Posted by Fr Guy Hawtin, on January 17th, 2021
Oscar Wilde famously declared that hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue. And nowhere is the truth of his observation more evident than in our politically correct elite’s unceasing demands for America’s Christian majority to show “tolerance” towards religious minorities.
What this means in practice is the complete suppression of public Christian and . . . → Read More: From the Rector: Lessons in tolerance for ‘the Ministers of Truth’
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Posted by Fr Guy Hawtin, on January 16th, 2021
Karl Marx, it seems, has been adopted as the political philosopher of choice for the nation’s self-anointed intellectual elite. This is rather odd. Few of them qualify as proletarian. Most of them are obviously members of the bourgeoisie—a class Marx utterly despised.
But just because people claim to be Marxists doesn’t mean that they . . . → Read More: From the Rector: When it comes to Marxism, old Karl has the final say
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Posted by Fr Guy Hawtin, on January 15th, 2021
An Englishman’s home, it seems, is no longer his castle. Apparently, Britons can now be prosecuted for politically incorrect thoughts expressed in the privacy of their living rooms.News of this will make visiting the land of my birth a decidedly uncomfortable experience. It’s not that I habitually utter politically incorrect ideas, but I would . . . → Read More: From the Rector: Who keeps watch on the government watchdogs?
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Posted by Fr Guy Hawtin, on January 14th, 2021
What gives God the right to pass judgement on us?
There’s no denying the fact that God is decidedly “judgmental ”—one of the worst sins it’s possible to commit these days. And this probably explains why God and his Church are so unpopular with the folks pompously known as our “cognitive elite”—the folks who . . . → Read More: From the Rector: What gives God the right to pass judgement on us?
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Posted by Fr Guy Hawtin, on January 13th, 2021
The incompetent narcissists who produce America’s mainstream media have for decades been betraying both the nation and their shareholders—a fact that has been made manifest in the media’s coverage of the run up to the 2020 Presidential Election.
Indeed, it should be clear—beyond all doubt—that it is the media that is primarily responsible for . . . → Read More: From the Rector: How media betrays the nation and its investors
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Posted by Fr Guy Hawtin, on December 10th, 2020
If Thanksgiving was anything to go by, this year we will not be celebrating the Nativity Of our Lord Jesus Christ in the traditional manner but in a style more calculated to appeal to Ebenezer Scrooge, the miserly protagonist in Charles Dickens’ novel A Christmas Carol.
To be sure, the watch words are unlikely . . . → Read More: Here are our plans for a very merry Christmas
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Posted by Fr Guy Hawtin, on July 29th, 2020
Dr. Gregory Wm. Branch, Health Officer for Baltimore County, has promulgated the following edict: “Beginning Thursday, July 23 at 9:00 AM, Baltimore County individuals ages 2 and up are required to wear face coverings in any indoor business, service, organization or establishment that serves the general public. This includes, but is not limited to, retail . . . → Read More: New County rules on COVID19
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Posted by Fr Guy Hawtin, on July 24th, 2020
By human standards, scribes and Pharisees get a really bum rap in the Gospels. Whenever Jesus encounters them he either makes fun of them or he dresses them down, calling them rude names. Yet by human standards, they were quite admirable people.
They lived very active religious lives. Most of them went to church morning . . . → Read More: To err is human; to forgive ought to be human too
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Posted by Fr Guy Hawtin, on July 17th, 2020
There’s no getting away from it: a lot of God’s ideas seem really off the wall. How about these instructions from the Sermon on the Mount: “Do not resist one who is evil. But if anyone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also; and if anyone would sue you . . . → Read More: Coming to accept God’s utterly impractical ideas
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Posted by Fr Guy Hawtin, on July 2nd, 2020
The vestry met on June 17th—its first meeting since the Corona Virus restrictions were imposed in March this year. The item at the top of the agenda was the manner in which the church should reopen with the gradual lifting of the lock down.
Being Anglicans, there were at least two school of thought. One . . . → Read More: The Vestry debates how to handle the Corona Virus
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