Nicholas Ferrar (22 February 1592/1593 – 4 December 2024) was a scholar, a tutor in the train of Princess Elizabeth (daughter of James I), a merchant whose family financial interests included the Virginia colony, a Member of Parliament, a deacon in the Church of England, and the founder of a religious community at Little Gidding. He became acquainted with priest and metaphysical poet George Herbert while studying at Cambridge. On his death in 1633, Herbert entrusted the disposition (to publish or to burn) of his work, The Temple, to Ferrar. Continue reading
Tag Archives: Anglican
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, aka Lewis Carroll
Self portrait of Lewis Carroll
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by his pseudonym, Lewis Carroll, was an Anglican deacon, author, mathematician, logician, and photographer. He is best known as the author of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass, and many poems. He was born in Cheshire, England on 27 January 1832, and died in Surrey on 14 January 1898. He was ordained a deacon on 22 December 1861. For reasons not clear, Dodgson delayed, then finally rejected priestly orders. He lectured in Mathematics at Christ Church, Oxford for twenty-six years.
Ordination to the Diaconate, a Sermon by Dr Leander S. Harding
Ordination to the Diaconate
A Sermon Preached by the Rev. Dr. Leander S. Harding
on June 2, 2012, Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, Pittsburgh, PA
[Note: Please read the entire sermon, posted on Dr Harding’s blog.]
We are here today for the joyous occasion of the ordination of deacons. Beyond and underneath that we are here today because we have died and are risen with Jesus Christ the Lord. In him have we found a new life with God and each other, being reconciled to the Father in one body through the cross of Christ. Continue reading