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Augustine’s Enchiridion 2
In chapter 2 Augustine discusses faith, hope, and love in the light of the Lord’s Prayer and the Apostle’s Creed. “In these two we have the three theological virtues working together: faith believes; hope and love pray. Yet without faith nothing else is possible; thus faith prays too.” Faith is here defined by Augustine as…
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New year, new beginning
Well, after more than two and a half years, I think it’s time to put this humble blog to bed. I didn’t know exactly what direction I wanted to take this blog when I started it in July of 2004, but looking over the archives there definitely seems to have been a trend away from…
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Augustine’s Enchiridion 1
Partly inspired by Derek’s post on first steps with the fathers, and partly out of a desire to get back to basics, I’ve decided to inagurate this blog with a series on Augustine’s Enchiridion, or “handbook on faith, hope, and love.” This very brief text was written as a response to one of Augustine’s correspondents…
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If I was better looking I could be a TV news anchor
What American accent do you have? Your Result: The West Your accent is the lowest common denominator of American speech. Unless you’re a SoCal surfer, no one thinks you have an accent. And really, you may not even be from the West at all, you could easily be from Florida or one of those big…
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Power, state, and Reformation
Leaving aside the anti-Catholic animus (as well as what seem to be some dubious historical assertions) this is an interesting piece by British journalist Rod Liddle on the deep connections between English culture and Protestant Christianity. There has been a revisionist view, popularized by Eamon Duffy in particular, that Catholicism represented the authentic religion of…
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Christo-fascism, again.
War correspondent Chris Hedges has the latest entry in the impending Christo-fascism sweepstakes with his new book, cleverly titled American Fascists. Read the Salon interview here. LA Times review here. The MO of a lot of these books seems to consist of cherry-picking the few people who actually adhere to a “dominionist” ideology and then…
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Wright on the radio
Via a friend who is a Calvin College grad, here’s a link to a lecture N.T. Wright gave there recently. Also, the lectures Bishop Wright gave at Harvard Memorial Church when he was here last fall are now available online. I haven’t listened to any of these yet, but thought I’d draw folks’ attention to…
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Small Is Beautiful
This looks promsing: in the spirit of Crunchy Cons and Reactionary Radicals, a blog to promote Joseph Pearce’s new book Small Is Still Beautiful, which argues for the continuing relevance of the economic ideas of E.F. Schumacher. From the book description: Joseph Pearce revisits Schumacher’s arguments and examines the multifarious ways in which Schumacher’s ideas…
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Our animal friends and the temptations of fanaticism
Very nice post from *Christopher at Bending the Rule. I was at an Epiphany party last night and was trying to make a qualified case for vegetarianism to a couple of the attendees, without much traction I’m afraid. And it’s hard to do it without coming across as shrill or fanatical. (Though in my defense,…
