Extra Thoughts

The issue of magic has been on my mind a bit lately, partly because of this post by Jeff Culbreath at W4. There are, I'm sure, many rea...

It has been a long time since I've learned of a new (to me) hymn that is actually old, historically--that I like, that is. It turns out ...

Below, I made a comment about Thomas Cranmer. In his response , commentator Alex mentioned in passing that he began to read a biography of C...

A happy 4th of July to all my readers. Here is "Under God" by the Booth Brothers: I used it in this post back in the winter at W4.

This will sound like a shameless ploy to get more comments, but I've decided to post it anyway: I've recently learned of a person wh...

In doing research for my Messiah post, below , I learned about the case , now several years old, of chaplain Michael Hiles. The basic facts ...

For Palm Sunday a few weeks back the epistle reading in the BCP was the famous kenosis passage from Philippians 2: Let this mind be in you, ...

In keeping with the digression in my Messiah post below (on Jesus' words, "If I be lifted up, I will draw all men unto me"), h...

A blessed Trinity Sunday to my readers. Instead of giving you the collect for Trinity Sunday this week, I'm going to give you one of the...

There is a certain type of sermon one hears from time to time that has always bothered me. It goes roughly like this: "The reason the J...

Grant, we beseech thee, Almighty God, that like as we do believe thy only begotten Son our Lord Jesus Christ to have ascended into the heave...

Today is Rogation Sunday. That means that we pray for the farmers and for all those who plant and grow things for the good of mankind. Here ...

The problem of the Israelis and the "Palestinians" is intractable. There is no good solution. And the reason that there is no good...

I've recently been reading a fun but not first-tier mystery novel in which the English folk tune "Bushes and Briars" features....

Unless you find horses boring (and who could possibly find horses boring?), watch this video for refreshment of the spirit. Because things ...

Last year we went through a found-again-lost-again cycle for free, downloadable versions of the album Spirituals by the 1970's Breath o...

(With apologies to E.M. Forster.) There is only one religion that connects the prose and the passion, and that is Christianity. Christianity...

It's difficult to decide which version of this I like best. Posted one by Allan Hall here. Here is Alison Krauss's version from a co...

If you're an Israeli Jew and you have the audacity to try to go and pray at Joseph's tomb without carefully coordinating your visit ...

The Lord Jesus Christ is risen from the dead. Alleluia! Never has there been such joyful news proclaimed throughout the earth, for because H...