The Hermeneutics Quiz
My girls are forever taking on-line quizzes. They’ll sit there giggling and bonding as they try to discover together which Harry Potter character each is, or which “Saved By The Bell” character each is most like. I just sit and quietly listen to the laughter and thank God that I have kids. Well, last month [...]
An Islamic Pascal’s Wager
For some reason I was thinking about Pascal’s Wager today. I have never been a huge fan or it, or any other attempt to make faith more an act of man’s reason than God’s grace. (Not that I think faith is unreasonable.) It occured to me that perhaps the biggest flaw with Pascal’s Wager is [...]
Rules For Living
Cultivate kindness, patience, gratitude and wonder Practice forgiveness Deal with the concrete person before you, not abstractions, generalizations of characterizations Cause no unnecessary suffering Be a good steward Put people ahead of things Do the little things when you can Be present where you are Develop a right relationship with food Pray consistently Devour the [...]
A Legacy of Faith
I was just handed a copy of this book by my pastor, who won’t have time to read it until after Lent. Apparently Rick Hathaway lives somewhere near me, and he came by the church and gave the pastor a copy. I’ve skimmed it and read the first two chapter just now at lunch, and [...]
The Unchanging God Moved By Love
A discussion I first saw at Ancient Hebrew Poetry and then followed over to MetaCatholic on theopaschitism and the impassibility of God reminded me of something that I “grasped” in a meditation on the death of Christ a few Easter’s back but never developed and promptly forgot about. Doug at MetaCatholic writes: The mystery of [...]