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Posted in politics on 6 November 2008 - 9 חשון 5769
O LAST Night at the Housing Co-Op we had our weekly pot luck. For afters we had some tasty homemade cakes frosted in a way that many will recognise:
I took the cake and cut the first slice. As I passed it to my right I said, “This is my Obama, given for you.”
No [...]
Posted in politics on 4 November 2008 - 7 חשון 5769
S MANY Of my regular readers will no, I predicted we’d not even get to have an election this year - because I thought that the possibility of Obama winning would be too scary for certain parties. But then Obama caved on civil rights as vrs national security and I saw there’d be no [...]
Posted in other paths on 21 October 2008 - 23 תשרי 5769
EADERS ARE, Certainly, aware of the two competing theories of the Grand March of Monotheism: in the one (a literalist fundamentalism) Man knew only the One God, his creator. After the Fall, man either invented deities on his own or else was led astray by demons. Now, in Jesus, we can all come [...]
Posted in contemplation, liturgy on 19 October 2008 - 21 תשרי 5769
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 [...]
Posted in contemplation on 12 October 2008 - 14 תשרי 5769
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 [...]
Posted in Progressive, church geekery on 3 October 2008 - 5 תשרי 5769
NLY RECENTLY have the liberals in ECUSA began to cover up their actions. I remember one priest insisting that the vast majority of clergy serve the BCP Liturgy exactly by the rubrics. To which I replied I’d never been to even *one* service that was so. Not one - in 25 years. [...]
Posted in orthoparadoxy on 2 October 2008 - 4 תשרי 5769
ONG TIME Friend and reader of these pages, Fr E, in his current post on Scripture, Tradition, and Ecumenical Councils (Part 5 of a series that is informed by our reading of Clement) contains this line:
In other words, our definition of Christ is composed of four negatives without confusion, without change, without division, without separation. [...]
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 orthoparadoxy on 7 September 2008 - 8 אלול 5768
Last time, in this series on the “Big Three” (see the menu in the sidebar, there) I wrote about God having flesh. And there was an interesting conversation in the comments afterward. I tired to make it clear that these essay are documenting what I think is needed for Christianity to make sense. [...]
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