Some place between 40 and Death
Posted in AnarXPistos, orthoparadoxy on 2 September 2008 - 3 אלול 5768
ROPER CHRISTIAN Revolution is a threat to the social order. Opposition to caste system is root of attacks against Christians in India, says archbishop. He errs, I think, when he hopes, “We will be given help by the central government and by the State” because that comes at a price. But Glory [...]
Posted in Teh Gay, orthoparadoxy on 2 September 2008 - 3 אלול 5768
HIS Encyclical letter from the Orthodox Church in America’s Synod of Bishops is pretty amazing for its candour and honesty - but not for its completeness. It focuses on the finances and not on the sex issues: and, lo, I think Institutional Orthodoxy is once again playing “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell.”
Recognizing our weakness, and [...]
Posted in orthoparadoxy on 31 August 2008 - 1 אלול 5768
Continuing with the series linked in the sidebar there, under the peace cross. Here is part two on Incarnation.
LOT OF Christians get this one wrong. Some, today, even deny it outright. Here’s the most important, radical, revolutionary thing about Christianity: God has a navel. I don’t know if it was [...]
Posted in orthoparadoxy, other paths on 28 August 2008 - 28 אב 5768
ITH Prayers ascending for the persecuted Christians of India, this article made me so honoured to be a Christian:
Indian archbishop says extremists persecute Christians for helping the poor. Christians are violating the taboo against helping the poor, the untouchables, the lower classes and “are persecuted above all because of [their] social efforts to help [...]
Posted in orthoparadoxy on 23 August 2008 - 23 אב 5768
Continuing in my reverse order - Eucharist to Incarnation to Trinity (like good labyrinth walkers, we will turn around and come out the other way) - we come to Incarnation, now. The complete menu for this series is located in the sidebar, just below the Peace Cross.
HE EXPERIENCE of the Early Church was that [...]
Posted in orthoparadoxy on 10 August 2008 - 10 אב 5768
OW SHOULD We deal with our enemies? Who are our enemies? Paul says it best - “we wrestle not with flesh and blood”. At worst there are people who consider themselves our enemies. But a Christian, wrote Will Campbell (I think) is the one who hasn’t any enemies.
Posted in orthoparadoxy on 7 August 2008 - 7 אב 5768
ITH THE Last post in this series we began a look at Eucharist. I’d like to broaden this out now, seeing Eucharist in places we might normally see it.
Before there was the idea of “Mass” - of a ritual eating divided out from the community meal - there was the reality of the Agape [...]
Posted in orthoparadoxy, teh internets on 5 August 2008 - 5 אב 5768
ROM THE Readings for Last Sunday, I commend to you two Sermons from St. Gregory’s parish:
To leave your eyes weeping in sadness…
Blessed and Limping
Will Hocker (8:30AM)
To leave your eyes weeping in joy…
YOU Give Them Something To Eat
Sara Miles (10:30AM)
(You can subscribe to their podcast via iTunes - that link will only work in iTunes)
Posted in orthoparadoxy on 4 August 2008 - 4 אב 5768
HE RECENT Pages of this blog have noted the parallels between Anglicanism and Orthodoxy. In his interview with the conservative and generally very low-church Prayer Book Society, Bishop KALLISTOS does the same thing, pointing out that issues of Women’s Ordination and Same-Sex Blessing are “not particularly on our immediate agenda now, yet they are [...]
Posted in orthoparadoxy on 3 August 2008 - 3 אב 5768
HEN I Sat down to sketch out this series, I thought to do it in the order presented: Trinity, Incarnation and Eucharist. It made sense thinking from the top down. But as I considered this series I realised it was important to actually do it in historical order: the Eucharist came first in [...]
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