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from Conciliar Post
On Christmas Day in the year 800 CE, the Roman Empire was proclaimed to be reborn. The Frankish king Charlemagne, a fierce conqueror and the ruler of most of western Europe, had travelled to Rome, and there Pope Leo III declared him Roman emperor, his collection of loosely controlled lands being dubbed the Holy Roman Empire. The coronation was questionable for a number of reasons, not the least of which was the fact that Charlemagne’s so-called empire had very little to do with the old Roman Empire, the western half of which had fallen centuries earlier. After all, Charlemagne belonged to the “barbarian” Franks. Nevertheless, the crowned emperor strove for a splendour befitting a revived Rome. The city of Aachen, the royal and cultural centre of the empire, was made into a hub of learning, with the beloved scholar Alcuin of York giving a classical education. As promising as the future may have seemed to Charlemagne on that fateful Christmas Day, some grim realities awaited him and his empire. His power waned significantly during his final years, and matters grew worse during and after the reign of his son Louis. The empire was weakened by civil war and enemy invasions, and eventually it was divided in three. Just a little over a century after his coronation, none of Charlemagne’s descendants were in power. The days of Alcuin were long gone; dreams of a reborn Rome were effectively destroyed. One of the courtiers in Aachen during the reigns of Charlemagne and Louis was Einhard, whose celebratory biography of Charlemagne remains one of the most important sources about the emperor’s life.
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from The Hill
LEFT-CENTER BIAS, MIXED, newspaper in Washington, D.C.Get ready for fits and fury as Democrats take up the gavel
Members of the resistance movement are counting the days until the 116th Congress begins so they can break out their favorite new toy of oversight power. They hope the exercise of this authority, with hearings wrapped in ceremony and held in historical rooms on Capitol Hill, will lend legitimacy to their unrestrained obstruction of the White House agenda. The proper use of oversight is to inform legislation and to ferret out abuse of taxpayer resources. It should be welcomed regardless of the political environment. But conservatives should realize Democrats will not make proper use of the authority designed to obtain information necessary to inform legislation.
from Idaho Statesman
Newspaper in Boise, Idaho
You asked: ‘What happened to the Hawaiians who once lived in Idaho?’ Here’s your answer
It started with explorer James Cook — yes, the European explorer who visited the Hawaiian Islands in 1778. That same year, Cook headed to what is now the Oregon Coast, where he spent the better part of a year seeking the fabled Northwest Passage and mapping the coast. He brought at least one Hawaiian crew member on the voyage. In 1779, Cook was killed by Hawaiians when his ship returned to the islands. But Cook had created a pathway, and expeditions that followed his maps stopped on the islands, often picking up Hawaiians as crew, before heading north. In 1789, Hawaiian Chief Atooi was aboard the American sailing vessel Columbia Rediviva when explorer Capt. Robert Gray reached the Columbia River more than a decade before Lewis and Clark laid eyes on the Pacific Ocean. But it was the British-and Canadian-run fur-trapping industry that brought many Hawaiians to Idaho in the first half of the 19th century. They became mainstays for the expeditions that Hudson’s Bay and North West companies trappers Donald Mackenzie, Peter Skene Ogden and David Thompson led through present-day Idaho, Oregon, Washington, Montana and British Columbia.
You asked: ‘What happened to the Hawaiians who once lived in Idaho?’ Here’s your answer
It started with explorer James Cook — yes, the European explorer who visited the Hawaiian Islands in 1778. That same year, Cook headed to what is now the Oregon Coast, where he spent the better part of a year seeking the fabled Northwest Passage and mapping the coast. He brought at least one Hawaiian crew member on the voyage. In 1779, Cook was killed by Hawaiians when his ship returned to the islands. But Cook had created a pathway, and expeditions that followed his maps stopped on the islands, often picking up Hawaiians as crew, before heading north. In 1789, Hawaiian Chief Atooi was aboard the American sailing vessel Columbia Rediviva when explorer Capt. Robert Gray reached the Columbia River more than a decade before Lewis and Clark laid eyes on the Pacific Ocean. But it was the British-and Canadian-run fur-trapping industry that brought many Hawaiians to Idaho in the first half of the 19th century. They became mainstays for the expeditions that Hudson’s Bay and North West companies trappers Donald Mackenzie, Peter Skene Ogden and David Thompson led through present-day Idaho, Oregon, Washington, Montana and British Columbia.
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from Laudable Practice Blog
WHY SHOULD WE PRAY CRANMER'S COLLECT FOR ADVENT II?
A common feature of much recent Anglican liturgical revision has been to remove Cranmer's collect for the Second Sunday in Advent out of the season. So, for example, in the Church of England's Common Worship it is the collect for the last Sunday after Trinity and before the 'Sundays before Advent', while in the Church of Ireland's BCP 2004 it is the collect of the 'Fifth Sunday before Advent'*. This is similar to the approach in TEC's BCP 1979, where the collect is given for Proper 28, "the Sunday closest to November 16".
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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