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Over at Orrologion, we finally have a decent review of the New English Translation of the Septuagint for normal folks. I have, and have been using, a copy of the NETS for about three months now. Readable it certainly is. Accurate it is...
Clearly, Sullivan has the word “Fundamentalism” confused with religious obsession, which is more of a personality disorder than a branch of Christianity. This revelation helps explain a
“Missiologists are like church growth experts, the less you have around, the better off you are
Has it really been one month since we updated? I have been busy with the work of Lent, the work of my work and the work of my health over the past month. On top of that, I have been travelling far & wide and even had the pleasure of meeting new friends and seeing new, wonderful places...
If you have access to New Blackfriars’ back issues online, it’s worth reading David Bentley Hart’s response to the “critical responses” to The Beauty of the Infinite...
A delightful children’s book on the liturgical year, by the Anglo-Catholic artist Enid Chadwic
I agree with Ezekiel that the primary problem evolution poses for Christianity is what to do about the Fall. It’s an issue I’ve though a bit about without coming to any firm conclusion...
To continue my last post, Douthat has continued speaking on these issues with a mention from a reader of the Mythological Escape. The reader uses Tolkien to make the point, which is actually a very good place to start...
I have long been of the opinion that the greatest threat to Christianity found in evolutionary biology is not the descent of man or even the implied long-view of time...
To our Readers (all five of you): Forgive me, my brothers and sisters, for all my sins and failings. As a blogger, but, more importantly, as a Christian. –Ezekie
What’s Wrong With the World offers up two excellent posts on usury, the financial crisis and mor
A valuable post at Reading Notes, that starts with Strauss and ends with Schmemann, Hart & Bradshaw.
The discussion continues*, and I have a few things I wished to add to yesterday’s post. As an exercise, there’s not much wrong with “must-read” lists as long as they are given with a sense of humility...
Fr. Stephen offers up another excellent post on Scripture & the Church.
Lest I live up to predictions that I am “all talk”, I will talk some more*. This post at Orrologion discusses the idea of a list of ten “must reads” for inquirers or others looking to learn about Orthodoxy...
The topic of declining Biblical literacy has probably long entered into the realm of “of course”, but there are times when the sense of loss can actually still seem poignant: They knew so little about the context in which [”Paradise Lost”] was written and about the references that the poem...
First Things’s “On the Square” has another unremarkable take on the problem of Susan in The Last Battle...
I just discovered that if you search for something that isn’t there on our blog, you got an extremely inappropriate message left by the designer of the theme. Apologies for anyone that happened to
I was reading a book yesterday (G.J. McAleer’s Ecstatic Morality and Sexual Politics: A Catholic and Anti-totalitarian Theory of the Body) and a (non-Christian) friend asked me what it was about. I said it was about St...
“Now in general, the negative reply just floors me. How can a reasonably well educated person simply ignore or dismiss so easilythe second largest Christian tradition on the planet, which has an unquestionable antiquity and preserved apostolic orders and a sacramental life...
First Things’s On the Squarehas an excellent review and apology for Anne Rice’s twoChrist the Lord books and her recent mem
Oakes has a good bit on First Things’s “On the Square” today, regarding one of the better insights of McIntyre’s After Virtue, on the ability of liberalism to make arguments against it seem like debates within it...
“And I am convinced that just as the remarkable thing about the Reformation was that it looked like a religious movement but turned out to be a political one, so will the movements of our times, which look to be merely political, suddenly reveal themselves to be religious or a need for...
My co-blogger Ezekiel takes issue with part of my last post, and it seemed worth addressing in a post of its own: First of all, two preliminaries to the discussion: first and most importantly, I think that in a spirit of obedience to the Holy See, TAC should accept whatever arrangement is given...
Rumors are flying once again that Rome has decided to accept the Traditional Anglican Communion as a personal prelature. While, as a TAC person, I pray daily for the unity of TAC and Rome, there doesn’t seem to be any solid basis for the current round of speculations...
“A Not-So-Simple Life: In a cramped Washington rowhouse, six women share one shower and a quest to serve God
A very nice slide show in Time.
First Principles - Culture? What Culture? “Shall we have a culture again? Go home, marry, love your children, feast your neighbors, work and play and worship, and remember
Some beautiful church architecture.
“Oh! Powerful St. Simon, I humbly come to you. Let your spirit help me in all actions and in any dangerous circumstance. If it is love, you will hold the person I like. If it is a business, you will not allow it to fail because evil cannot have more power than your spirit...
While harsh, this takeon the recent NYT article on Mark Driscoll and Mars Hill has a lot to say for it. I read this last night and talked about it with my wife, and I could not get around how I felt about the article...
One major theme in The Beauty of the Infinite is the idea of the Logos as God’s rhetoric. It’s a crucial idea for the book, which agrees with our current philosophical end-game (a feature not limited to the Continental tradition)...
Also from David Bentley Hart’s The Beauty of the Infinite: There are theologians who believe that theology has something to learn from and contribute to the analytic tradition of philosophy (here I reserve judgment), but even if this is so the encounter would be a purely apologetic enterprise;...
The City & The City