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A post by Scott Bader-Saye drew my attention to an article in which Pope Benedict laments the use of sacro-pop in worship. The article is well worth the read, and makes some interesting points. The standard quote is that much of contemporary church music is of the “Jesus is [...]
Headlines from the BBC
“Promiscuous women are responsible for earthquakes, a senior Iranian cleric has said.”
I heard a fascinating interview a few days ago on CBC radio. The guest was relating some comments from the founder(s) of Twitter. For those not in the 140 character loop, let’s just say that if you are reading this you are only a click away from discovering what it is. The interviewee related a [...]
Before looking at the specific problems
posed by what I am from here forward going to call cultural Christianity, I
would like to address the problem of the faulty ideas many people have
regarding the importance of authentic faith. You might think that if you
consider yourself a “good” person and [...]
Poets show up in curious places:
Perhaps only in America could a major cultural figure such as Ralph Waldo Emerson become a spokesman for a popular brand of athletic shoes. During a summer campaign in the late 1980’s, Reebok International put the clipped, gnomic sentences of “Self-Reliance” to work for selling designer sneakers. In [...]
A pastor in the US state of Kentucky told his flock to bring handguns to church in what he said was an effort to promote safe gun ownership. Pastor Ken Pagano told parishioners to bring their unloaded guns to New Bethel Church in Louisville for a service celebrating the right to bear arms.
He said [...]
‘What I should like to write’ [Flaubert explained in 1852] ‘is a book about nothing, a book dependent upon nothing external, which would be held together by the strength of its style…a book which would have almost no subject…style in itself being an absolute manner of seeing all things.’
I”ll have to confess that we had ocassion to rent the latest incarnation of Brideshead Revisited. The movie lacked a great deal; it missed many of the central themes of Waugh’s work. Most notable, it mistook mere nostalgia for memory. In a brilliant little piece of writing, Thomas HIbbs pointed out some of the [...]
Alberta’s oilsands developments are coming under the scrutiny of church leaders from across the country.
Officials with Kairos, a multi-denominational social justice group, are heading to Fort McMurray to see the impact of development first-hand.
The delegation will spend a week in the region, starting May 21-27.
Church leaders say it’s a fact-finding mission, on [...]
This afternoon I had the honour of being the featured speaker at the annual general meeting of the Prayer Book Society of Canada. Here is the basic content of the talk I delivered. I’m sure there are typos, missing sentences, and errors of a more substantial nature which you may feel free to bring to [...]
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