February 2012
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“The Gospel emerges from human remembering and presupposes the communion of those...”
– Pope Benedict XVI, Jesus of Nazareth
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“The Resurrection teaches us a new way of seeing; it uncovers the connection...”
– Pope Benedict XVI, Jesus of Nazareth
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“Because I do not hope to turn again
Because I do not hope
Because I do not...”
– T.S. Eliot, “Ash Wednesday”
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People keep looking at my forehead with a very confused expression.
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“Almighty and everlasting God, who hatest nothing that thou hast made and dost...”
– Collect for Ash Wednesday
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“Blow the trumpet in Zion;
sound the alarm on my holy mountain!
Let all the...”
– Joel 2:1-2, 12-17
Today’s readings
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“If “historical” is understood to mean that the discourses of Jesus...”
– Pope Benedict XVI, Jesus of Nazareth
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“A proper Christian understanding of the creation narratives will follow the lead...”
– Peter Enns, The Evolution of Adam
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plenitudotemporis replied to your quote: Instead, one of the soldiers pierced his side with…
“Water” from around the heart, and of course blood. What’s to discuss? It’s biology.
I’m guessing that the central Christian sacraments of Baptism (water) and Eucharist (blood) were more important to the story than the biology of Jesus’ death.
mushfromnewsies replied to...
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“Instead, one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and at once blood...”
– John 19:34
Did I miss the discussion of this symbolism in Protestant churches? It seems like it would be important…
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“Scholarship is its own kind of cloak. It’s a cloak of knowledge. It...”
– Sam Wells, Be Not Afraid
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“He was the place where the closest humanity had ever come to God met the closest...”
– Sam Wells, Be Not Afraid
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“Lord, the Roman hyacinths are blooming in bowls and
The winter sun creeps by...”
– T.S. Eliot, “A Song for Simeon”
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“We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be...”
– T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets (Little Gidding)
Always and forever.
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jarnolf:
Why do the details of Paul’s conversion differ in all three places the story is told within the book of Acts?
Good question.
The first answer is that if Acts is generally historically accurate (a big if, which I will get to in a moment), then the second and third accounts of his conversion are being tailored by Paul to fit different audiences.
The second answer is that the...
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“We have children as a witness that the future is not left up to us and that...”
– Stanley Hauerwas, Resident Aliens
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thalescircles replied to your video: The Transfiguration - Sufjan Stevens I almost…
A pastor was on Twitter last week asking for sermon-writing advice for today, and I think someone suggested that playing this song three times would be sufficient.
I approve. My church sang Ye Watchers and Ye Holy Ones today and that was also most excellent.
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“Wherever you turn your eyes the world can shine like transfiguration. You don’t...”
– Marilynne Robinson, Gilead
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I decided to make a playlist for Lent.
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“I have found that writing is the way I most easily pray.”
– Sam Wells, Power and Passion
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“Jesus took with him Peter and James and John, and led them up a high mountain...”
– Mark 9: 2-9
Transfiguration Sunday!
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Seven Stanzas At Easter
By John Updike
Make no mistake: if He rose at all
it was as His body;
if the cells’ dissolution did not reverse, the molecules
reknit, the amino acids rekindle,
the Church will fall.
It was not as the flowers,
each soft Spring recurrent;
it was not as His Spirit in the mouths and fuddled
eyes of the eleven apostles;
it was as His flesh: ours.
The same hinged thumbs and toes,
the...
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Dylan’s “Slow Train Coming” is really good, in case you were wondering.
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classyliving replied to your post: The best thing about writing a thesis is that I…
…Keith Green?
Yes. And Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan.
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The best thing about writing a thesis is that I get to listen to awesome music and call it research.
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“Not in vain does John assert that the Word came and dwelt among us, for in this...”
– Henri de Lubac, Catholicism (via invisibleforeigner)
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“The whole universe cries out for its delivery and it is sure to obtain it. Its...”
– Henri de Lubac, Catholicism (via invisibleforeigner)
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“Following Christ’s example, “loyally and with no cheating,” every Christian must...”
– Henri de Lubac, Catholicism
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“The reality which is typified in the Old - and even in the New - Testament is...”
– Henri de Lubac, Catholicism (via invisibleforeigner)
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“Be instructed in these mysteries and you shall dance with the choir of angels...”
– Clement of Alexandria, as quoted in Henri de Lubac, Catholicism (via invisibleforeigner)
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“The Church is at home everywhere, and everyone should be able to feel himself at...”
– Henri de Lubac, Catholicism
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“From the first creation to the last end, through material opposition and the...”
– Henri de Lubac, Catholicism
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“Let us hasten to that blessed peace (pax) which by its very name is a symbol of...”
– Henri de Lubac, Catholicism
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“We should gain nothing at all by breaking with an unhealthy individualism if in...”
– Henri de Lubac, Catholicism
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“Slowly, I am beginning to see what this anxiety is about, to see its lineaments:...”
– Lauren Winner, Still
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“I do not think there are many among Bishops that will be saved, but many more...”
– St. John Chrysostom
Well then.
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“As far back as I can remember, anxiety has been my close companion, having long...”
– Lauren Winner, Still
Winner gets a lot of flak for writing so many memoirs at such a young age, and I understand that criticism. But she writes some of the best Christian meditations on mental illness and anxiety that I’ve seen, so when I’m in the right mood I can handle the rest of...
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mshedden replied to your post: In her new book Still, Lauren Winner changes most…
In the interview at the end she mentions that one form she thought of putting the book in was the course of a day and I think would really make for an interesting to shape the narrative of her memoir. Thematically it might have worked really well.
She sort of goes by the liturgical year but chronologically we...
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In her new book Still, Lauren Winner changes most of the names of the characters but I figured out who a lot of them were. She also changes the name of her church but I caught a place where she didn’t. I bet they’ll take that out in future editions.
While I know that memoirs are not autobiographies, that the narrative is structured thematically and not chronologically, and that the...
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