Oct 9th was my brother’s birthday. It’s actually been two years since he passed away. The actual date of his death is never the one that hits me. It’s the birthday. I think I remember more picking up the phone that first Oct 9th and dialing his number to wish him happy . . . → Read More: A Remembrance
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Yesterday was Veteran’s Day or Armistice Day for those who like history. In prepping for Thursday’s bible class I has read this article. The author’s source – the Homeric Epics – is remote from most people. My attempt at a translation didn’t hit the mark yesterday, but I’ll use it here. If . . . → Read More: Glory, Holiness, Duty and Other Archaic Concepts?  Comments are closed  Meditation, Word  creed, duiy, glory, great reversal, Hannah, holiness, Mary, veterans day That title is from the philosopher Hegel and it shows up in all kinds of quackery from the Age of Aquarius to Gestalt to whatever movement someone else is pushing. It is a hardy perennial. Probably because we like finding patterns in things and we are social creatures – “it is not good for . . . → Read More: The Spirit/Saint of the Age This story was the original. This is a letter to the WSJ concerning it. It is a great mutt & Jeff or odd couple story. A military chaplain who “preaches about divine protection…rejects evolution and believes the earth to be 6000 years old. He carries a large KJV bible with him into a combat . . . → Read More: A Chaplain and and Atheist go… Comments are closed cross, Culture, Meditation, Word chaplains, leadership, military, proof, resurection The gospel last week included the saying “pick up your cross and come after me.” The gospels were written after everything that happened happened, but in the moment, think how nonsensical that must have sounded. Higher Critics, like the Jesus Seminar, reject all saying like that as inauthentic (i.e. Jesus never said them, the church made . . . → Read More: Observation/Cryptic Sayings Comments are closed Culture, John, Meditation contrarianism, Jesus Sayings, John, prophet, sitz im leben If anyone is a Tolkien fan, that title is the other name for The Hobbit. And it expresses a truth about learning to live a faith. The first step in living a faith is to actually have a home. Find a community. Attend regularly. Be active in its life. Know what it . . . → Read More: There and back again (or a pattern of Religious Education) Comments are closed Culture, Meditation Christian Education, faith, grace, living faith, pilgrim, Tolkien, wanderer, World Religions Here is an article reviewing a split perception of what “Catholic” Universities do to the faith of their Catholic charges. The money quote… The CARA report now suggests that Catholics at non-Catholic schools tend to fare worse as far as fidelity and practice goes. But the larger issue is that Catholic higher education simply can’t bear all the . . . → Read More: Teaching the Faith Text: 1 Cor 14:1-12 Looking at the passage for today those in Corinth are hungry for what Paul calls spiritual gifts. If you read closer you realize that these spiritual gifts are not the list of love, joy, peace, patience, etc but are manifestation of the Spirit such as speaking in tongues. Paul directs them . . . → Read More: Mysteries in the Spirit Text: 2 Kings 9:17-37 In confirmation class last night we were covering the 10 commandments and Sinai in Exodus. The opening question was – what does it mean to have a God? Luther’s explanation in the Small Catechism to the first commandment is that ‘we should fear, love and trust God above all things.’ . . . → Read More: Fear, Love and Trust… Text: 1 Cor 5:9 – 6:11 The text is about how people get along with each other and about making judgments. Underlying it is a much different and healthier view of what the church is. For most of the 20th century in the West the church was thought of by its people as an institution, . . . → Read More: Being a church |
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