The Archive
Year: 2010
The romance of war II
Even as I struggled with my call to ordained ministry during my last year of college, I was walking across the street to the Naval Officer Recruiting station having coffee with the recruiter, coming close on several occasions to signing the forms to enter the Navy to become a Flight Officer. The dream of jets was on the tip of my tongue, and yet I struggled with God’s call to ordination.
Making a good confession
Erasmus of Rotterdam is famously quoted as asserting that he was not willing to burn for one of Luther’s paradoxes. For Luther, the life of the Christian on earth is necessarily characterized by the presence and regular manifestation of a series of contrasting realities. His spirituality is built around these polarities that cannot be resolved.
Lent begins
Via the Daily Scan from The Episcopal Church, the following is a sampling of the many articles about Lent and Ash Wednesday in our churches.
Assorted links
1. Will Walmart save the small farm and make America healthy?
Rob Tish: “Read the bill, it’s worse than they are telling us”
Rob Tish has put together another must see video, this time explaining how many ways you can be dead under the anti-gay bill before the
PB: “Haiti has already experienced Good Friday”
Bishop Duracin and I talked about foregoing Lent this year, for Haiti has already experienced Good Friday. Their task is to practice resurrection, find hope, and dream together of a restored world. That is our own task as well. The nations of the world, under Haiti’s direction, can help to rebuild a stronger and freer nation, where all people have hope of a more abundant life. – The Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori, Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church.
ABC bemoans “megaphone tones”; “silence of cynism”
Paying the right kind of attention to the corruptions of language in our age is inseparable from attending to the corruptions of our economic exchanges; and it is no less of a religious obligation. – Rowan Williams
St. Christopher’s tradition ends
The private Episcopal school in Richmond is changing the names of its elementary literary societies from the Lees and Jacksons to the Chamberlayne Reds and Chamberlayne Grays in honor of school founder Churchill Gibson Chamberlayne. The school’s colors are red and gray.
Dust to dust
The phrase “ashes to ashes, dust to dust” from The Book of Common Prayer refers to our bodies after death. But it doesn’t specify how