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Justice Ain’t Pretty.

DVENT Is said to begin in the Western Church four Sundays before Christmas. (This year that’s the last Sunday in November - some years it’s the first Sunday of December.) It has not always been so, however: the older tradition of the Eastern Church makes Advent to begin on 15 November. It [...]

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The Splendour of the Heavens

his passage, Sirach 43:1-22, was the OT Lection from the Daily Office today (ECUSA). The Fathers teach that the universe is the first Bible…

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Today was Tomorrow Yesterday

ABBI Derek takes us on a tour of Jewish Apocalyptic Literature from the inter-testement period. It a long list containing even parts of canonical books. I like the books of Enoch. Although the early apostles considered it canonical (it was quoted as a prophetic text in the New Testament in the Letter of [...]

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Whose Money?

And he saith unto them, Whose is this image and superscription?
Matthew 22:20 (AV)
HOULD YOU, Like many, happen to read today’s assignment in the RCL, Proper 24, Year A, in a modern translation, you will probably hear the above question phrased as, Then he said to them, “Whose head is this, and whose title?”
And then you’d [...]

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Roots Post #5

HE PATRISTIC Take on the Bible must, at once, seem very liberating to anyone who has suffered under a fundamentalism and yet infuriating to anyone who wants to dissect the text, crossed with historical research and cultural anecdotes about the “real meaning” of a certain phrase or political antecedents of such-and-such set of imagery.

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How did Who say What?

ER HOST HAS Been woefully remiss in blogging a wonderful discussion On Contexts and Biblical Interpretation over at Derek’s engaging blog, haligweorc (which I read to be Anglosaxon for “Holy Work” but I could be wrong). Our discussion on the context of parables grew from Donald’s post at Episcopal Cafe.
If such theories as those [...]

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Don’t Wait Too Long

EADING The RCL for today, Year A, Proper 23, I’m struck by something as I read this story. And I’m sure it’s been clear to others for a long while: when Aaron made the Golden Calf he named it YHVH! And he also referred to it (one statue) as “Elohim”. This may be [...]

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Warm Fuzzies

IVEN The Church Fathers’ paralleling of Eros with Agape (as per our readings in Clement), this doesn’t bother the literalist in me.

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Sinners in the Church

Jesus said, “If another member of the church sins against you, go and point out the fault when the two of you are alone. If the member listens to you, you have regained that one. But if you are not listened to, take one or two others along with you, so that every word may [...]

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Like a Mirror

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Originally uploaded by w.wabbit.

ARAUDING, murdering, racist xenophobes with a penchant for story-telling?

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