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OINGBOING Has a good write-up covering the Spectator throwing out public safety and embracing sensationalism and AIDS denialism. Please read and enjoy the conversation over there. I want to focus on one little line in the post: We should also remember that “teach the controversy” is a technique beloved of American creationists, and of antivaccination [...]

HERE’RE THREE Series of podcasts, one done, two on-going still. I’ve enjoyed/I am enjoying them. One I’ve not listened to at all but it has some amazing names on the list. WNYC – Radiolab » Podcasts: On death… a series of seven episodes (including one video): After Life, Proof, Gone, Four Groans, Sum, Moments (a [...]

Christ is Risen! ATHER MATTHEW style works really well in discussing Biblical Inerrancy. It also works well in discussing the idea of Ecclesial Infallibility. The difference between Biblical Inerrancy and Ecclesial Infallibility is a shell game, however. Those who believe in Infallibility can’t be called out: because something that is fallible, they will simply say, [...]

S PART of my on-going vocational discernment, I’ve decided to look at clergy that I admire and pull out common traits. Actually, there’s a modicum of parallels even with some clergy I despise… To use an over-abused word, all of ‘em are Mavericks. A maverick is an unbranded range animal, especially a motherless calf. It [...]

s the current series winds down (I need only to add a conclusion) I’ve decided to add the previous series into it. The Invitation to communion (“With Faith and Love Draw Near!”) as well as the most recent post on Bible Reading as Tarot Reading, seems to me to be a full set with this [...]

ALKING INTO Ingles last Sunday with Fr Brent, we were discussing the way that some people (the present author included) worry that loosening the grip on one part of traditional Christianity – eg sex – can lead to a loosening of the grip on other parts. I was adamant about that for a while in [...]

I forget who it is… there’s a monastery out in the Southwest, I think? Well, someplace. They paint icons. They are, I think, not a Roman Catholic monastery, or, maybe, not “officially” so: perhaps Sedevacantist? Or maybe just “Old Catholic” Episcopi Vagante? Don’t know. Anyway, they paint icons – and sell them on the web. [...]

What is Grace? It seems right to ask this on St Anselm’s day. Interesting talk with Mother Sarah and Nathan… who is now Fr Nathan… but ok. Anyway, we were talking about Grace at Coffee Hour yesterday. And, while I don’t remember how the topic arose, at some point it dawned on me that “saved [...]

CBC reported this afternoon that the entire phone call accusing the polygamists in Texas may have been a hoax. Evidently there is a woman in jail in Colorado for giving false information to authorities. But the Judge is still keeping the sect’s children behind bars. You know. For genetic testing. Freedom of Religion in the [...]

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