Tofu Tidbits* 12/3/11

  1. Good news on religious freedom.
  2. A little religious humor.
  3. Ancient religious wall paintings.
  4. Saddleback Satchel Send-Up.
  5. Republican terrorism promoters (and their harems).
  6. Slanted journalism.
  7. Poetry recommendation.

* Temporarily renamed in honor of the Nativity Fast, about which Mystagogy has some more information.

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Calvinist Concessions galore – why not Orthodoxy?

I seldom comment critically on Reformed Christianity – Calvinism, my last waystation before Orthodoxy – but a very telling set of concessions from a Calvinist scholar leaves me wondering what thoughtful Calvinists think they stand to lose by

  • giving up on restoring missing elements of balance to Calvinism and
  • returning to the Church that never abandoned those elements.

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