St James' Church is an Anglican parish church in Sydney, Australia.
Named in honour of St James the Great, it is the oldest extant church
building in the city's inner region and has been in continuous service
since it was consecrated in February 1824. Its original ministry was to
the early convict population of Sydney as well as to the administrative
élite. In succeeding centuries, the church has maintained a special
role in the city's religious, civic and musical life as well as close
associations with the legal and medical professions. The church building
was designed in the style of a Georgian town church by the transported
convict architect Francis Greenway. Worship is in a style commonly found
in the High Church and moderate Anglo-Catholic traditions of
Anglicanism, in contrast to the majority of churches in its diocese
where services are generally in the style associated with Low Church.
The teaching at St James' has a more liberal perspective than most
churches in the diocese on issues of gender and the ordination of women.
Part of a historical precinct, it is listed on the Register of the
National Estate and has been described as one of the world's 80 greatest
man-made treasures.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_James%27_Church,_Sydney>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1261:
Alexios Strategopoulos led the Nicaean forces of Michael VIII
Palaiologos to recapture Constantinople, re-establish the Byzantine
Empire, and end the Latin Empire.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexios_Strategopoulos>
1814:
War of 1812: In present-day Niagara Falls, Ontario, the United
States and Great Britain engaged in Battle of Lundy's Lane, one of the
deadliest ever fought on Canadian soil.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Lundy%27s_Lane>
1909:
French aviator Louis Blériot crossed the English Channel in a
heavier-than-air flying machine, flying from near Calais, France, to
Dover, England.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Bl%C3%A9riot>
1978:
Louise Brown, the world's first baby conceived through in vitro
fertilisation, was born in Oldham, England.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_vitro_fertilisation>
2010:
WikiLeaks published 75,000 classified documents about the War
in Afghanistan, one of the largest leaks in U.S. military history.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghan_War_documents_leak>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
eviscerate:
1. (transitive) To disembowel, to remove the viscera.
2. (transitive) To destroy or make ineffectual or meaningless.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/eviscerate>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
 What counts most is holding on. The growth of a train of
thought is not a direct forward flow. There is a succession of spurts
separated by intervals of stagnation, frustration, and discouragement.
If you hold on, there is bound to come a certain clarification. The
unessential components drop off and a coherent, lucid whole begins to
take shape.
--Eric Hoffer
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Eric_Hoffer>