Dr. Moreau Ecclesiology

In my previous post I was critical of a restorationist or primitivist ecclesiology that assumes that one can (re)create (or restore, or renew) the New Testament Church by simply finding all the parts (beliefs, practices, etc.) that belong to the Church as delineated by the New Testament and then establishing the believing and practicing of [...]

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Dr. Frankenstein Ecclesiology

I remember in Bible college, seeing or reading about attempts to use the texts of the Old Testament (especially the latter half of Exodus) to reconstruct (on scale) the tabernacle, altars, sacred furniture and vestments of God’s people. Of course, as is inevitable when using texts in ways they were not intended to be [...]

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The Fatherhood Chronicles C

Kiss Kiss, Delaina?
In the time with Anna’s family in Oklahoma, Delaina learned to making kissing noises. And they are not just approximations. They’re the real thing. Noticeable during most any part of the Divine Liturgy recent experience has taught. Sofie did a similar thing, but Delaina seems to be taking it [...]

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The Fatherhood Chronicles XCIX

Mr. Mom
One of my favorite Lonestar songs is Mr. Mom, in which a newly out of work dad really likes the idea of being at home and taking long naps. Of course, he finds out different.
WellPampers melt in a Maytag dryerCrayons go up one drawer higherRewind Barney for the fifteenth timeBreakfast six, naps at [...]

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Three Minutes, 202 Liters of Diet Coke, and 523 Mentos

[Note: Need high speed connection.]
Or go to: Extreme Experiment: Diet Coke and Mentos

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The Problem of an Ahistorical Church

In many Protestant circles today, particularly among evangelical and “emergent” groups, there is either a paradigm of primitivism (a desire to get back behind the purported historical baggage of the two thousand years of the Church’s life to the “pure” first century Church—which usually means things like meeting in homes, small groups, communal structures, and [...]

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The Trinity in the Old Testament

I commend to you this thread at the Monachos.net discussion boards: The Trinity in the Old Testament
Especially this post which has a list of online resources, both Orthodox and non-Orthodox.
Also, at the end of the thread noted above is a list of similar discussion threads at Monachos.net’s discussion boards that may be of interest as [...]

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Joe Sachs on Human Reflection on Experience

It is not the nature of human beings to let thing that interest us go unthought about. “What is it?” and “Why?” are not just modes of speaking and thinking: they are living ways of standing in and toward the world. In the face of our most powerful experiences, those questions may not [...]

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St John the Wonderworker and Our Family

In my most recent post discussing the continuing intercessions of St. John the Wonderworker on our behalf, I noted both my struggle with despair over my situation and a tangible answer to our needs. I must confess that my requests for St. John’s intercessions were more often irregular and motivated by anxiety and despair. [...]

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The Trinity, Categories of Being, and Nominalism

I was reflecting this morning on an exchange on one of the message boards I visit. It was a post on the Trinity, and one of the members, who I take is rather enamored of postmodernist jargon and has what I take to be a somewhat superficial understanding of postmodernist concepts, declared that Christianity [...]

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