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Here are some quotes which I thought well enough of to jot down in my notebook while reading. Every Eucharist is a little Christmas as well as a little Easter. There is a post about the Eucharist which I have wanted to write for a while, maybe I’ll get to it before I lose the [...]

Christmas is over…at least for this year. But for those mourning the end, never fear you can get your decorations out in less than ten months from now. If there was any one misconception which I would like to die with the year, it would be the fact that Christmas is only celebrated for one [...]

In 2 Kings there are some really interesting stories about Elisha. I’m pretty sure I haven’t really just read through this part of the Old Testament ever before. What is weird about it is that the stories about Elisha are so close to some of the stories about Jesus. There is a story 20 loaves [...]

“Son tell me about your day,” inquiringly the father asked. “Well, it was grand,” the son stated plainly in reply. “I got to play the part of a plumber, climbing under the house and work in dirty septic water.” “Son, what else would you have been doing today? Have you had to work on plumbing [...]

I just came across some great little video clips, from over at the emergent village, of a conversation between Peter Rollins and Phyllis Tickle. They cover a lot ground on all things emerg-ing/ent/ence. There are few videos, but my favorite was the second, Peter Rollins gets into some philosophic-theological territory for just long enough to [...]

I have begun preparations for a class, on the book of Romans, which I will be leading beginning in January. When my associate from church and I were at the emergent conference on Paul back a few months ago, he picked up a book on Romans by the theologian Dr. A. Katherine Grieb. I haven’t [...]

To followup my last post about beer, I thought I should post about wines. There was a great interview on Fresh Air about wine from two wine columnists for the WSJ, Dorothy J. Gaiter and John Brecher. The whole interview is worth a listen. But here is a great list which they give: In their [...]

I have noticed that when Christians go out for drinks, Guinness seems to be almost always the drink which is chosen. That is for Christians who it seems don’t drink often or feel that they need to act {extra} conservative in the company. Let me give an example. Me and a couple of Christian guys [...]

I am still listening to the Dreyfus lectures. I am in the middle of his discussion on “The Grand Inquistor”. I have been thinking hard about what Dreyfus has to say about this story which Ivan creates in the larger story of The Brother’s Karamazov. Although I think his lectures are helpful in illuminating certain [...]