Self-definition

Calendar

««Apr 2005»»
SMTWTFS
      12
34
5
6
7
89
10111213
14
15
16
1718
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
2930

Blue Devilish Blogs

It's a Midwestern Thing

It's a Southern Thing

It's a British Thing

Latest Entries per Category

Flickr - Latest Photos

scandalofparticularity

April 2005



Jesus has two moms...

Thursday, 28 April 2005 10:29 A GMT-06
...according to NBC's Revelations, that is.  Hey, I watch it so you don't have to!  Here's Thomas' take on Part One.  I only saw a tiny bit of Part Two, and last night I did see most of Part Three, except for when I was making dinner.  So, this n

Give us this day our daily bread

Tuesday, 26 April 2005 9:19 A GMT-06
From David Albertson's essay "On 'the Gift' in Tanner's Theology" in the January issue of Modern Theology (which I just received last week!):Albertson compares Origen's thoughts on the meaning of the petition for daily bread in the Lord's p

Movie recommendation

Monday, 25 April 2005 11:07 A GMT-06
We saw Millions this weekend, and I liked it a lot.  It's by the same guy who did Trainspotting.  A little British boy whose mother died recently finds a bag of money (it seems like millions to him, but it's about 250,000 pounds) and wants to give

Friday Round-up

Friday, 22 April 2005 1:23 P GMT-06
Amy Welborn on inclusivity.Camassia on relativism.Rilina on the new Pope.Preventing abortions of the disabled (via Amy Welborn).  Losing and Using our Children, by Dr. Amy Laura Hall, who writes that "while we assiduously avoid contact with and

Jesus of Suburbia and John Wesley

Thursday, 21 April 2005 9:46 A GMT-06
This week my friend Bill asked me to fill in teaching the senior high youth on Sunday.  What's the lesson?  Wesley's General Rules and ordinances (scroll down past the 25 Articles).  That's right.  Do we ask our youth to join hands and sing Kum B

Theology and ethics

Wednesday, 20 April 2005 9:17 A GMT-06
Okay, I want to take back something I wrote yesterday.  I separated discipleship from doctrine and I don't want to do that.  What does it mean to be a Christian?  It means we are disciples of Jesus Christ.  What does that look like?  Again, the

Not one or the other

Tuesday, 19 April 2005 3:31 P GMT-06
On the way into work this morning, listening to NPR, someone was saying something about how the Vatican opposed certain "experimential" theologians and interviewed someone whose license to teach Catholic theology was taken away.  They ment

Ratzinger = Pope Benedict XVI

Tuesday, 19 April 2005 11:24 A GMT-06
That was fast, wasn't it?Tried to go to the Ratzinger Fan Club Blog, but couldn't - maybe just too much traffic.  Anyway, one could toast the election with these if so inclined.This is from his homily yesterday:"How many winds of doctrine we

Nice equipment, baby

Friday, 15 April 2005 11:06 A GMT-06
I'm twenty weeks pregnant today!  Halfway done!  Hooray!  (Twenty weeks, guys.  How's that transporter coming along???  Time is running out.)I don't know if I have that second trimester "glow."  Someone at work said I did, but that wa

The judgment of judgment

Thursday, 14 April 2005 1:53 P GMT-06
From Chapter One of Resurrection:Williams emphasizes that the preaching of the resurrection was to the guilty.  Refuting the notion of generic Jewish guilt, he points out that Acts 4:27 speaks of "both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentil

Resurrection means "presente"

Thursday, 7 April 2005 11:04 A GMT-06
From the Archbishop Rowan William's Easter sermon last year:"But why might resurrection be such a problem? Apart from the total confusion of present and long-term future which resurrection involved for the Jew, and the untidy blurring of bounda
Category: Rowan Williams

Oscar Romero, presente

Thursday, 7 April 2005 11:03 A GMT-06
Yesterday on WBEZ's Worldview, I heard a discussion about the Pope, liberation theology, and the impact of Archbishop Oscar Romero, already known unofficially (according to the speaker) in El Salvador as Saint Romero of the Americas.  He read this l

Back to correcting my wayward father

Tuesday, 5 April 2005 10:32 A GMT-06
Now I have to get back to arguing via email with my father, who sent me a celebratory email regarding the Tar Heels' win.  He lives in NC and saw the game as a Rebel-Yankee thing.  (No, he wasn't born in the South and has only lived there for about

He repeats a post, I repeat a post

Tuesday, 5 April 2005 10:27 A GMT-06
Yes, this is a repeat, but if Slate insists on repeating theirs:The Church in Africa is not young!

Pope John Paul II

Tuesday, 5 April 2005 10:09 A GMT-06
I'm sorry I don't have any deep observations to share - not for lack of any thoughts, but lack of any coherent ones that I could post.  So I'll just link to others:From Disputations: "When people say Pope John Paul II doesn't fit into the usual