Some place between 40 and Death
Posted in church geekery on 29 October 2008 - 1 חשון 5769
Drafting this for the E-Newsleter for Trinity Church
Members and Clergy of Trinity Church went to the Diocesan Convention on Friday and Saturday (24 and 25 October). Convention is the annual business meeting of the diocese and, since the Episcopal Church is a democratically-governed organisation, all parishes have a say in the process.
Bishop Garrison’s [...]
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 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 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 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 [...]
Posted in orthoparadoxy on 3 August 2008 - 3 אב 5768
HEN I Sat down to sketch out this series, I thought to do it in the order presented: Trinity, Incarnation and Eucharist. It made sense thinking from the top down. But as I considered this series I realised it was important to actually do it in historical order: the Eucharist came first in [...]
Posted in orthoparadoxy on 1 August 2008 - 1 אב 5768
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 [...]
Posted in church geekery, jocularity, orthoparadoxy, teh internets on 20 April 2008 - 16 ניסן 5768
I found this over on the older pages from a year+ ago, and thought it geeky:
Internet : Father ::
Google : Son ::
Wikipaedia : Holy Spirit
I think, a year later, I’d reverse the last two: the Wiki is the incarnation of the Internet, the embodiment of net truth, as it were. It is Google that [...]
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