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Here is the Spotlight Drama CD as a zip file. Just download and extract to disk to see the story we built this week. (Warning! This is a large file. It could take 20 mins to download. . . . → Read More: VBS Ending
By Parson Brown, on 1:07 pm%
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A few remarks by people in bible class afterward were interesting feedback. This seem seemed to strike harder than I would have expected. Not that the notes that struck were not there, just that I would have expected a slightly different reaction.
Protestantism and Lutheranism in particular are very polar – either this . . . → Read More: Do you have a church?
By Parson Brown, on 4:33 pm%
Elizabeth Edwards died yesterday. From what I know she died of breast cancer and left two younger children in her philandering husband’s care. She lived her first 50 years in private and a very public final 11. And those last 11 include a book called Saving Graces and final good-bye that included the . . . → Read More: The Content of Hope or More on MTD (Moralistic Therapeutic Deism)
By Parson Brown, on 4:30 pm%
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
By Parson Brown, on 9:47 am%
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Luke 14:25-35
The travel narrative in Luke, what the lectionary has been taking us through this summer, is about discipleship. It is Luke’s collections of teachings and events that the disciples learned from Jesus on His was to the cross, as He prepared them for their cross. The lesson this week was one of . . . → Read More: It Looks Half Built
By Parson Brown, on 11:55 am%
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)
By Parson Brown, on 8:30 am%
A pastor always hesitates before he adds something like this. But this post by Gordon Atkinson (aka Real Live Preacher) has a lot of wisdom in it.
Two virtues are at the root of it I think. A great humility and a sense of the corporate. American Christianity places a huge emphasis on the . . . → Read More: Some Hard Earned Wisdom
By Parson Brown, on 10:23 am%
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
By Parson Brown, on 5:24 pm%
That title was Luther at Worms. He would not recant (what he as being commanded to do) unless someone could show him from the Scriptures and simple reason why he was wrong or where he had made error.
The thought comes up as Reformation Day is coming up and I was reading something out . . . → Read More: Scriptures & simple reason…
By Parson Brown, on 4:15 pm%
That is the start of a pithy saying of Jesus. So pithy it found its way into the Synoptic gospels (Matt, Mark and Luke) in at least four places – Matt 13:11-12, Matt 25:29, Mark 4:25, Luke 19:26. And those 4 places represent at least 3.5 stories: the explanation to the parable of the . . . → Read More: Those who have, more will be added…
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