The Strange American Inversion of the Liturgical Year
…Ye Faithful” are in the Christmas section. In church, it is not until the afternoon of December 24 that the songs in the Christmas section are sung! And they can…
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Hasn’t it Always Been Babylon?
…that the USA was a ‘covenant nation.’ I don’t think it is. The covenant nation of Israel has been succeeded by the international, multiethnic, multicultural Church, as St Paul makes…
Very Bad Taste Not A Reason To Forbid Anything: A Thought For 9/11, Nine Years Later
…mainline churches filed briefs in support. Why would they do this? Not because they favored segregation, surely; but if the IRS couId take away the tax status of Bob Jones…
Living with Same Sex Marriage
…to solemnize civil ‘marriages’ NOW, and content themselves with declaring Holy Matrimony, which is governed by canon law or church law. This will also be an incentive to draw a…
The Adams Map: A Different Spectrum, A Challenge
…Church had better be concerned about it. How will the Church deal with it? Certain aspects of megachurch liturgy, as he already said, are probably appealing to the Bling people’s…
Amusement and Awe: John Muir and Walt Disney
…Creator,” very easily. Third, Sipchen’s issue can be applied not only to nature, but to the arts, and more to the point, to the liturgy of the church. The church…
Art Epiphany, Part II: the Millennium Bridge
…churches, the New Religion worships churches . . . the buildings!! And I suppose that’s better than a lot of the modern art they worship. The New Religion, at least…
Some Bleats About the ‘Common Good’
…Of course there are some communities, such as churches, which are more or less constrained by their purpose to expand; but most communities are not offering eternal salvation! f. Margaret…
The Shoe Is On The Other Foot?
A United Church of Christ is, it seems, suing the state of North Carolina because its ‘religious liberty’ is being denied because it cannot pronounce a same sex couple married…
Am I an Occasionalist? Christian Philosophy Critiques Intelligent Design
…to develop in a Christian culture. A hyper-Pentecostal culture, such as seems to prevail in some portions of the African church, makes the miraculous normative [or it would be normative…