Pascha polyglotta – Paschal Greeting in 250 Languages

Pascha polyglotta – Paschal Greeting in 250 Languages
This site allows you to see and hear the central affirmation of the Christian faith: “Christ is risen; indeed, he is risen!” in some 250 languages. You can navigate either by languages in alphabetical order or by geographical regions.

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Did Jesus Approve of a Homosexual Couple in the Story of the Centurion at Capernaum?

Um, that would be NO, says Robert Gagnon (pdf file)
[H/T, CaNN who link to it]

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The Fatherhood Chronicles CXI

“It’s My Favorite Song!”
So Sofie said to me this morning.  But of course, one should keep in mind that at present, anything Sofie desires or happens to like and is presently speaking about is her faaayyvrutt.
But some of her favorite things do, indeed, happen to be her favorite things.  For example, she generally wants the [...]

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On the Problems of Private Interpretation

One of the frustrations I often have in dialoguing with Christians from the Restoration Movement churches of my upbringing is their unreflective use–and thus inherently asserted authority–of private interpretation.  They will rail against, for example, the sacramental view of the Lord’s Supper, but in so doing will cobble together a proof-texted “argument” from the Old Testament prohibition against consuming [...]

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Christian Persecution in Turkey, Present and Past

The consistently myopic U.S. news rightly and properly registered the horrid massacre at V Tech last week, but the slayings of Christians in Turkey were hardly a blip on the media radar.
Last Wednesday, one German and two Turkish Christians were bound hand and legs before having their throats slit in the southeastern city of Malatya.
The [...]

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For Fr Jeff

A recent phone call from an Anglican priest and friend, pointed out a blog post which speculates, based on the Paschal homily whether St. John was a universalist.  My response for Fr. Jeff is a bit delayed, but hopefully better late than never.
Consider the following:
Since then “the things that are seen are temporal, but the things [...]

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Some Readings “Solutions” (or One Possibility) for Chase and Phillips

If you wanted help with some of the readings in Chase and Phillips’ grammar, then this site offers some links for chapters 3-16.
An interesting site over all.

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On the So-Called “Apocryphal” Books of Scripture

[Note: I put this in a comment to a previous post, but decided that, since it was a bit off topic of the post, and that it might be interesting to my readers, I would put it up in a post all its own.]
The evidence from history is unequivocal: the Church considered what Protestants call [...]

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Two Book Buys

I got a lift Friday when the mail brought two books to our mailbox.
The first is Joe Sachs’ translation of Plato’s Republic. As anyone who has read my blog knows, I am quite keen on Sachs’ Aristotle translations. He does, in my view, a masterful job of getting around the Latinate technical terminology to [...]

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The Body of Christ

The Church is Christ’s Body.  Yes, this image is a metaphor, and so we must be careful of literalizing the image beyond what the metaphor carries.
That said, a human body is not just the aggregate sum of its parts.  You don’t just pile a bunch of organs and limbs on a table and say: There’s a [...]

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