The Archive
Year: 2008
Matrix of love
The account of the raising of Lazarus is a wonder marveled at by generations of Christians. It speaks of God’s redemptive action in the midst of human life, of divine fulfillment of the ancient covenant in the person of Jesus. It proclaims Jesus as the Christ, the fount of eternal life.
Andrew Brown on Akinola and The Atlantic
Andrew Brown: I have never been able to understand the attraction of Nigeria for English Anglicans: if this really is the future of religion, we can give up any attempt at defending Christianity on the basis that it promotes civilised values.
House of Bishops media notes – March 8
Macky Alston of Auburn Media led the discussion on preparing for media interviews and the principles of giving voice to faith concerns in the media. Leading a session on reconciliation, The Rev. Canon Brian Cox of the Diocese of Los Angeles charged the bishops to discuss the following question in small groups: To which groups do I feel hostility, and how have I given and received offense?
Voices from the Cathedral
Washington National Cathedral is compiling an excellect collection of videotaped Lenten reflections. The Cathedral’s Sunday Forum collection is also worth a listen if you’ve got
Farewell to The Wire; Welcome back FNL
The Wire bows out with an op-ed blast against the War on Drugs. Friday Night Lights is renewed for a third season.
Boldly going where no theologian has gone before
Follow the adventures of Bosco Peters as he essays the brave new field of virtual sacraements: “[M]y own current position would be to shy away from, for example, having a virtual baptism of a second life avatar.Similarly, I would currently steer away from eucharist and other sacraments in the virtual world.” However…
GAFCON seeks funding
Thinking Anglicans has a letter from the organizers of the GAFCON meeting in Jerusalem this June. It is interesting to note how many of those
Abraham’s Curse
Abraham’s story has never been ours more than it is now. Naming the compulsion to take innocent life in the belief that sacrifice is noble goes beyond the incidents of any single crime, and takes us into the foundations of human culture and of how people understand the divine. The impulse to praise martyrdom, and therefore to encourage susceptible adolescents to become martyrs, is embedded in our cultural DNA.
Barack Obama is a Christian. Now please behave.
The Café doesn’t endorse candidates, and we haven’t had much to say about the presidential election thus far. But as Episcopalians we know how painful it is to be told we aren’t real Christian. In our case, it is because we don’t exclude the proper people. In Barack Obama’s case the reason seems to be mere political expediency. In both cases the charges are not simply erroneous, they are sinful…