"We are travellers…not yet in our native land" – St. Augustine
A while back my friend Brock gave a talk at the Goretti Group entitled “Pornography: Fighting the Dragon of Lust”. I found out that the video of the talk was put up on the Goretti YouTube channel:
His talk reminded me of a quotation by one of my favourite English, Catholic apologists…
“Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed” – G. K. Chesterton
I’ve posted videos of song and dance numbers before, but I think this is my favourite…
A few weeks ago I did a post on the subject of Christians and tattoos, linking to a couple of articles which addressed that question from different perspectives. As a result, some of my Christian friends started talking about their tattoos on Facebook…
Despite my own feelings on the subject, I found the whole thing fascinating. So, in a follow-up post, I asked people to submit a picture of their tattoo and the story behind it. Below are the three submissions I received.
Points will be deducted for spelling, punctuation and grammar.
Don’t worry, that wasn’t one of them… 🙂
Brain worship. It’s safe, it’s easy, and it’s 18 inches from life change
– Mark Hall, Lifestories
Last week I posted the audio from Dr. Michael Barber’s Theology On Tap. In this most recent Theology On Tap series we also had Matt Franklin come and give a presentation. His talk was called “Sweet Surrender: Are you a fan or follower of Jesus?”
Main Talk (Download)
Q&A (Download)
A lot of people know about the Book of Mormon, but what’s the “Book of Abraham”?
I remember watching an episode of the TV show “QI” several years ago where the host, Stephen Fry, in a flabbergasted fashion explained to the panelists and audience that the Catholic Church denounces superstition. From his atheistic viewpoint he couldn’t see any different between spirituality and superstition.
A couple of days ago there was a great article by Michelle Arnold on this topic of superstition which I think is well worth a read:
As Catholics we have a rich faith with a wealth of devotions, but these can all-too-easily devolve into mechanistic superstition where we treat God and the Saints as our personal genie.
What do you think we can do to stop this happening?