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Archive for May, 2009
Fear & Friendship – Breaking Barriers of Isolation
We’ve often talked about the ideas and images of what constitutes “church” many converts to the indie life inherit or bring with them into the community. Tim Cravens has just posted a reflection on one aspect of this – the sense of embarrassment many indie clergy feel over not having our own buildings, salaried clergy [...]
What Do You Want?
While making my rounds yesterday I fell into this essay “What Do Converts Want?” – written from a conservative Eastern Orthodox position. Reading the essay got me thinking – and asking the question (again) what is it that attracts folks to our OC/IC tradition – that is to say: what do OUR converts want? Today [...]
It’s Good to Find the Overlooked . . .
Rummaging around PBS’ Religion & Ethics Newsweekly this morning I fell into this report from this past November exploring religion on-line that I had not previously seen. The report is interesting because it looks at a number of real-time examples of how more than 1 in 4 adults are now using the internet solely or [...]
St Paul Points the Way Toward Anti-torture Theology
Using Paul as a beginning – V. Henry T. Nguyen’s follow up on the theology of torture is well worth a read. Earlier posts here on the subject are here, and here. Tweet
Let Us Stand Aright, Let Us Scroll Down to the Holy Gospel . . .
Via Huw I saw this post this morning on Kirkepiscatoid (don’t even ask me to pronounce it!) about a . . . well. . . ecclesiastical “spat” over a Gospel book. While I actively avoid posting on anything but OC/IC issues this caught my eye because it does touch on a theme we’ve had going [...]
Food Glorius Food – Eating As A Sacred Activity
Last month I posted on food sourcing and ethics, asking about the relationship between the seemingly high proportion of OC/IC folk who have become vegetarians and spiritual discipline and theology. You can see the original post by clicking here. This morning, making my rounds I fell into this article over at Religion Dispatches about a [...]
Approaching Pentecost
- 5th Tues after Pascha Jn. 8.51-9 Who are you? The religious authorities demand that Jesus demonstrate to them who he is, and by what authority he claims to teach. The Gospels revisit this question in various ways; even having Jesus ask the disciples “who do they say I am” and “who do you say [...]
When is “religion” not a Religion?
What “is” religion? Religion Dispatches has this interesting essay today about a recent American court case in New York that determined that Feminism is not a religion. Well, D’uh! – I thought . . . . but then kept reading. What emerges in the essay is a rather complex morass of versions of a definition, [...]
Torture, Atonement – Suffering For the Good of Others?
Last week I posted on the Pew Forum’s recent survey suggesting that a shockingly high proportion of Christians hold that torture is acceptable. In my post – I stated that this figure suggests that our preachers, teachers, and community organisers are not doing enough to convey the central Christian tenet – that suffering, to cause [...]
Ecclesiastical Weaving
This Christmas I got a loom . . . to go with my spinning wheel of course (one has to have a means of doing “something” with all of that spinning. Anyway – I’m still getting the hang of it all – but having spun some flax, died it (using natural dyes), and stared at [...]
Happy Birthday Bože!
I was curious. I sought an answer. It slipped by and I did not even notice it at first. On 3 April this blog was 3 years old. Here’s the very first post (just in case you’re curious too). I’ve tried to keep a rythm of blogging – to make it part of my weekly [...]
Go There – And Then Come Back.
If you have not already visited Huw’s blog today – do so, do it NOW and read this post. Tweet
Thinking Outside the Box – About the Constrictions of the Box
I read with interest this article by Dr. Murdo MacDonald Policy Officer for the Society, Religion and Technology Project for the Church of Scotland on that church’s stance on stem cell research. I then started asking about how this, and issues like it, are being explored in OC/IC communities. However, I have as yet, seen [...]
A Missed Opportunity For Unanimity
I was stunned to discover this morning that according to this Pew Forum On Religion & Public Life study – barely a quarter of Christians in the US believe that the torture of terrorist suspects is never justified. Have I missed a basic tenet of Christian belief and praxis that says it is acceptable to [...]