He who perseveres to the end shall be saved. Piety must be habitual, not by fits. It must be persevering, because temptations continue all our life, and perseverance alone obtains the crown. Its means are: the presence of God, good reading, prayer, the sacraments, good resolutions often renewed,
Months of hustle and footwork by bloggers and various news sources have turned the attention of certain mainstream media to the subject of what’s going on in Uganda.
From the evangelical and overt “The Blind Side,” to the corporate-greed message of “A Christmas Carol,” the cinema of the moment just might have something to teach us.
Among other things, tough language from Anglican leaders in Uganda’s Lango region has brought charges of political meddling.
Facebook readers also posted some of their favorites from 2009. Jim Beyer thought the headline “Covenant Farce Continues in Face of Schism” was a self-explanatory encapsulation of the big story from 2009, while Sandy Smolinski noted the Pope’s welcoming of disgruntled Episcopalians. Michael Cudney points to the disavowal of B033 at General Convention, saying “all else flows from that.”
“The Anglican Church today is in the forefront of fighting against cultism, making people to swear oaths that they don’t belong to cult and will never belong to cult. We are the first to do that. We led Nigeria to that. We are the only people in the world, to the best of my knowledge, fighting against evil in the world, against this homosexuality in America, other churches are keeping quite.”
The Lord’s coming every year to Jerusalem for the Passover with his parents is an indication of his human humility. It is characteristic of human beings to gather to offer God the votive offerings of spiritual sacrifices, and by plentiful prayers and tears to dispose their Maker toward them. Therefore the Lord, born a human being among human beings, did what God, by divine inspiration through his angels, prescribed for human beings to do. He himself kept the law which he gave in order to show us,
With certitude,
Simeon opened
ancient arms
to infant light.
There is nothing wrong with the expression of mutual commitment, and for this mutuality to have a formal aspect. The marriage service, for instance, is precisely that. But the Anglican Covenant isn’t at all like the commitments of a marriage service. It is more like the anxious and untrusting legalism of that thoroughly distasteful feature of modern life, the pre-nuptial agreement.