---because there's more than one. Long blog post, intricate & clear argument. Read it all here.
Thursday, April 9, 2015
Harvesting The Fruits Of Contemplation: Pondering Tidbits of Truth - April 9, 2015
From Google+, where it's been a pleasure to meet and follow Michael Seagriff, a fellow upstate NY Catholic blogger! Provocative nuggets here...
Harvesting The Fruits Of Contemplation: Pondering Tidbits of Truth - April 9, 2015: (Image source: Wikimedia Commons ) Pondering Tidbits of Truth is my simple and inadequate way of providing nuggets of spiritual w...
Harvesting The Fruits Of Contemplation: Pondering Tidbits of Truth - April 9, 2015: (Image source: Wikimedia Commons ) Pondering Tidbits of Truth is my simple and inadequate way of providing nuggets of spiritual w...
Monday, April 6, 2015
Καθολικός διάκονος: Divine Mercy: from competition to complementarity
Deacon Scott Dodge at blog work again and it's good...
Καθολικός διάκονος: Divine Mercy: from competition to complementarity: Just about every year during Easter week, as we approach Divine Mercy Sunday, which is the Second Sunday of Easter, there arises some tensio...
Καθολικός διάκονος: Divine Mercy: from competition to complementarity: Just about every year during Easter week, as we approach Divine Mercy Sunday, which is the Second Sunday of Easter, there arises some tensio...
Thursday, April 2, 2015
If you thought that was crazy...
did the last post on the anti-RFRA reaction go too far? Well, check out how unsuspecting small businesses have been dragged into the fray. Note especially the tweeted (account now suspended) threat of bombing.
Even a gay-marriage advocate realizes the anti-Hoosier ire is misplaced.
Just like Rod Dreher said, "it'll never happen (gay marriage negatively impacting Christians and other groups who oppose marriage equality)...but when it does, they will deserve it." Merited impossibility. The current terms of our national debates sprawl far beyond any estimation of propriety or effectiveness. We are meddling with powers the extent of which we cannot--and, importantly, will not--comprehend. The all-too-avoidable-but-unfulfilling aftermath will only fuel more recrimination and pursuit of revenge. Meanwhile, all sorts of the innocent are injured...basically for sport. As Lent ends tonight we need to remember a little humility:
5 Then David’s anger was greatly kindled against the man. He said to Nathan, “As the Lord lives, the man who has done this deserves to die; 6 he shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity.” 7 Nathan said to David, “You are the man! (II Samuel 12:5-7)
Even a gay-marriage advocate realizes the anti-Hoosier ire is misplaced.
Just like Rod Dreher said, "it'll never happen (gay marriage negatively impacting Christians and other groups who oppose marriage equality)...but when it does, they will deserve it." Merited impossibility. The current terms of our national debates sprawl far beyond any estimation of propriety or effectiveness. We are meddling with powers the extent of which we cannot--and, importantly, will not--comprehend. The all-too-avoidable-but-unfulfilling aftermath will only fuel more recrimination and pursuit of revenge. Meanwhile, all sorts of the innocent are injured...basically for sport. As Lent ends tonight we need to remember a little humility:
5 Then David’s anger was greatly kindled against the man. He said to Nathan, “As the Lord lives, the man who has done this deserves to die; 6 he shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity.” 7 Nathan said to David, “You are the man! (II Samuel 12:5-7)
amid the crowd
Indiana, the home of my beloved Wabash College and my father's ancestral land, is splitting apart right down the middle. I know folks on both sides of the RFRA conflict--because let's face it, that's what it is--and, quite frankly, it's frightening. Since this is an Internet forum, it seems appropriate and necessary to start with the internet backlash against the legislation. On that note, please consider:
This is the Faith & Politics Institute's 2010 Civil Rights Congressional Pilgrimage. Every March Congressman John Lewis (D, Georgia) leads the members of the US Congress to Alabama churches and museums that participated in the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. On March 7, 2010, the 45th anniversary of the "Bloody Sunday" Selma March attack, wherein a much-younger John Lewis led a peaceful march across the Pettus bridge straight into a planned, coordinated assault by Alabama state troopers, the Faith and Politics participants marched across the same bridge.
In the middle, wearing the light grey suit and standing next to Congressman Lewis, is Mike Pence, now Indiana's governor and then the only Republican--House or Senate--to attend the pilgrimage.
Friday, March 27, 2015
Καθολικός διάκονος: Praying the Holy Rosary together with intention
Καθολικός διάκονος: Praying the Holy Rosary together with intention: Today, via the blog The hermeneutic of continuity (where I went to check out a "Tour of a Carthusian cell" ), I came across, in ...
Arnobius of Sicca: Thoughts on the Good and Bad of Catholic Blogging
Whoa, boy, is this good, and by that I mean good in "tough but rewarding workout" good. How to blog without contributing to the blogosphere's temptations and snark? Good thoughts here...
Arnobius of Sicca: Thoughts on the Good and Bad of Catholic Blogging: It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, i...
Arnobius of Sicca: Thoughts on the Good and Bad of Catholic Blogging: It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, i...
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