The most recent Christian Carnival is up. For those of us new to all this fancy bloggy terminology, a “carnival” is an assemblage of blog entries that all share a common theme. You submit a blog entry with the links and a sentence or two about it and they fit in as many as they […]

My morning readings get a little painful sometimes, but this morning I didn’t know in the end whether I was more sad or glad. I’ll break out the two separately, but the first readings turned out to be very hard.

My idea this year was that besides a New Testament reading and psalm, I would read […]

I’ve been making my way through “Walking the Bible: a Journey by Land through the Five Books of Moses” by Bruce Feller. This book is aptly titled. To read the book by this lapsed Jewish scholar who has found himself drawn more and more to reconsider the Bible he put aside long ago feels like […]

Greg picked up this book for me called “The Complete Guide to Christian Denominations” on a whim, and I’ve been making my way through it. I must be almost as much of the church-lady/church-junkie that Greg makes me out to be, because I’ve found it hard to put down sometimes.
I think I’m a little […]

I haven’t had to argue with anyone who thinks that “The Judas Gospel” is worth serious consideration, but I’m reading up on stuff all the same, because you never know. Thought this article on the Antiochian Web-site made some excellent points:

Perhaps unsurprisingly, the media is fascinated by Gnostic ideas that were popular in the days […]

I was hanging out in a Barnes & Noble coffeeshop last week when a guy sitting with his buddies started to happily pontificate on the greatness of “The Gospel of Judas.” I had been hearing the ads for National Geographic’s show about this — I was particularly careful not to set the timer to record […]

As a follow-up to this post about the Pope dropping the title of “Patriarch of the West”, when this showed up on OrthodoxyToday.org today, it generated this comment that the title-removal might have more to do with Western redistricting changes than outreach to the Orthodox:

One Catholic commentator has suggested that this move might not be […]

Apparently, the pope is willing to shed the title of “Western Patriarch” in the interest of appeasing the Orthodox. Notice the problem? Yep, So did I.

My priest, Fr. Elias, sent out an e-mail with this article from Bp. Hillarion of Viena entitled “Pope’s Title “Patriarch of the West” Removed. What Does It Mean for the […]

Via Christianity Today:
The influence of the culture on all those individuals, including Christians, is less like that of a formal institution and more like the weather. We can observe that, under current conditions, it’s cloudy with a chance of cynicism. Crudity is up, nudity is holding steady, and there is a 60 percent chance that […]

Via townhall.com::
An impressive list of evangelical Christian leaders has recently signed onto the “Evangelical Climate Initiative” (ECI), a statement calling for Americans to do what they can to combat climate change.
Some of the statement seems reasonable and biblical. Yes, Christians are called to be stewards of the earth. Yes, we’re charged with caring […]