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ER HOST IS Woefully behind in his reading of The Church and the Homosexual. In fact, chapter 3 was just started this weekend. Many apologies. I will continue apace. Or, rather: faster.

COUPLE OF Weeks ago, Adam, over at Pomomusings, began a serious of posts on Jesus, the Bible and Homosexuality. He had quite a huge conversation up and running through the entire series of posts. The problem is that explaining away a couple of passages in Paul and Leviticus doesn’t do it for me: the Bible [...]

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…

O DAY IS The beginning of the Autumn Book Club’s reading of Olivier Clement’s Roots of Christian Mysticism. Blogging with us, we have: Lee Sally Fr Gregory Fr Ernesto Fr Peter Zara Sare The full reading schedule is posted for any and all who want to read along. Please be sure and whip around to [...]

ERE IS THE Reading Schedule for the Autumn Book Club‘s reading of Olivier Clement’s Roots of Christian Mysticism. Please read the assigned portion and post on it prior to the appointed date. What to post? A reaction, a rejection, a dialogue, memories it raised, poetry, stories of your childhood in a bad religious situation… whatever. [...]

HE MOST Formative step in my spiritual journey to-date was reading a book in a class with Donald Schell at St Gregory’s Church in San Francisco (1999/2000). The book was Olivier Clement’s Roots of Christian Mysticism: Texts from Patristic Era with Commentary. I have quoted from it many times in these pages – and I’ve [...]