Some place between 40 and Death
Posted in memes, other paths on 6 June 2008 - 4 סיון 5768
And a reminder - the posting deadline is 15 June. We’ve two respondents, anyone else?
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Now! Here’s a meme for you! I picked it up at Jspot. I’m not going to tag people because this isn’t the sort of thing we can respond to in a couple of easy blurbs.
Sign [...]
Posted in orthoparadoxy, other geekery, other paths on 21 May 2008 - 17 אייר 5768
I was watching Rome Iiii last night, entitled An Owl in a Thornbush, when I noticed for the first time the lararium in the house of Lucius Vorenus. Here’s the upper part,
And the lower part.
Since, at least for this episode, the household altar plays a very important role (several other events happen in shrines [...]
Posted in Teh Gay, other paths on 20 May 2008 - 16 אייר 5768
Just so you know, and to correct the 39 Articles (and several saints), the unworthiness of the minister does inhibit the effectiveness of the sacrament, at least in Rome.
Posted in Judaism, other paths on 11 May 2008 - 7 אייר 5768
Rabbi Dennis responds to one of my favourite tricks, making something up and saying it’s “really” Jewish: in this case, a Dispensationalist trick called the “Prophetic Calendar”. The Rabbi’s research is a good way to avoid
allowing Christian exegetes to redivide the total number days into 490 artificially constructed 360-day years, allowing actual history to [...]
Posted in other paths, rightwingers on 26 April 2008 - 22 ניסן 5768
If God can destroy New Orleans, just think what he can do to your Church!
As the Globe and Mail reports, God has Spoken: only Gregorian chant, damnit! The floor opened right up and swallowed them. Just like in Numbers 16:30!
Posted in metanoia, other paths, personal on 21 April 2008 - 17 ניסן 5768
A friend of mine laments relying on his clergy job for money to survive. I’d love to be in his position (even after all the horror stories he’s told me - and those that I’ve heard from others).
As I start to settle in to Buffalo - finding a permanent job, a place [...]
Posted in other paths, saints and days on 19 April 2008 - 15 ניסן 5768
A good holiday to those who celebrate the Quartodeciman Feast of the Resurrection tonight - and/or last night! Christ is Risen!
Posted in orthoparadoxy, other paths on 17 April 2008 - 13 ניסן 5768
Since moving to Buffalo, I’ve had the time - and the sleeping schedule - to rededicate myself to trying to pray on a regular basis.
I love the Western Offices - I’ve been using my Monastic Diurnal. The tradition of reciting large parts of the psalms every day is wonderfully edifying. But [...]
Posted in church geekery, other paths on 5 April 2008 - 1 ניסן 5768
One of my favourite spiritual writers when I was living in NYC was James Redfield. You might know this name from his spiritual-adventure book The Celestine Prophecy. The concepts in the book - the “Celestine Insights” - are a sort of “deep” ecumenism in that I think they pretty much fit all traditions [...]
Posted in other paths on 5 April 2008 - 1 ניסן 5768
I was having one of those “spiritual but not religious” conversations with a fellow Buffaloan and we were discussing Shinto, one of my favourite topics. What I noted was:
In Shinto, a person walking the path sees an especially beautiful (holy) tree or amazing mountain view and, giving thanks to the spiritual presence he feels [...]
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The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, 1400-1580 by Eamon Duffy
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