Saturday, July 28, 2012

Baby Episcopalians

(In a 2005 interview, the Episcopal Church’s presiding bishop explained that her communion’s members valued “the stewardship of the earth” too highly to reproduce themselves.)

Saturday, July 21, 2012

Reinhold Niebuhr

"A God without wrath brought men without sin into a kingdom without judgment through the ministrations of a Christ without a cross." The virtual collapse of those institutions on Morningside Heights, is mute testimony to the truth of his irony.

Monday, July 16, 2012

Msgr Kelly on Fr. Richard Brown

"The new biblical theories — guess-work with footnotes".

Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Church of England

For rent. Wells Cathedral. Barely used.

Thursday, July 5, 2012

Ezechiel

“I have appointed you as a sentinel. If I say to the wicked, ‘You will surely die’ — and you do not warn them or speak out to dissuade them … I will hold you responsible for their blood” (Ezekiel, 3:17-21).

Freedom

True freedom knows no attachments other than Jesus Christ. It has no love of riches or the appetites they try to satisfy. True freedom can walk away from anything — wealth, honor, fame, pleasure. Even power. It fears neither the state, nor death itself.

Murders by science

The rise of atheist ideologies that murdered tens of millions of innocent people using the vocabulary of science

Christian

In the end, we’re missionaries of Jesus Christ, or we’re nothing at all,” he said. “And we can’t share with others what we don’t live faithfully and joyfully ourselves.”

Christian faith

Christian faith is always personal but never private.

Freedom of the press

“Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.”

Wednesday, July 4, 2012

New York Times

All the news that fits our views.

Our bishops

ORDAINED POLITICIANS

Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Faith

Faith is what you have in the absence of knowledge.

Augustine and Aquinas

All classicism [Aquinas] depends on a previous romanticism [Augustine].

Homosexuality

The real offense of homosexuality brings the confusion of passion into the domain where one ought to be able to practice calmly the art of friendship…

College

An inevitable consequence of capitalist enterprise is the creation of bourgeois youth demanding university education and employment in a bureaucracy