There’ve been a fair few reactions to the vote of the Church of England’s General Synod to move forward towards the ordination of women as bishops. One of the tendencies I’ve noted in more than the odd report, however, is that this is a liberal development, and one that largely overturns the Church’s tradition. It [...]
Prompted by reading James McGrath’s post (and expanding a comment I left there) I make a brief contribution to the Blog Co-op requested by April DeConick (who I hope will yet respond to being tagged with the Excellent meme).
Tertullian indulges in rhetoric, both in saying “What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?” (Prescription against Heretics [...]
A joyful Christmas to all my readers.
I’ve noted before that one of my favourite carols is Adam lay y-bounden.At the risk of increasing some Protestants’ blood-pressure, here are the words in full:
Adam lay ybounden,Bounden in a bond;Four thousand winterThought he not too long.And all was for an apple,An apple that he took,As clerkës finden writtenIn [...]
