Monday, January 12, 2015

"Culturally speaking, the Christian religion is one of those subjects about which it is cool to be ignorant."

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     Rowan Williams, "No life, here  —  no joy, terror or tears,"  Church times,  17 July 1998, p. 27 (26-27).

"If a corpse clearly marked 'Jesus of Nazareth' turned up, I should save myself a lot of trouble and become a Quaker."

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"I have never quite managed to see how we can make sense of the sacramental life of the Church without a theology of the risen body; an...
Tuesday, January 6, 2015

Intimations of Christianity among the Romans

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     "'You must forgive me, Nicolaus; I know that you will disagree, and that you have no way to voice your disagreement; but I hav...
Thursday, January 1, 2015

Quem terra pontus aethera . . . (attr. Venantius Fortunatus, c.530-c.610) / The God whom earth and sea and sky . . . (John Mason Neale, 1818-1866)

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Quem terra pontus aethera . . . The God whom earth and sea and sky . . .      Hymn, Office of readings, Common of the Blessed Virgin Mary...
Tuesday, December 30, 2014

"a remark addressed to the contemporary gay fight for marriage equality."

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"What you want is to live with a man in a happy home.  But you don't know how trivial it is.  Marriage is emblematic of modern life...

Honest Abe

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"'With him truth is out of the question, and as for getting a good bright passable lie out of him, you might as well try to strike ...

"let us not be at enmity with ourselves, but change our way of life without delay."

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"by taking a body from the Virgin he refashioned our fallen nature. . . . "he offered his own manhood as the firstfruits of our...