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FTEN, IT Seems, some of the most heated debates (on and off line) start from the assumption that Party A is “attacking” God/Jesus/HaShem/Allah/Something Holy and that Party B needs to leap to “Defend” the Almighty. Please note the obvious oxymoron of “Defending the Almighty”. “Defending Marriage” is one of these. Defending Jesus in the Eucharist [...]

Ruth 1:1-18 Psalm 146 Deuteronomy 6:1-9 Psalm 119:1-8 Hebrews 9:11-14 Mark 12:28-34 Year B – Proper 26 (31) Revised Common Lectionary Love God, Love Neighbour. This sermon title should drive up the hits a bit! One point in my personal theological journey, one on which I harp over and over again, is the connection of [...]

ATHER GREGORY Takes us, often, into the the space where theology and science intersect. He does so with a profound respect for science expressed in the language of his faith. Today Fr Gregory reminds (citing St Maximos) that God does not Explain Things; Things Explain God. Last night our community here, in Buffalo, had the [...]

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 [...]

ERE’S THE Google Book Preview for John Zizioulas’ Being as Communion, as mentioned in the previous post. I refered to the first part on Ecclesiology. Read from Page 15 to the middle of Page 19. And think about it… there’s no way you can accept the premiss of these pages and be “Spiritual but not [...]

WO THINGS Present themselves to me as blog-worthy, reading just the introduction to Being as Communion: 1) The first portion on Ecclesiology needs to be blogged in toto because it is so very much at variance with any American Protestant ideas about church and most American Catholic ideas about church. And yet, despite what some [...]

TTENTION Churc Geeks, Biblical linguists and theologians: For some time now I’ve been wrestling with the Biblical images of Soma and Zoe: both translated “life” in our Bibles. We humans have, in common with all plants and animals on this orb, Soma, that is, “life”. God, however, has “Zoe”. When one is born, he has [...]

HE HIPPEST (Most Hip?) Theological war to hit the Emerging Church and several parallel groups is – of course – Teh Gay. Do a google on outlaw preachers, or take a look on twitter for the same thing. There is, of course, a facebook group, too. The Outlaw preachers are, very generally, a group of [...]

If you reject any or all of the following: God will punish us with eternal hell for our sins. God will judge us for even the slightest imperfection. Salvation means only having your sins “forgiven” and not being sent to hell after you die. Jesus is the only means of “getting saved”. Once saved God [...]

A Magna Carta for Restoring the Supremacy of Jesus Christ a.k.a. A Jesus Manifesto for the 21st Century Church by Leonard Sweet and Frank Viola HRISTIANS HAVE Made the gospel about so many things … things other than Christ. Jesus Christ is the gravitational pull that brings everything together and gives them significance, reality, and [...]