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T’S THAT Time of year again: July the 17th, or, possibly, the 4th. July 14th, too. Hither and thither you’ll find sundry pious types (mostly RCs and EOs) lamenting the fall of the Russian and French Monarchy – usually with true reports of the atrocities that followed the fall of those kings. The death of [...]

HE ER Epistle for today, (Ephesians 3:8-21) has this extraordinary line in it: …through the church the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known to the principalities and powers in the heavenly places… The traditional reading is to hear “principalities and powers” as something about angels, etc. But the terms, themselves are, exactly, [...]

Inasmuch as the primary object of a government, beyond the mere repression of physical violence, is the making of the rules which determine the property relations of members of society, the dominant classes whose rights are thus to be determined must perforce obtain from the government such rules as are consonant with the larger interests [...]

Continuing in my reverse order – Eucharist to Incarnation to Trinity (like good labyrinth walkers, we will turn around and come out the other way) – we come to Incarnation, now. The complete menu for this series is located in the sidebar, just below the Peace Cross. HE EXPERIENCE of the Early Church was that [...]