Noted Evangelical author Rick Warren said, in a recent article in The Christian Post: Use Easter to Break a Growth Barrier Every church hits a wall in growth, that attendance barrier your church can’t seem to get past. Maybe it’s 50, 100, 1,000, or 10,000. It doesn’t matter. One of the best chances you’ll have […]
Archives for March 2010
Bridegroom service and the meaning of hypocrisy
Yesterday’s Gospel reading for the Holy Week Bridegroom Services included the following passage from the Gospel according to Saint Matthew: Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to His disciples, saying: “The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat. Therefore whatever they tell you to observe, that observe and do, but do not do […]
Morning people and monks
I admire monks. I admire their dedication, their willingness to sacrifice in order to grow in holiness. I admire that many monks make a commitment to reach out to the poor and to fulfill Christ’s command to take care of the needy. But, I especially admire their capability to get up in the night hours […]
You know you have drunk too much when . . .
Police: Drunk Pa. Man Tried To ‘Revive’ Opossum PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. State police have charged a central Pennsylvania man with public drunkenness after he was seen giving mouth-to-mouth “resuscitation” to a long-dead opossum along a highway. Trooper Jamie Levier says several witnesses saw 55-year-old Donald Wolfe, of Brookville, near the animal along Route 36 in Oliver […]
Bishop vesting in the solea????
Metropolitan Jonah of the Orthodox Church in America said, “You take a man, stand him in the middle of a Church, dress him up like a Byzantine emperor and tell him you want him to live forever… it’s no wonder Bishops get screwed up.”
Monk wanna be
Pithless Thoughts did it to me again! When I saw this “magazine cover,” I laughed and laughed. And, then, I wondered whether I should be crying. Yes, it challenged me again. Sadly, we have some monk wanna be people in Orthodoxy. It is a serious enough problem that our bishops had to address the issue […]
Pilgrimages and delusion
I must admit that this cartoon from Pithless Thoughts quite challenged me. I have been to several countries. In those countries, I have visited the tombs of famous saints, or their places of death. I have visited famous cathedrals, or monasteries. I have imagined what it would be like to have stood up to evil […]
Roman Catholic bishops, healthcare, and pro-life
Yesterday, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops published a statement to go along with the signing of the new healthcare bill by President Obama. I posted the statement yesterday on this blog, but it can also be found here. It, and the letter to Congress that I also posted yesterday, are important statements, both […]
Update on Catholic bishops, healthcare, and Obama
The statement below is fresh today from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. It addresses both healthcare and the bill that was just signed. For nearly a century, the Catholic bishops of the United States have called for reform of our health care system so that all may have access to the care that […]
Healthcare reform, the Church, and pro-life
Several times over the last few weeks, I have been desirous of posting a more complete balanced statement on what I see as being pro-life and its relation to the healthcare debate. But, I never did. The reason was that I could not find the words to say something succinctly without sounding tendentious. Being pro-life […]
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