This morning, as usual, our priest gave a very good sermon. The Gospel was Luke 10:38-42 (of course preaching on the Gospel is a bit of a copout, the OT texts were particularly good and challenging Amos 8 and Psalm 52) and he preached the expected trope that Mary was doing the better thing by [...]
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A little over the top – Orange Eucharist
I just saw this on a clergy list and it may be old news for some. I love sports and particularly both all kinds of football myself, but I think this is really taking things too far. What do you all think? Too much? AKMA has already commented (and likely others) and he doesn’t like it [...]
How shall we rear our children?
I have been a bit hesitant to share this openly on the blog since it transparently comes from current circumstances in my own life, however a recent discussion with some close friends and being shown a blog post directly on this topic at the Christian Monist has me wanting to share some thoughts with you. [...]
Baptism, Salvation, and Election
The conversation continues in the comments to my earlier post on How do you “make a Christian”? As always, defining terms seems to be the biggest challenge in such a discussion.
How do you “make a Christian”?
My YouYube subscriptions notified me this week that I had a new video from Father Matthew, and Episcopal priest who does humorous and informative vlogs. This week it was The Book of Common Prayer in 4 Minutes. It is a useful and fun romp through the BCP but when he came to baptism he described [...]
