Archive for June, 2010
A liturgical occurrence
The priest was at the altar with the doors open when suddenly a small boy, not more than four or five years old, broke loose from his parents and ran up towards the altar and charged right through the doors and started tugging on the priests vestments…
The Loneliness of the Cities
Toward the end of the eighteenth century, St. Kosmas Aitolos foretold that a time would come when a person would have to travel for days to meet another person whom he could embrace as a brother. We are living in an age where this is already happening. Contemporary man, in his loneliness, experiences pathological anxiety, anguish and suffering. He is tormented and, in turn, torments others.
But what about all the good Hindus?
Mission, skepticism, and uncertainty
The skeptic who in the face of missionary Christianity says, “Yes, but what about all those good Hindus who lead decent lives and don’t believe that Jesus is the only one?” is not really expecting to become a good Hindu or even to be friends with good Hindus. Certainly [...]
Pleasure and pain: Our instincts are backwards
Here’s where our intuitive response is really wrong: we have a tendency to indulge our pleasures without respite, and to take frequent breaks from those things that make us miserable. This is exactly backwards…
Typewriter 2.0
Your old cranky typewriter could double as a fashionable (albeit somewhat impractical) USB keyboard for your home computer or iPad.
What’s your church like?
Our parish was founded about eleven years ago by a priest and a three families from California. We had inquirers’ meetings in homes for a few months, then set up a chapel and began having daily services.
Filioque. Spiritusque?
Regarding the filioque: Fr Paul Evdokimov has suggested adding a spiritusque to the western creed:
To render the western conception of the Filioque as acceptable as possible to the Orthodox, we can say that the Father gives to the Son the energy of spiration, not of origin but of manifestation. But in this [...]
Fads and Fixtures: Ten Deadly Trappings of Evangelism
Joe Carter writes: I’m concerned about the way in which evangelicals tend to embrace whatever trends and kitsch happen to be hot sellers at Christian bookstores. But I take comfort in knowing that most of this stuff is nothing more than a passing trend. What concerns me is the faddage that becomes a fixture. Fads still receive scrutiny while fixtures remain largely unquestioned.
Bart Ehrman’s Millions and Millions of Variants,
Considering that his book “Misquoting Jesus” explored the issue of variant readings in New Testament manuscripts it may be surprising to some that Bart Ehrman’s book itself contains millions and millions of variants. Following are some examples of the variants…
Ever wonder how Romans could do multiplication?
It is easy to multiply decimal numbers such as 177 by 23. But the Romans also had a multiplication method of their own. It was probably discovered by trial and error, and it always worked, though the Romans did not know why.
Why eating shrimp is not like homosexuality
This post is written mainly for the benefit of atheists who think that the “God Hates Shrimps” retort does anything to undermine or expose the belief, held by evangelical Christians, that the Bible teaches that homosexual practice is a sin…
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