Thursday, August 27, 2026

"'Africa's domestic economy encouraged large-scale trading and possession of slaves long before Europeans visited African shores'"

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     "While it is not a straightforward matter whether the transatlantic slave trade was 'the gravest crime against humanity,' ...
Tuesday, August 25, 2026

"the end can contain the beginning only because the beginning contained the end."

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      Bruce Lindley McCormack, The humility of the eternal Son:  Reformed kenoticism and the repair of Chalcedon (New York:  Cambridge Unive...

"So called 'social trinitarianism' was not an option in the early church. Nor should it be today."

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     Bruce Lindley McCormack, The humility of the eternal Son:  Reformed kenoticism and the repair of Chalcedon (New York:  Cambridge Univer...
Monday, August 24, 2026

"command that these gifts be borne by the hands of your holy Angel to your altar on high" (the Supplices te rogamus)

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"with the pronouncement of the words of institution, the Sacrifice of the Mass is established [(acquis)], holy, approved; but this acce...
Wednesday, August 19, 2026

"command that these gifts be borne by the hands of your holy Angel to your altar on high" (the Supplices te rogamus)

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"we do not call Paul's tongue or his paper and ink the body and blood of Christ, nor the significant sounds made by his tongue, nor...
Monday, August 17, 2026

Four theses on St. Hildegard of Bingen

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If I am right about the importance of reading the visions of St. Hildegard of Bingen in the light of the early Vita of Gottfried of Disibode...
Saturday, August 15, 2026

"once, maybe twice. But. . . . not forever"

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     "The conclusions I’ve drawn from reflecting on the question are simple. First, we never know what the effect of telling the truth ...