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| “My friends rooted for the Cardinals and grew up happy and therefore liberal. Because of my early and prolonged exposure to the Cubs, I became morose and conservative.’’ -George Will |
Richard, I don’t mind the system so much as the lack of compassion some church members have toward transitioning families. I’ve not experienced it myself but I’ve heard stories. I probably wouldn’t last long, but if someone had shown up on my doorstep at 11:30 p.m. the day I moved in I would have said, “Thanks for stopping by!” as I closed the door and locked it. Rude, rude, rude. Sometimes people just have no sense.
Matthew: That post you linked on pastoral transitions is excellent. Makes me glad to be a congregationalist. 12 years and counting in a place that I love, where I can own my own home and raise my kids all the way into adulthood. The other system seems cruel and arbitrary to me.
If you need a reason to love the Book of Common Prayer here it is:A Wordle of the BCP Collects. Just looking at this might cause one’s prayers to become more Christ centered, yes?
Note that it is based on the real BCP, not on what passes for the BCP in the US (JN)
Read this great post by a friend of mine about United Methodist pastoral transitions. Much of it resonates with me.
All the cool kids are listening to the first live broadcast of the new Issues, Etc. right now.
Me? Um, I’m shutting down the computer so I can go and have a G&T with my wife. But don’t let that stop the rest of you. (sw)
Headline of the day, from the Guardian: Meet the FOCAs.
As you’d expect from the Guardian, its coverage of the Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans is a farrago of hostility and wild inaccuracy. Sample quote:
[M]ocking the Focas is one of the things that got liberals into this mess. Though their beliefs may be variously ridiculous and incoherent, there is a solid spine of hope and hatred to them.
I’m just cross I missed a trick, here. Back in 2004, when I started blogging, I almost called my original site “Confessing Anglican”. I decided against it because it sounded like I was just going to be confessing my sins, so named it “Confessional Anglican” instead. And then converted to Lutheranism within a month anyway. :-)
But I was that close to becoming a wildly influential figure in world Anglicanism – or at least getting huge numbers of hits from people thinking they’d found Peter Jensen’s blog. (jn)
With the rising cost of fuel and the possible demise of the airline industry as we know it, might we see the return of dirigibles?
See, that’s why I like Benedict. He knows that theology is about God. Post-Protestant Catholic apologetics blogs haven’t fared nearly as well.
I’m shocked and horrified to find that the so-called “Gospel of Judas” might have been the center of bad scholarship and misreporting. Amazing. Could it be?
I’ve wordled The Baltimore Catechism:
As well as Pope Benedict XVI’s encyclical Spe Salvi:
aaron, do Baptist preachers not mention the Holy Spirit much? Seriously, I’ve been to a Baptist church exactly once in my life.
I wanted to see what the big difference between Isaiah 1-39 and 40-66 might be as far as words go. Not a lot.
Wordle might be the greatest sermon development tool for pastors to make sure they are preaching on the right subject. How large do you think “Holy Spirit” will come out when you wordle a typical Baptist sermon?
In a fit of self-conceit I Wordled yesterday’s sermon.
This is what turned up when I entered the Nicene Creed.
If I hadn’t been entertaining visitors from another state this weekend, I would have been playing with Wordle the entire time. What an addiction!
Back in central Ohio after three wonderful days in Cleveland. Reds take the series. The Jake/Progressive Field is a superb ballpark.
This blog asked what books had changed lives.
Shane Claiborne talks to CNN in this article.
He is quick to say the call of Christ has more to do with how people live their lives on November 3 and 5 than how they vote on November 4. “It’s certainly easy to walk into a voting booth every four years and feel like you’re going to change the world but that’s not going to do it.”
I heard a lot about doing great works for/of God today. Sometimes I’m not really sure what these Great Works are supposed to be? What if my magnum opus has nothing to do with missions in far flung countries, but everything to do with simple, humble obedience as an act of worship? I’m increasingly skeptical of my ability to discern what God’s next great project is, and more and more certain that my life should simply point to the greatest work of all time…Jesus’ life and death, for us all.
Oooh, all the pretty word pictures. This was from my first month’s posts on the BHT.
Mark: I know, wasn’t it awful?
Josh: one striking difference between the two is that in the Augsburg Confession (Melanchthon) key words include “grace” and “faith”, whereas in the Smalcald Articles (Luther) “word” is more prominent. I suspect that captures a real truth: that, for Luther, justification by grace through faith was (in some respects) a corollary of the deeper truth that we are saved by the word of God.
When trying to ‘sell’ a sport like soccer to the USA public, skip any and all opening, closing, or halftime ceremionies that are European in origin. Dancing balloons…really? On the other hand, having the Rolling Stones open your soccer event is probably a worse idea.
Josh:
The theological content of the two are similar, but Luther wrote the former and Melanchthon the latter. I noticed how “Church” is a really big one.
The Smalcald Articles:
The Augsburg Confession:
The theological content of the two are similar, but Luther wrote the former and Melanchthon the latter. I noticed how “Church” is a really big one.
Since I’m too stupid to figure out the embedding thing, here’s Asbury Seminary’s statement of faith in Wordle. It’s beautiful. I printed it out.
I’ve got a few minutes before the next service – here is John Wesley’s sermon Salvation By Faith.
iStat menu is pretty nifty free software for the Mac, even if you don’t use all the bells and whistles and only use it so that when you click on the date & time in the menu bar, a calendar opens up. If you want to use the bells and whistles, you can constantly monitor your fan speed, computer’s temp, hard drive capacity, memory, etc.
A lurker has wordled a bunch of the higher profile blogs in the blogosphere. It’s worth checking out.
Check out the lower right section and you’ll see a nice twist of chance:
God
Nikirk
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God over Nikirk…I like it.
Here are the last five days at the BHT.
Well, thank you for confirming all the worst fears of our critics. The dominant word in…
Why didn’t we listen when Ken Silva was warning us about this? (jn)
Thanks, Phillip
Here are the last five days at the BHT.
Richard: Indeed, the ratio of words is considerably different in Paul’s letter to the Romans:
Aaron, instead of doggie heaven I’d like to think that all the Mikes and UGAs are in real people heaven. Glorified bodies and all. I mean, we’ve already glorified the players and the institutions.
What intrigues me about the Wordle of Mark’s Gospel is how little the title Christ is compared to the name Jesus. Don’t know what to make of that but I find it interesting. I expect Romans would yield a different result.
I conducted a funeral in a bar today. 90% of the people in attendance wouldn’t darken the door of the church if you paid them. I hope I get to do that more often (except for the part about people dying and stuff!)
“During his reign as mascot, the UGA football team compiled a record of 87 wins and 27 losses, captured the 2002 and 2005 SEC championships, and won seven of nine bowl games, surpassing Uga IV’s record of 77-24-4.”
They claim they cannot product anything other than Java output, but on the gallery listings, they prove themselves wrong, and so:
This article is a nice summation of why Dobson is increasingly irrelevant, and why Obama may be better in the long run for Evangelicals than Huckabee.
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