June 2011
3 posts
Seraph 1995 - 2011
Six months ago I put down my Bengal Girl Companion after she wasted away before my eyes. I miss her every day. It is telling I think how much we love our animal companions. Seraph, who had wing patterns on her shoulders, was my constant companion always interested in what I was eating or my breath for meals past.
When I was ill she became “nurse puss” patiently (not generally her...
September 2010
2 posts
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July 2010
9 posts
“Time and its synonym progress have crept up on him [people in the west] and...”
– Karl Jung Memories, Dreams, Reflections [240]
Is There An APP for God?
Christians in American have largely uncritically accepted any advance in technology. In this we are more American than Christian. I find in my own work that the devices I use also use me. There is no remedy for this save that I use these devices to gather people to practice the anti-device wisdom of the faith.
It is useful to use the communication technology to set meetings, organize the...
Soul Work Is Not Gossip
“…a form of healing seems to take place when we find a truly sympathetic ear for our more difficult struggles. Just the opposite occurs when we confide in someone who is simply not interested or is secretly scared to death of what we have just revealed. Goethe begins with a famous German poem with the admonition, ‘Tell a wise person or else keep silent.’” The Heart Aroused –...
“Praise, my soul, the King of heaven;
to his feet thy tribute bring;
ransomed,...”
– Words: Henry Francis Lyte (1793-1847), 1834 MIDI: Lauda anima (also known as “Praise, my soul”) (John Goss, 1800-1880)
Too long
It has been much too long since I have posted. I will work at not allowing this to happen again.
November 2009
10 posts
“Maranatha, Come Lord, Jesus”
Come, Lord Jesus?
The first Sunday of Advent (the four Sundays preceding Christmas) has a focus not on the coming of Jesus in the flesh but his second appearing at the end of the age. There are lots of second coming jokes in the culture. My favorite is two priests talking. One says, “It’s true Jesus has just returned.” “Oh,” said the other. “What should we do?” “Look...
October 2009
1 post
Royalty.nu - Nero's Rotating Banquet Hall Unveiled... →
September 2009
8 posts
“My effort has been to not only put the Biblical incident in the original setting...”
– Henry Ossawa Tanner
Smarthistory, a multimedia web-book about art:... →
“Some people, intent on severe disciplinary precepts, admonish us to rebuke the...”
– Saint Augustine — From Faith and Works 4.6
August 2009
19 posts
Church Times - Enthusiasts turn up to honour... →
The Futher Back You Can Look ...
Winston Churchill once said that backward looking aids in forward seeing. Looking to the past in order to inform the present and bring vision to the future is a creative posture. For several years I have been thinking about the early church. That is, in and of itself, not that unusual for a priest, but I am intrigued by the conditions facing the Church in the first two centuries and those facing...
“The further back you can look the farther forward you are likely to see.”
– Winston Churchill
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Beautiful Place - Great Food - Historical Treasure
“The Shakers’ were devoted to productive work (their legacy includes such...”
– Raymond Biel
Saint Mary the Virgin
There is a famous story told about the actress from Alabama, Talulah Bankhead, who attended high mass at the Episcopal Church of Saint Mary the Virgin in Manhattan. Once during the porcession down the asile, Miss Bankhead reached out and grabed the Thurifier by the sleeve of his lace surplice and said, “Darling, your dress is divine but your purse is on fire!”
Washing away your sins: the Macbeth effect |... →