Those who preach the white-hot hatred of God aren’t ultimately going to let a little schedule conflict get in their way.
Good to see video of genuinely enjoyable music linked to this time of year through George Frideric Handel and his read of the prophets. Not content to be stabled in a church, the good news has spread itself to indisputable houses of cultural worship – malls and big department stores.
Here are some Advent-length resources that have come into view the past few days. Add your own or investigate what’s already there and add your thoughts.
So much for filling the starving with good things, casting down the mighty from their thrones, or sending the rich away empty.
The year that is drawing toward its close has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so extraordinary a nature that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften the heart which is habitually insensible to the everwatchful providence of almighty God.
8. Ideas fear experts, but they adore beginner’s mind. A little awareness is a good thing
9. Ideas come in spurts, until you get frightened. Willie Nelson wrote three of his biggest hits in one week
10. Ideas come from trouble
A roundup of news and blogs on the Anglican Covenant vote at the Church of England’s General Synod…
Nathaniel Hawthorne, who came along a couple of centuries later, bears some of the blame for the most repeated of the answers: that Puritans were self-righteous and authoritarian, bent on making everyone conform to a rigid set of rules and ostracizing everyone who disagreed with them.
General Synod has backed the Anglican Communion Covenant by lopsided margins in all three houses.
Not all popular culture is utterly disposable to the alert Bible scholar. In fact, some of it – from the works of Salman Rushdie to the music of Emmylou Harris – can be downright durable.