You know the Bible 90%!

Wow! You are awesome! You are a true Biblical scholar, not just a hearer but a personal reader! The books, the characters, the events, the verses - you know it all! You are fantastic!

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Well, so much for my Lenten resolutions. I was good in that I went to the 6:40 AM. Ash Wednesday service at the Church of the Ascension here in Chicago. I'm not a big fan of Anglo-Catholic Episcopal churches, and the priest running the show seemed to be a characiture of the one from the Princess Bridge, but whatever, it did the trick. And, only ( Read more... )

An Episcopal parish, Trinity New York, has created a guide to voting progressive Christian values in the 2008 election. It doesn't recommend specific candidates; instead, it just provides Biblical and topical points of reference to consider when making a decision on election day.

From the description:

The agenda examines the issues through a ( Read more... )

ssullivan and I are already making a ton of plans for our weekend in DC. Part of that involves going to St. Mark's Capitol Hill (who has the coolest church web site ever!) for the 10:00 AM. Feast of the Name service ( Read more... )

All but three of my Christmas cards went out in the mail this morning; those that remain will be done tonight and sent off tomorrow. If you don't get a card from me soon, chances are I didn't send you one because I don't have your snail-mail address. Plaxo, people, Plaxo ( Read more... )

Q. What do you call a cross between a thief and a penitent thief?

( I am going to Hell for posting this... )

[W]hen Christopher Hitchens and other atheists routinely dismiss religious claims on the grounds that "what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence," they are making what philosophers like to call a category mistake. We learn from Kant that within the domain of experience, human reason is sovereign, but it is in no ( Read more... )

Sometimes, life seems to keep handing you rotten lemon after rotten lemon. And then, just when you find yourself contemplating dropping them all to go look up bus schedules for the approximate time (give or take 20 minutes since this is Atlanta) you should step out in front of one, life comes to you in the form of dmgreen, and hands you tickets to Ertha ( Read more... )

Buddhist meditation for the day, from this past Wednesday:

But if you do not find an intelligent companion, a wise and well-behaved person going the same way as yourself, then go on your way alone, like a king abandoning a conquered kingdom, or like a great elephant in the deep forest. - Buddha...

Pentecost is the Happy Birthday of the Church ( Read more... )