Monthly Archives: June 2012

Hiatus

Though I have come close to finishing my post on Romans 9, I am going to wait till I return from my trip to post it. This is also true of the next iteration on prayer. I pray you all … Continue reading

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Faust and Faustianism

Most people who have heard the name Mephistopheles have gotten it from a 1980’s Police song, Wrapped around Your Finger. Sting, of course, was an English teacher, and he took the character Mephistopheles from Goethe’s Faust. Mephistopheles is Satan. Goethe … Continue reading

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What’s happening with Lux Christi, and some thoughts on mediating instruments

What’s up at Lux Christi? Well, I came back from vacation with an extra member to my household, a young man named Matthew that my wife and I are looking to adopt. He has a lot of challenges in front … Continue reading

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Some passing thoughts on Catholicity (or, an Ehrman/Pagels view of catholicity)

I have been on vacation with my family this past week, and amidst relaxing I have also had to take care of business as relates to my university, and have had scant ability to keep up with what was going … Continue reading

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The Articulation of the Cosmos: the road to Romans chapter 9.

I first read Philip Sherrard about 20 years ago when doing some reading on Orthodoxy and the Papacy. There was nothing memorable about what he said, but this lead me to look at other things he had done, most notably … Continue reading

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Family, Money, Virtue, and Caritas

As some of you know, I come from a family of eight brothers and no sisters. While we have a great many similarities, we are also rather diverse. Three of my brothers are ministers: a Methodist in Atlanta, a Baptist … Continue reading

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And Perry is back on the field!!!!

Perry Robinson has posted a really good read on Energetic Processions about Orthodoxy so-called homosexual marriages.  

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Measuring Freedom

“The only free mind is the insane one,” I had heard from one of my grad school profs (a Calvinist, mind you). I have had to rethink this, a bit. The craze at the moment in higher ed among Education … Continue reading

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The prerequisit to Learning Prayer (Thoughts on II)

I had written last time some thoughts as an introduction on the cosmic nature of prayer, and now I wish to turn to those items that hinder us in our life of prayer. It should be quite evident that since … Continue reading

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