Quick: Name an American product that’s had a worldwide impact, is more popular than ever, yet still looks the same as it did when it was introduced more than a half-century ago? Here’s a hint: It might be the only musical instrument whose fame rivals that of the people who’ve played it. (more…) Read more
… is part of your church. You fellowship with the ones you’re with, and hence… The Church of the Interlude: Chapel of the Interlude is a fitting name for a church in the middle of a narrow, winding canyon. In 1969, benefactors built the intimate wood-paneled structure to provide an oasis next to one of the busiest roads leading to Rocky Mountain National Park. But in 2013, a raging river between Estes Park and Loveland, Colo. deposited mud, sticks and... Read more
O God, who wonderfully created, and yet more wonderfully restored, the dignity of human nature: Grant that we may share the divine life of him who humbled himself to share our humanity, your Son Jesus Christ; who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. BCP Image credit Read more
CanticleChrist, as a lightillumine and guide me.Christ, as a shieldovershadow me.Christ under me;Christ over me;Christ beside meon my left and my right.This day be within and without me,lowly and meek, yet all-powerful.Be in the heart of each to whom I speak;in the mouth of each who speaks unto me.This day be within and without me,lowly and meek, yet all-powerful.Christ as a light;Christ as a shield;Christ beside meon my left and my right. Read more
Perry Noble made some waves recently when he said this: In the post I did several days ago entitled “Ten Convictions I Have About The Church” I said… Community is more important than reading the Bible. (The early church didn’t have the Bible for the first 300 years of Christianity…but they did have one another.) Based on the reaction I saw what some people heard me say was, “the Bible isn’t important.” So, let’s talk about it 🙂 I am a... Read more
WHAT A PILGRIMAGE! Image credit A Change of Heart: a Personal and Theological Memoir by Thomas C. Oden Review by David George Moore I first encountered Tom Oden via his courageous and prescient book, After Modernity…What? Several years later, I did a radio interview with Chris Hall on his terrific book, Reading Scripture with the Church Fathers. Hall who did his Ph.D. with Oden at Drew University, would both team up with a number of scholars to produce the wonderfully... Read more
Our first Meanderings of the New Year! [Image credit] Kris nabbed a bundle of links for me this week. And a hat tip, too, to Lukas. Tim Suttle begins the New Year aright: I was recently asked to contribute practical suggestions on what might make for peace in the coming year. After careful consideration, I decided that I know of only one suggestion I could make: Worship. I don’t mean worship as in singing a bunch of Chris Tomlin songs... Read more
Emily Eckart (at the link read the whole article): It is commonly claimed that STEM majors are the “most valuable” — value being defined as immediate job offers and high earnings. Articles promoting STEM have a clear focus: jobs and money. College is increasingly viewed as a form of vocational training, useful only for teaching the quantitative skills that our data-obsessed society demands. The current shrill insistence that young people study STEM is well-intentioned, but short-sighted. Our data-obsessed society demands that education consist only of... Read more
SI.com: The first time Michelle Nash ducked away to avoid crying in front of Cardale Jones was on the day they met, in fall 2008. Ginn had realized that the then 15-year-old Cardale needed one-on-one attention. Nash had run a day-care facility, Little Blessings, for 12 years before moving to the Cuyahoga County Juvenile Court Corrections Office, where she works with 18- to 21-year-olds who’ve committed violent crimes. She had been recommended by a parent of one of Ginn’s former... Read more
Source, Vatican Insider: Francis calls for ‘peace in hearts, peace in families, peace among the nations’. He then highlights that ‘It is not possible “to love Christ but without the Church, to listen to Christ but not the Church, to belong to Christ but outside the Church”’. That is because ‘the Church’s activity and mission, is an expression of her motherhood’, since the Church is a mother who ‘tenderly holds Jesus and gives him to everyone with joy and generosity’.... Read more
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