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Bishop J.C. Ryle would have been 200 years old today.

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The palm tree in the front yard of the current Casa Wyclif.

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Sharp X1 (1982)

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The Old British Dude Look

The internet is full of photos of mid-century Americans in Brooks Brothers and sprezzed-out Italians, but what about the British? No Man Walks Alone writer William Phips had a nice post yesterday about the various ways you can wear a tweed sport coat. Included was something he called the “Old British Dude” look, where a tweed jacket is combined with a soft Viyella shirt, pair of whipcord trousers, and wool tie. A woven silk tie with dogs or pheasants would also do, he suggests, as old British dudes apparently love their hunting-themed accessories. “Before moving to England, I wasn’t sure anyone really dressed like this, but British country look is indeed alive and well,” he writes.

The post reminded me of this photo series by Allen Warren, an English photographer known for his portraits of people in high society. In the early 1980s, he photographed a bunch of non-royal and royal dukes, some of which he later published in his book The Dukes of Britain. The English peerage system was on a “slow boat to extinction,” he thought, so he worked on documenting the disappearing class.

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Quite a few admirable photos of the kind of library and office decor I should aspire to.

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#anglican #ThomasMerton #GeorgeHerbert

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Illustration from the “Stammbuch David Wirsung”, 1573

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Fog by Jan Kvasnička

Chalice and paten from old Jamestown Church, Virginia (circa 1660).

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The judicial reasoning of most recent and current Supreme Court Justices emerges from one central principle:

“If a law produces, or seems likely to produce, an outcome that right-thinking people deem socially desirable, then that law is ipso facto constitutional; by contrast, if that law produces, or seems likely to produce, an outcome that right-thinking people deem socially undesirable, then that law is ipso facto unconstitutional.”

Antonin Scalia was the most intellectually powerful and eloquent opponent—ever—of that principle, which he believed to be inconsistent with the appointed role of the judiciary and insufficiently respectful of the other branches of government, especially the legislative branch.

Your acceptance or rejection of that principle will probably determine whether you rejoice that Scalia is dead, or lament his departure.

Requiem æternam dona ei, Domine; et lux perpetua luceat ei. Requiescat in pace. Amen. via @ayjay

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I have been hesitant and fearful [in reforming the liturgy], partly because of the weak in faith, who cannot suddenly exchange an old and accustomed order of worship for a new and unusual one, and more so because of the fickle and fastidious spirits who rush in like unclean swine without faith or reason, and who delight only in novelty and tire of it as quickly, when it has worn off. Such people are a nuisance even in other affairs, but in spiritual matters, they are absolutely unbearable. Nonetheless, at the risk of bursting with anger, I must bear with them, unless I want to let the gospel itself be denied to the people.

Martin Luther, An Order of Mass and Communion for the Church at Wittenberg (1523).

“Such people are a nuisance even in other affairs, but in spiritual matters, they are absolutely unbearable.” Ouch. Said with feeling…

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St Moritz Church, Augsburg, Germany.

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If you came this way, Taking any route, starting from anywhere, At any time or at any season, It would always be the same: you would have to put off Sense and notion. You are not here to verify, Instruct yourself, or inform curiosity Or carry report. You are here to kneel Where prayer has been valid. And prayer is more Than an order of words, the conscious occupation Of the praying mind, or the sound of the voice praying. And what the dead had no speech for, when living, They can tell you, being dead: the communication Of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of living. Here, the intersection of the timeless moment Is England and nowhere. Never and always.

T.S. Eliot, Little Gidding. Little Gidding was the site of the religious community founded by Nicholas Ferrar in 1626. Ferrar is also known for publishing George Herbert’s poetry (Herbert left it to Ferrar to decide whether to publish them or to burn them).

Photographs of the chapel at Little Gidding via @revrichardcoles.

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A Lord’s Day without the Lord’s Supper is absolutely unthinkable in the New Testament. Without the Eucharist the Church would have ceased to be church.

Hermann Sasse, “The Lord’s Supper in the New Testament”, in We Confess the Sacraments, p. 88. (via simojoki)

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Galway Cathedral

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Cologne Cathedral, 1945 [Source]

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Some more photos (from here):

As the description at that link notes, “The cathedral suffered fourteen hits by aerial bombs during World War II” - presumably the holes in the roof, especially on the north transept, were the result of some of these impacts.

It seems unclear whether the cathedral survived because the Allied military wanted to preserve this historic building, or because it provided a useful navigational landmark, or just because bombing was too inaccurate to single out a specific target even if they’d wanted to: “It took 108 B-17 bombers, crewed by 1,080 airmen, dropping 648 bombs to guarantee a 96 per cent chance of getting just two hits inside a 400 by 500 feet area (35-40 meters square).”