liturgical this week, and this got my dander up, so all two of you who come here can follow the l...

It occurs to me that all of you poor folks out there who have emasculated hymnals probably don't have this one. Perhaps it's better ...

I've decided to call it "collect for the week" when I'm fudgin'. This one is all the way back from Easter IV: O Almig...

William Cowper (pronounced "Cooper") was a late 18th century Christian poet who suffered from madness at recurrent intervals. He ...

I don't have to argue with myself about whether to have the "collect of the week" this week be the real collect of the week. ...

Whether I can keep up a "hymn of the week" feature every Saturday or Sunday remains to be seen, but for this week I'm talking ...

So now that I've started this so late in Trinitytide, I'll have to throw in some extra posts on collects to bring in some of the bes...