Anglican Priest, School Chaplain, Chestertonian ⚓️ I wrote 'The Proverbs of Middle-earth' (link below) & paraphrase Psalms. Happy to pray for you. DMs open.
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I believe that investing in expeditionary education would go a long way to reversing the adult adolescence and failure to launch phenomenon. I was already 20 the first time I sailed across the equator, but it was common for boys to start sailing at 11 only 200 years ago.
Young teenage apprentices, homestead settlers and longhunters (Daniel Boone was already recognized as one of the best frontier hunters in the Appalachian region by the time he was 15), surveyors, ranch hands, etc. were fairly normal. Young people need adventure, training, and purpose; keeping them perpetually sequestered in safe and predictable environments is no way to prepare a generation of capable and intrepid young adults.
I reiterate my proposal for a fleet of private boarding schools that are just tall ships, and the boys' school year consists of harrowing voyages around the globe learning music, classical literature, mathematics, astronomy, and navigation along the way.
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What stirred (and confused) me was the contrast between these ancient and lofty ideals and the reality of modern politics. Hoards of people in the political industry (plus visiting dignitaries, etc.) pass these images all the time, but see them as little more than wallpaper.
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I came away full of questions of national identity and personal: Who are we? Who should we be? Who do I want to be?
And that's very much the same effect I've received working my way through Galahad and the Grail. Yes it's a story, but it's also an invitation.
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Galway Kinnell said, 'sometimes it is necessary to reteach a thing its loveliness'. I think @malcolmguite is doing something similar with his invitation to 'take up the tale' – to retell to Britain something of its ancient loveliness; that we may stop ignoring the wallpaper.
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Two things:
i. Yes, it's really good.
ii. I visited the Houses of Parliament for the first time this summer; the room which stirred me most was the Robing Room: the Arthurian frescoes depict the chivalric virtues of hospitality, generosity, mercy, religion, and courtesy.
Totally lost in a world of beauty, marvel and chivalry.
You, Sire @malcolmguite , are a Master.
How is such a book even possible today?
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Today is a good day to get that old beloved book down from the shelf and have a gentle reread.
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A mouse got in my Cheerios
But why? Nobody really knows.
Maybe each rodent child devotes
His hopes to tasting circled oats?
Or maybe this mouse just got lost
In search of somewhere warm and soft?
But an edible bed fulfilled all criteria,
Except that it disturbed Olivia.
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David Rowe retweeted
My totally objectively correct rating of Bible translations:
1. RSV
2. KJV
3. REB
4. NIV1984
5. Good News
6. Living Bible or NLT
7. NKJV
8. ESV
[I'm not familiar enough with the NASB, CSB, or NET to have an opinion, and I dislike the NRSV, Amplified, and Jerusalem.]
The objectively correct rating of Bible translations:
1. NKJV
2. NLT
3. REB/CEB
4. KJV
5. NRSV/NRSVue
6. NASB/NIV
7. ESV
8. The Message
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This is quietly magnificent, and yet the present network is only a remnant of the pre-Beeching glory days.
Milos
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David Rowe retweeted
I find it absolutely delightful that Frodo's idea of getting away from Bree ‘as early as possible' means having breakfast at 6:30am. It's almost as if he's never done a day's work in his life.
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David Rowe retweeted
One of those organizations is trying very hard to force its religion on the American people through public policy and the other is the Vatican.
Note well, apparently Anthropic tried very hard to get the Vatican to alter the text of "Magnifica Humanitas" just prior to its release so that it would not deny AI personhood.
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David Rowe retweeted
Have you ever seen an angel?
6%
Yes!
19%
I think so/maybe
68%
Nope
7%
Other
435 votes • Final results
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Going with my gut:
Anglicanism is red & white
Catholicism is dark blue & gold (@Jeremyakee)
Baptists are light blue
Lutherans are yellow & white
Presbyterianism is blue & white
Methodism is washed-out red, almost pink
EO is smoky burgundy with tassles
OO is black & gold
Anglicanism is red.
Catholicism is white.
Orthodoxy is black.
Baptist-ism(?) is brown.
Lutheranism is green.
Presbyterianism is blue.
Methodism is pink / rainbow 😏
This is objectively true.
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