Some place between 40 and Death
Posted in essays, orthoparadoxy on 17 October 2008 - 19 תשרי 5769
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 [...]
Posted in orthoparadoxy on 7 October 2008 - 9 תשרי 5769
Continuing our series on “The Big Three”, Trinity, Incarnation and Eucharist. The Menu for the entire series is there in the sidebar. The first posts went “inward” on this Journey, from Eucharist to Incarnation to Trinity. Now we go the other way - outward…
When Jesus said that we are to Love God [...]
Posted in orthoparadoxy on 3 October 2008 - 5 תשרי 5769
HE HOLY Trinity may be seen as God who is Transcendent, God who dwells with us, and God who dwells in us. The Bible refers to God, “in whom we live and move and have our Being”. That is the Father. The prayer that opens every service in the Eastern Rite refers [...]
Posted in contemplation on 20 September 2008 - 21 אלול 5768
This was very displeasing to Jonah, and he became angry. He prayed to the LORD and said, “O LORD! Is not this what I said while I was still in my own country? That is why I fled to Tarshish at the beginning; for I knew that you are a gracious God and merciful, slow [...]
Posted in orthoparadoxy on 19 September 2008 - 20 אלול 5768
RINITY is the third of the “Big Three” doctrines without which I can’t make sense of Christianity. It is the third leg of my own personal xmin stool. It is also the third in doctrinal Chronology. After Eucharist (from the very beginning) through an understanding of Jesus as God, came the understanding [...]
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. [...]
Posted in orthoparadoxy on 31 August 2008 - 1 אלול 5768
Continuing with the series linked in the sidebar there, under the peace cross. Here is part two on Incarnation.
LOT OF Christians get this one wrong. Some, today, even deny it outright. Here’s the most important, radical, revolutionary thing about Christianity: God has a navel. I don’t know if it was [...]
Posted in contemplation on 16 August 2008 - 16 אב 5768
AUL May be the first one to wrestle publicly with the question of difference between Jews (and Gentiles) who accept Jesus as Messiah and specifically Jews who reject Jesus as Messiah. He is doing so in to-day’s RCL readings (for Proper 15, Year A, RCL):
Just as you were once disobedient to God but [...]
Posted in orthoparadoxy on 7 August 2008 - 7 אב 5768
ITH THE Last post in this series we began a look at Eucharist. I’d like to broaden this out now, seeing Eucharist in places we might normally see it.
Before there was the idea of “Mass” - of a ritual eating divided out from the community meal - there was the reality of the Agape [...]
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