Some place between 40 and Death
Posted in church geekery, saints and days on 28 September 2008 - 29 אלול 5768
UNDAY At the Cathedral in Hamilton they anticipated the Feast of St Michael and All Angels. I can think of several liturgically geeky comments to make about this, but none of them have anything to do with the point of this post…
Posted in church geekery, orthoparadoxy on 25 September 2008 - 26 אלול 5768
ER HOST Has been involved in some interesting discussions recently, which I shall leave private. But they have given me cause to explore Tradition under different metaphor.
As you know, in the course of these pages, I’ve often asked readers to help me understand the difference between (T)radition and (t)radition. Regardless of my [...]
Posted in church geekery on 25 September 2008 - 26 אלול 5768
ANY Readers of these pages will be familar with the “branch theory”: the idea that Romans and Eastern Orthodox and Anglicans are three “branches” of the Catholic tree. There more on it here although that article progresses beyond the range of this post and seems to confuse the Papal “two lung” idea with “branches”. [...]
Posted in church geekery on 18 September 2008 - 19 אלול 5768
VER AT The Daily Episcopalian, Derek has posted an essay on animal sacrifice in the OT. He wrestles with the most logical question (that a modern would ask), “how is killing an animal going to help anything, and why would that make God happy?” He comes to some very surprising conclusions about table [...]
Posted in church geekery on 17 September 2008 - 18 אלול 5768
INDA DRIVES THAT whole point home, eh? (Thanks to the The LION & the CARDINAL):
For more than five hundred years, the middle ages have been slandered as dark, stupid and barbaric. Art historians disdained mediaeval artists for not developing linear perspective. But there is a good reason why they did not develop linear [...]
Posted in The Hammer, church geekery, saints and days on 14 September 2008 - 15 אלול 5768
‘PRAZNIKOM! A Glorious Feast of the Holy Cross to you! This Feast is celebrated by all the liturgical churches, Eastern and Western, as this is the celebration of the Consecration of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, the Mother Church of All Christendom. Several pious customs and legends have grown [...]
Posted in church geekery on 8 September 2008 - 9 אלול 5768
ESTERDAY At Church, the preacher (whose sermon is not yet online) took the assigned readings and paraphrased them. In the paraphrase (which I don’t have to hand here) he left out all the difficult parts.
In the sermon, he answered my objections (again, it’s not online yet) - but he never addressed the difficult part. [...]
Posted in church geekery, other geekery on 6 September 2008 - 7 אלול 5768
EEMS Someone knew, right up front, what “Ubuntu” was. The new logo for GenCon (see here) has a rather homage-laden, passing family resemblance to the logo for the software:
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Note the linked hands in a circle, note their shapes (stylised letter U with round ball heads) *and* the colours. The colour [...]
Posted in church geekery on 5 September 2008 - 6 אלול 5768
OOD MAY YET Come from all this crap in the OCA. The proposal for the merger of the OCA with the AOA is once again on the table, at least in the Diocese of Eastern Pennsylvania.
And the steps seem to be following through already: there is no new Metropolitan being elected. Instead there [...]
Posted in church geekery, other geekery on 5 September 2008 - 6 אלול 5768
ODAY’S Bad Marketing Decision: The Episcopal Church has decided to name General Convention 09 after a build of Linux.
Paul Fromberg (of my former St Gregory of Nyssa Parish in SF) designed the cool logo.
But really, what about “OS 09″ no… wait… that was taken too.
(Actually, probably just a case of “we [...]
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