Archive for February, 2010
The Sunday of Orthodoxy
Today we commemorate the Sunday of the Triumph of Orthodoxy. We know it’s the day we bring icons to church, and celebrate the restoration of the icons after the iconoclast heresy long ago. But even though icons are highly visible, the Triumph of Orthodoxy does not simply mean we can have icons.
The creative process
What if there were no stop signs, and a major corporation was charged with inventing one?
Feb 16 is the BBS’s 32nd birthday
On this day in 1978, Ward Christensen and Randy Suess launched the first-ever dial-up Bulletin Board System, in Chicago.
Pelagius: To Demetrias
Few churchmen have been so maligned as Pelagius in the Christian West. For nearly 1,500 years, all that anyone has known of the British monk’s theology has come from what his opponents said about him — and when one’s opponents are as eminent as Augustine and Jerome, the chance of getting a fair hearing is not great. Consequently, it has been easy to lay all manner of pernicious heresies at Pelagius’s doorstep.
What would men do if they didn’t have to impress women?
What if a guy’s job had no effect on his value in the marriage market? How would that affect a young man’s career choices? “Results show that if there were no returns to career choices in the marriage market, men would tend to work less, study less, and choose blue‐collar jobs over white‐collar jobs.”
The Big Lie About the ‘Life of the Mind’
Is it just me, or does graduate study resemble the cycle of abuse? People who have been abused become abusers. People who have got doctorates and still struggle to pay the rent groom others to enter graduate studies…
Mission and ecclesiology: Cart before the horse?
D.B. Hamill notes that unless we agree on what the Church’s mission is, we won’t agree on what “missional” purpose and action look like.
I believe in the insurrection
An interview with Peter Rollins, author of How Not to Speak of God and The Orthodox Heretic.
Missional Church Made Simple
A 2-minute video that explains, in simple terms, what we’re talking about when we say “missional” church.
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