Anglicanism

The Online State of Nature

Someone is WRONG on the internet
xkcd.com
Why has Internet discourse devolved into a "war of every man against every man"?
By Alan Jacobs
Monday, August 30, 2010

Sometimes our behavior in the “real world” can illuminate the puzzles of online experience.

Anglicanism, Christianity, Church of England, civility, discourse, Internet, religion
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Victorian Conviction, Victorian Tolerance

Sisters of Sinai book jacket
Random House
The Middle Eastern adventures of two remarkable sisters provide an instructive lesson about religious pluralism.
By Kitty Ferguson
Monday, August 9, 2010

“On 13 April 1893, the London Daily News brought an extraordinary story . . .” So begins Janet Soskice’s The Sisters of Sinai, an account of the adventures of Agnes Lewis and Margaret Gibson, two wealthy, indomitable Victorian widows from Cambridge, England. Twin sisters in their late forties, they set out on a private journey to Mt.

Anglicanism, Catholicism, history, Islam, Jerusalem, tolerance
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