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Today in Perverse Incentives…
April 15, 2014 By
Man writes article against internet-as-parish, fills it with links to intriguing websites: …It is unhealthy to have more co-religionist friends online than in your own parish. I have seen this happen to some converts who first encountered Orthodoxy online—an increasingly common phenomenon—and therefore naturally built their new identities around people and ideas from the Internet. [Read More...]
Roderick Mead’s St Michael for the Modern Age
April 13, 2014 By
Fine, I Admit It, I Like This One
April 2, 2014 By
Poor Little Rich Christian: Hulu’s Intermittently-Insightful “Rev.”
March 29, 2014 By
“First let’s say morning prayer. But let’s say it quietly, in case somebody here has got a hangover.” That’s from the first episode of Rev., a Hulu series about an Anglican vicar in a tough London neighborhood, and it captures the show’s best side: a humorous acceptance of human weakness, combined with a seriousness about [Read More...]
From “The New Evangelization”
March 29, 2014 By
Jesus does not really make chaos or problems. He stirs up existing problems and makes us aware of the false peace we strike with the world. Jesus ruins this false peace and gives us peace grounded on truth. –get the book here; it uses this image, our attempt to negotiate a false peace with the [Read More...]
Squid Video, Vaticanomics, Francis vs the Doctors, African Fiction: Four Friday Things
March 28, 2014 By
The things I’ve been reading. This week’s theme is “Things I Know Little About.” Inebriate Me: “The Real Problem with Vaticanomics.” Our critique of Vaticanomics must start with its being unimaginative and—I will even say—boring. Say about it what you will, but when Jesus instructed the rich young man to give all his money to [Read More...]
Welcome PEG. Inebriate Him!
March 24, 2014 By
The super fun Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry joins us at Patheos, and takes his blog title from my actual favorite prayer. [Read more...]
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