Signs and Blunders over at Ship of Fools is particularly entertaining this evening. The second photograph down is exceptionally hideous, in my opinion…
Archive for March, 2007
Here’s an interesting take on the movie Amazing Grace.
- Ingham’s “Better Theology”, nicely shredded
Published March 31, 2007 Uncategorized Leave a CommentThe Anglican Planet has a series of articles by Edith Humphrey, Gary Thorne and Dawn MacDonald in response to – Ingham’s “better theology” of sex. Go read them, they shred his logic nicely.
It does puzzle me that this man could have any credibility, considering his bullying of orthodox priests and parishes in his diocese. This is the man who locked a parish out of their building on Christmas eve, for heaven’s sake! (I can’t find the story on the net anymore, if anyone reading this knows where to find it, please leave a link in the comments.)
I was disappointed in Dr. Kreeft’s lecture. For someone who is supposed to be a Christian apologist, he sounded like he was half in love with Islam. His books are great when he sticks to mere Christianity, but when he strays from that, well, not so great.
….the Pee Bee. If I hadn’t seen it with my own eyes, I wouldn’t've believed it.
Later: The link should work now…
Even later: The other half says that they look like a university cheerleading squad, and I have to agree….
Peter Ould has an article on modern day slavery and chocolate production, including a link to the source of his information. Food for thought, with Easter coming up and all. Fair warning though, there is a disturbing photograph. I think I am going to try to search out fair trade chocolate this Easter.
This is too too funny. Go read it!!!
Dr. Peter Kreeft is visiting Ottawa next week, for the Weston lecture. He is one of my favourite Christian authors, so I will be going to hear him speak. In view of that, I decided to reread Making Sense out of Suffering. It is a topic I think about a lot around Easter, since Easter time is when this happened to our family. Anyway, Prof. Kreeft has this to say about death:
Death becomes for [people who have had near death experiences] more (but not less) than the enemy that it naturally appears to be at first, and more than the stranger we turn it into by denial; something more even than the friend that a merely psychological acceptance of death makes it into, a merely stoical resignation to necessity (Freud’s “we must make friends with the necessity of dying”). It becomes something exultant: a mother, a birth process, and even, finally, a lover, or the instrument of a lover, the golden chariot sent by the divine king to fetch his Cinderella bride from the ashes and cinders of death to take her to his great castle to live and love with him forever. [Emphasis mine].
–Making Sense out of Suffering By Peter Kreeft, Copyright 1986, Servant Books, page 103.
Well, when I imagine my little girl being lifted straight to heaven in that way, it makes the anniversary of her death/birth a little easier to bear. Or, as a very dear and wise friend said to me today, she went straight from me to heaven, and skipped this vale of tears entirely. This is worse how, exactly?
I love her, and I miss her, but I think, finally, I can let her go.
…but this shocks me. What was the dean thinking? It would have been one thing to rent the hall for something like this (although it could still be argued as inappropriate), but the sanctuary? A more inappropriate use of sacred space I cannot imagine, and it’s not because Elton John is gay, and it’s not because he has dissed the church; a drunken party in a sanctuary is simply not appropriate.
The Reformed Pastor has an article about the Edwards Case. It seems that a pastor in the presbyterian church was brought up on charges for marrying two women. Go ahead and read his take on it, but I want to focus on this paragraph:
But now a new case may be brought against Edwards, who has been an activist for the full participation of gay and lesbian people in the church.
Gay and lesbian people have always been just as able to participate as fully in the church as any other sinful people (which means every single one of us). What Ms. Edwards is campaigning for is not full inclusion of glbt people; what she is campaigning for is a redefinition of sin. The difference is this: I am a sinful woman. I have a temper. I struggle with it. I do not expect my pastor or the church to say “there there dear, it’s ok, you can be angry”. I expect to hear “don’t sin in your anger”. I expect to hear “we are with you as you struggle against the sins that tempt you. We will not condemn you when you fail, we will help you back up again”. Redefining sin helps no one. So, my next Hairy Eyeball goes to Rev. Edwards, for leading her flock into sin rather than away from it.
