Gracious Lord and God, Father of Life, the gift of rest is one of the great blessings You have bestowed on us, and the blessing of work goes with it. We thank You for it all, and seek to rest before You now, preparing our hearts to worship You in the morning. We ask that …
A Hermeneutic of Hot and Sticky Things
I want to play for a moment with a distinction that Merold Westphal makes, but without saying anything one way or another about what Westphal is doing with it. If a metanarrative is a philosophically-derived account of Enlightenment hubris that is calculated to justify that hubris, then that would be bad. With that stipulated definition, …
In Which I Continue Going Postal Modern
If every tribe is an interpretive community, and no tribe ever comes into contact with another one, then the problem does not arise. If there is only one tribe (as interpretive community), then the problem does not arise. But in the contemporary world (I had almost said modern world), all these tribes, interpretive communities, denominations, …
Trinity Fest Day One/Pictures
I have some bugs to work out, but I will be uploading a few pictures from Trinity Fest 2006, just finished this last week. God was good, the experience was wonderful. This is a photo of St. Brigid’s Feast on Monday night, with 760 in attendance. People came from as far away as England and Iraq. …
Credenda Through the Ears
If I might, I would like to draw your attention to your immediate left, where you will at first think you are seeing double, only up and down, not left and right. But the Credenda cover underneath the first one is actually the image for Credenda audio, a new feature around these parts. A closer …
The Heart of the Problem
“Daix here puts his finger on a pattern that will recur throughout Picasso’s life. Realism is the visual language of love; when the affair turns sour, Picasso turns away from the object and reverts to Cubist distortions, which convey simultaneously lust, rage, and the desire to mutilate and destroy” [E. Michael Jones, Degenerate Moderns (San …
Post Fourth Meditation
“Faith exhibits itself in works, and above all in fireworks.” — G.K. Chesterton This is from an essay entitled ‘Cardboard Noses’ in the November 25, 1905 issue of the Illustrated London News. HT: Mark Beauchamp
Flipping Through the Doctor’s Magazines
We do many things in this service through rote repetition – we follow the drill. Contrary to the views of many in the contemporary church, there is no necessary spiritual death in this. But contrary to the view of certain diehard traditionalists, there is no automatic life in it either. We serve God through faith. …
Getting A Theology of Kids
Over on the right hand side, on the bookrack, please note the safe arrival of The Case for Covenant Communion, just released by Athanasius Press. In all the “great-is-Diana-of-the-Ephesians” episodes of the last three years, there really are just a handful of root issues — and no, throwing dirt in the air is not one …
Before the Dawning Sun
Minister: Lift up your hearts! Congregation: We lift them up to the Lord! So then I cried with all my heart, Hear me, oh Lord, I pray. I will keep Your statutes pure, Again I cry, please save me now, And I will keep Your holy law. I rose before the dawning sun, And I …