Friday Frivolity: Old Testament Altarcation
Author: pilgrim
Time to dessert
If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you may have noticed that I’ve been slacking for a while. I haven’t really written anything substantial for at least a month. Sure, I’ve published every day, but the posts have been extremely brief.
At the beginning of October I began a new series, The Bogwash Epistles, a spin-off of C.S. Lewis’ Screwtape Letters. Despite having notes for the next ten or so letters, I only completed a few. I had also intended to do a series of posts to supplement the talk I gave at Theology On Tap, expanding on some of the areas I had to truncate due to time constraints. That didn’t happen. I had wanted to do a post examining the logic of those who oppose Halloween. Nope, that didn’t happen either… 🙁
The last two months have certainly been busy, so time has been at a premium, but even though now my time constraints have relaxed a little I feel like I don’t have the “head space” to do much writing.
This is all a long-winded way of saying that I’m going to take another blogging hiatus. I’m going to take a break from writing for all of December. As before, quotations from the Desert Fathers are scheduled to keep you company while I’m away.
I’ve been studying Hosea recently and in that book the Lord speaks through His prophet saying that He will draw Israel back out into the desert, to the place where she first encountered Yahweh. It is there that He will speak tender words to her, restore her and rekindle the Divine Romance. I’ve booked myself a weekend silent retreat, blocked Facebook and cancelled a bunch of activities I had planned for December. I think t’s time to head back to the desert…
“Evil shows God does not exist”
Trent Horn’s new book Answering Atheism has finally been released. Today I’m posting the final short video responding to the common claims of Atheists:
My shipment of books has now arrived. Those of you to whom I promised a book, please expect it sometime soon.
Wise Words on Wednesday: Alumni
Many of the alumni who have attended the university before you fill the seats. The fans, the band, and your teammates are Wolverines. You are family alongside them. The Wolverine family. They want you to win. They consider themselves part of your team even though their time at the university has already come and gone. You are a part of a team who is encouraged by a huge team of fans not only in the stadium but also watching on televisions in bars and homes and listening on radios in cars and trucks all
– Jeff Cavins, “I’m not being fed!”
Kicking it with Einstein
Put out into the deep
If you want to grow deeper in your faith, I’d highly recommend the free courses at the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology:
Liturgy of St. James Audio
Quite some time ago in the JP2 Group we studied the Liturgy of St. James. Today I finished recording the text onto MP3::
Liturgy of St. James
Part of my reason for putting these documents onto MP3 is to make it easier for people to understand how the Early Church worshiped. Unfortunately, there are a lot of myths out there about what these early services looked like. Personally, I find it really interesting looking at the development of liturgy through the centuries, growth and continuity: