High Church

The day happened to be Sunday, and it did occur to me that possibly this was the woodpeckers 'ritual, -- a kind of High Church service, with antiphonal choirs.

Birds in the Bush Bradford Torrey 1877

It's been a very long time since I followed Star Trek doings with any attention--I pretty much jumped ship or station once DS9 ended--but this was a welcome distraction from the difficulty of sorting out Catholic, High Church, and whosits* representations of the Elizabethan settlement.

The Little Professor: 2008

And I think if I had been say Canon Liddon at St Paul's at that time, Liddon being a very traditional High Church man; I would have felt obliged to take a bit of a deep breath and say, 'I don't quite know what God was doing in the life of Charles Darwin but I am certainly not going to say it was nothing, and therefore we give him the benefit of the doubt'.

Holy Week: Faith and Science Questions & Answers Session 2008

It's been a very long time since I followed Star Trek doings with any attention--I pretty much jumped ship or station once DS9 ended--but this was a welcome distraction from the difficulty of sorting out Catholic, High Church, and whosits* representations of the Elizabethan settlement.

We interrupt this academic blog for a brief Star Trek comedy moment 2008

This High Church atmosphere can obscure what on reflection is one of Malcolm's chief virtues, her playfulness.

Mixed Media 2007

High Church and Catholic authors argued that Augustine was responsible for converting England; Evangelicals, however, argued that Christianity had already been established--perhaps by St. Paul, perhaps by Joseph of Arimathea.

The Little Professor: 2006

High Church and Catholic authors argued that Augustine was responsible for converting England; Evangelicals, however, argued that Christianity had already been established--perhaps by St. Paul, perhaps by Joseph of Arimathea.

Why Protestantism is "older" than the Roman Catholic Church: A brief excursion into some commonplaces of Victorian Protestantism 2006

It is only necessary to say that the peculiar points insisted upon were exactly those which were most distasteful to the clergy of the diocese and most averse to their practice and opinions, and that all those peculiar habits and privileges which have always been dear to High Church priests, to that party which is now scandalously called the “high and dry church,” were ridiculed, abused, and anathematized.

Barchester Towers 2004

Now Bishop Proudie was by no means a High Church dignitary, and Lady Lufton had never forgiven him for coming into that diocese.

Framley Parsonage 2004

For once High Church and Low Church have united in paying you the greatest compliment you can have paid just at present, viz., in requesting the bishop to give you the living of which you have been more than ten years curate.

Gladys, the Reaper Anne Beale