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A key moment in the 1956 🇭🇺 uprising against the Communist dictatorship, as former PM - but still a Communist - Nagy addresses a crowd of 175,000 in Budapest's Parliament Square:

On this Transfiguration of our Lord, the 2nd lesson at Morning Prayer is 2 Corinthians 3, concluding with the Apostle declaring "we all ... are changed into the same image from glory to glory".

In his commentary on the passage, Calvin describes "this restoration":

On this 111th anniversary of the United Kingdom declaring war on Germany, I visit the grave of my great-grandmother's brother. A young Belfast man who fought for King and Country, his mortal remains rest here in Hauts-de-France, until the general resurrection in the last day.

Omitting readings from the Apocrypha: a low church, Latitudinarian rupture with 1662? In revising the Table of Lessons, we have judged it convenient to follow generally the new Table which the Church of England has lately adop...

When the Irish Prayer Book revision of 1878, following PECUSA 1789, omitted readings from the Apocrypha from the lectionary, was this low church and Latitudinarian?
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Words from Jeremy Taylor's sermon 'The Marriage Ring':

"Here is the proper scene of piety and patience, of the duty of parents, and the charity of relatives; here kindness is spread abroad, and love is united and made firm as a centre. Marriage is the nursery of heaven".

Lammas Day in Jeremy Taylor country.

At Morning Prayer on Lammas Day, with late Summer, Autumn days, and Harvest Thanksgiving all before us - "send thy blessing down from heaven to give us a fruitful season":

Dozens massacred by terrorists at DRC church during night vigil Killings carried out by group linked to Islamic State, says UN

How easily we overlook the fact that the martyrdom of Christians is routinely happening in parts of Africa. While this happens, European and North American churches act as if our concerns should define Christianity in the current age.
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The Atlantic Theological Conference The website for all updates and online registration for the annual Atlantic Theological Conference.

Indeed. I have a few friends in the ACofC whose witness and ministries are signs of hope. As is the Atlantic Theological Conference.
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The introduction ends by noting that between 1900 and 1914, Budapest was the fastest growing city in Europe.

Then came the catastrophe:

The words of the great Metternich powerfully begin Sebestyen's excellent history of Budapest:

A very good question!

Nonconformists.

The Middle Church also features in the book's conclusion, pointing to the continuity between the Jacobean Church of the Plantation and the Restoration CofI (p.137).

A marvellous little book suggestive of the character of the Jacobean CofI.

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a Scottish landlord whose plain churches reflected Scottish practices but who yet provided the BCP for his churches.

Bishop Leslie of Down and Connor also pointed to another characteristic of the Jacobean and Caroline CofI: local congregations had both conformists and 3/4

Plantation: they were part of Reformed Europe.

"The Ulster Plantation brought together lords and craftsmen from all three kingdoms of the British Isles" (p.112) - this contributed to the particular character of the Jacobean CofI.

We can see this also in Sir Hugh Montgomery, 2/4

"It may have been modest but the churches [of the Plantation of Ulster] do represent an achievement of a sort. The first thing to be acknowledged is that it was part ... of the Protestant Reformation across Europe" (p.111) - a key point about the churches of the 1/4

And then there is this shameful statement. Then again, if you have nothing distinctively Christian to proclaim, it has the merit of being accurate:

‘Glory days of Anglicanism are in the past’: Church’s new leader outlines vision for future The Anglican Church of Canada’s new leader spoke with Canadian Affairs about his goals for the organization amidst concerning trends

A deeply depressing interview with the new Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada. The article notes the staggering decline of the ACofC. All the Primate offers, however, is more of the same - nothing distinctively Christian, merely reheated mush:
www.canadianaffairs.news/2025/07/27/g...

I have been noticing a few references to 🐝 🐝 in Jeremy Taylor's sermons:

"God is pleased to glorify himself. For if God is glorified in the Sun and Moon, in the rare fabric of the honeycombs, in the discipline of Bees ..."

This 1615 example of how The Honourable The Irish Society (a consortium of livery companies of the City of London) provided for churches in the Plantation of Ulster gives an insight into the character of the Jacobean CofI (p.55 - note, no mention of the surplice):

On this anniversary of the ending of the Korean War in 1953, the memorial in Belfast to Northern Irish regiments who served in the defence of the Republic of Korea.

Trinitarian Dissenters. For example, the 1708 Saybrook Platform - the constitution of Congregationalism in Connecticut - explictly stated acceptance of the "doctrinal part" of Articles of Religion.

An interesting aspect of the respectful relationship between the 18thC CofE and 'old Dissent' was that Dissenting ministers subscribed, under the Toleration Act, to the Articles of Religion (excepting 34, 35, and 36, and part of 20). This reflected a wider recognition of the Articles by 1/2

thou art bound to be present) accept the word preached as a message from God, and the Minister as his Angel in that ministration".

Jeremy Taylor in 'Holy Living':

"Let not a prejudice to any man's person hinder thee from receiving good by his doctrine, if it be according to godliness: but (if occasion offer it, or especially if duty present it to thee; that is, if it be preached in that assembly where 1/2

The day after I photographed the psalms in the Gaelic translation of the Book of Common Prayer in Stonehaven, I saw this in Inverness Museum. It's a metrical psalter in Gaelic, the psalms adapted into rhyming couplets to make them easier to learn and so they could be chanted while marching. 1/2

Church of England*

An interesting example from 1622, in the Plantation of Ulster, of parishioners rejecting a landlord's attempt to build a new church, when the parishioners desired "to re-edify ... their ancient parish church" (p.44):

At Morning Prayer of Saint James the Apostle, the second lesson was Luke 9.51-56, James and John seeking to call down fire from heaven upon the Samaritan village.

In a sermon addressing the "zealous prosecution of mistakes in religion", Tillotson invoked this passage:

Small windows would have been cheaper. And probably more secure if the Ottomans were about ...