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Another Survey of Search Terms
These search terms are a useful indicator of what readers are interested in. From yesterday, six combinations of my surname and various permutations of “sun” and “orb” were obviously intended to find...
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Evil as the Absence of Empathy
Last night for just under three hours, I watched the film made in around 2000 about the Nuremberg Trials of the leading war criminals in 1945-46. I found the acting brilliant, especially the...
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Three Stephens
We now have a problem of two Stephen K’s! The third Stephen is an “M”, so there is no problem. Our Stephen K in Australia has been contributing highly enlightening comments for some time, and I greatly...
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A New Blog
I have recently come across a new blog under the title of St Mary’s Hollywood: The Cold Case File, run by John Bruce, an erstwhile parishioner at St Mary of the Angels Church in Hollywood during the...
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The Great Meltdown
Update from Sunday 17.55 GMT: Father Stephen Smuts has completed the maintenance work on his blog, and there are new articles. * * * I begin to be quite “alone” as this blog somehow continues to be of...
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Deborah Gyapong and Trashing
She has been bashing this one for a long time, but I have always treated her as a lady and have sometimes tried to “negotiate”. Personally, I am fond of her, but her decreasing tolerance has made me...
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Comment threads and “true church” apologetics
At this point, I’m going to remind readers of a principle on this blog. It’s against the conversation-stopper of “true church” apologetics. It doesn’t belong to this blog. Those who are convinced Roman...
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Of Hecklers and Bores
What makes the quality of a blog? I am not a journalist or a professional in this domain, but I do have a certain amount of hands-on experience over the years. I often have comments from people who...
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Why bother blogging?
I suppose the answer to this one depends on our general attitude to the rest of humanity, whether we believe ourselves to be called to share good things with other people in a spirit of gratuity and...
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Facebook and LinkedIn
Possibly a reader or two has done what is necessary for me to be invited to connect with them on Facebook and LinkedIn. They may think me rude for not obliging. I have an e-mail address...
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Of Rudders, Boats and Churches
It was a great pleasure for me to meet Deacon Jonathan Munn in London last Friday evening and during the day of the Saturday preceding my reception into the ACC. One incredible thing is that people are...
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Blogging Priests
Fr Stephen Smuts has reflected one of my closely-held convictions, that blogging can be a true Christian ministry. He linked to The Anglican Catholic in Priests on the Blogs. We find quotes of Pope...
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EmbryoParson
Update: I have apologised to Caedmon (see comment below) for having identified him with EmbryoParson. I therefore modify this article in consequence. * * * He really does seem to be be passionately...
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Ignorance and Prejudice
Bishop Damien Mead has just written up his experience in As it happened …. The Bishop’s Diary during CRE 2013, as the Anglican Catholic Church in England had a stand on the recent International...
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The Nips are having a field day!
Country Views United States 150 United Kingdom 63 Australia 41 Japan 19 Canada 19 France 10 Ireland 8 South Africa 3 Sweden 2 Spain 1 Portugal 1 Jamaica 1 Switzerland 1 The day is yet young in the...
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A Comment on Commenting
I have more or less followed the long thread of comments on the recent posting I did on Western Orthodoxy. My feelings are mixed. On one side I am grateful for exchanges of information and opinions,...
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Hooked like a Fish!
I remember as a child reading a comic in which a cartoon cat used fishing tackle to catch a mouse. The cat threatens the mouse with great delight – “I’m going to hook you. When I get you, I’ll reel...
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Housekeeping and New Page
There is now an Orthodox Blow-Out Department permanent page on this blog (on the black bar below the dancing Goliards) for the discussion of intra and inter Orthodox questions. Comments can be added to...
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New Blow-Out Departments
I thought I had better set up the pages in case anyone would like to use them. Try to keep it civil and I will only moderate trolls (one sent a really juicy comment yesterday, containing swear words...
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Tuppence a Peek
The old Anglo-Catholic blog has shown a fluttering of life (the first since a posting in January 2013 about traditionalist RC matters) with an article about possibilities for a new and definitive Mass...
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