Posted in Christian Life and Witness, Orthodoxy on Wednesday, 21 November 2007 | 1 Comment »
From Word from the Desert, comes this apothmegatum: Wondrous are the works of humility.
There was a monk of St. Anne’s (on Mt Athos), a vessel of grace, who was the first chanter at the Patriarchate. This monk went to the spiritual father of St. Anne’s to make his confession and to ask his advice.
“What kind [...]
Posted in Christian Life and Witness on Tuesday, 23 October 2007 | 6 Comments »
Tagged by Reader Christopher, I suppose I can be a good sport and give 7 true things about myself.
1. My sins are ever before me.
2. I was conceived in iniquities and in sins did my mother bear me.
3. From out of my heart come evil thoughts, slander, pride, and more.
4. I am a lover of [...]
Posted in Christian Life and Witness, Orthodoxy on Tuesday, 9 October 2007 | 5 Comments »
Fr John raises the question: When is it proselytizing and when not?. His interlocutors are none too shy: When Orthodox present their faith to other Christians in monological form, it’s sheep stealing. When Orthodox present their faith to non-Christians it’s evangelism.
This paradigm is, of course, built on a dialectic (and an ecclesiology) that [...]
Posted in Christian Life and Witness, Orthodoxy, Politics on Tuesday, 2 October 2007 | 8 Comments »
Via Tripp, comes a post on Utopia, progressive politics and the Kingdom.
The angst exhibited in the post is fairly typical of what one finds among those evangelicals who are anxious to remain faithful to their core Gospel convictions, but, for varying motivations, want to embrace a more socially activist way of living. And that’s a [...]
Posted in Christian Life and Witness on Monday, 16 July 2007 | 3 Comments »
From the ochlophobist:
Tom would tell me, later in the game, that as a white male, even from appalachia, I stood very little chance of getting tenured anywhere other than an Evangelical Christian college, and that I should thus change disciplines. I wandered about, eventually getting my education in the classics of the West not at [...]
Posted in Christian Life and Witness on Wednesday, 9 May 2007 | 6 Comments »
Tripp’s recent post on where he’s worshipped got me to thinking about that as well. Here’s my list:
Woodlawn Christian Church (Wichita, KS–I was on the cradle roll here in the late sixties)
Countryside Christian Church (Wichita, KS–I was baptized here at 7, and ordained here at 24)
Leon Christian Church (Leon, KS–I went here during most of [...]
Posted in Christian Life and Witness on Tuesday, 8 May 2007 | 17 Comments »
By now, many of my readers will already know of Dr. Francis Beckwith’s decision to return to the Roman Catholic Church. Beckwith, who taught at Baylor where two of my cousins went to school (prior to Beckwith’s tenure), was originally baptised, confessed and communed in the Roman Catholic Church, but later left for evangelical Christianity. [...]
Posted in Christian Life and Witness, Orthodoxy on Tuesday, 10 April 2007 | 6 Comments »
Gabe has these probitive thoughts:
. . . [R]eading any convert story, regardless of where the person was coming from and where they wound up, is always something of a task for me. Though Howard’s book doesn’t suffer from this, most conversion accounts—written and verbal—are rife with silliness. I’m still waiting for that Orthodox convert to [...]
Posted in Christian Life and Witness on Tuesday, 20 March 2007 | 3 Comments »
I had ruminated, in an earlier post, about the differences in how I view my vocation now as compared to a young idealistic high school senior fed on an undending diet of rhetorical questions about what I was going to do with “God’s Plan for My LifeTM.” Reading Trevor’s posts (here and here) got me [...]
Posted in Christian Life and Witness on Friday, 2 March 2007 | 2 Comments »
Growing up a non-denominational, evangelical, Restoration Movement Protestant, one thing that I had asked me again and again is: What does God want you to do with your life? This was frequently, though not always, used as a device for encouraging young men such as myself to give serious thought to working in missions [...]
Posted in Christian Life and Witness, Kansas on Friday, 29 December 2006 | 1 Comment »
Mullins lived for some time in Wichita, where my family lives, and attended Central Christian Church (which belongs to the group of churches I grew up in).
YouTube - Homeless Man: Rich Mullins Part 1 (7:42)
YouTube - Homeless Man: Rich Mullins Part 2(5:56)
YouTube - Homeless Man: Rich Mullins Part 3a (6:35)
YouTube - Homeless Man: Part 3b [...]
Posted in Christian Life and Witness on Friday, 29 December 2006 | 6 Comments »
Lyrics below the cut.
Posted in Christian Life and Witness on Tuesday, 9 May 2006 | No Comments »
According to the BBC site on C.S. Lewis
Hear the only surviving footage of C.S. Lewis’s broadcast talks. This is the last episode in Beyond Personality, the third series. It was broadcast on BBC radio on 21st March 1944. We apologise for the sound quality.
The audio clip plays in RealPlayer and is about 14 minutes [...]
Posted in Christian Life and Witness on Monday, 1 May 2006 | No Comments »
Almost two months ago, I wrote the following:
This is a note to myself.
I write this at about 1:00pm on Thursday, 9 March 2006. We were informed by receipt of a letter on Saturday, 4 March 2006, that our landlord was not renewing our lease. We are to vacate our apartment by 30 April 2006.
Here is [...]
Posted in Christian Life and Witness on Monday, 3 April 2006 | No Comments »
In chapter 35 of The Rule of St. Benedict, the ordering of the weekly servers in the kitchen is described:
Let the brethren serve each other so that no one be excused from the work in the kitchen, except on account of sickness or more necessary work, because greater merit and more charity is thereby acquired. [...]
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