Category: Calvinism

Christianity in a radically different key

I have cited and quoted Fr. Stephen Freeman a great deal in this blog. His quiet learning and wisdom (not the same thing) have made him one of my very favorite Orthodox bloggers.

With Friday as an exception (which I nevertheless cited and quoted yesterday), he tries to “write within the known bounds of the Eastern Orthodox faith.” So when he uses his distinctive trope – “Christ didn’t come to make bad men good, but to make dead men live” or simply “morality is not Christian” – that is a bit shocking.

His expression is not any part of standard Orthodox “insider lingo,” but I’m convinced that it truthfully teases out something that’s deeply Orthodox, and helps makes sense of it.

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Tasty Tidbits 7/9/11

Here’s today’s Tasty Tidbits. It got really long so I took some bigger-than-tidbit items away and will post separately, perhaps:

  1. From Billy Graham to Sarah Palin…
  2. The Unknowable God and the knowable Bugs Bunny.
  3. Pugnacious Pat misses one, but comes close.
  4. ‘Mendoucheous.”
  5. June job numbers and the optimist in hell.
  6. “Pomodoro”?!
  7. Priceless!
  8. We will raise, or smash, the debt ceiling.
  9. Masson graphically provides perspective.
  10. Does anybody actually work any more?
  11. “True Religion” lies like hell.
  12. Evernote.

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Tasty Tidbits 7/1/11

Here’s today’s tasty tidbits:

  1. Evangelicals lose political influence; should they thank God for that?
  2. McCarthyism in the darndest places
  3. The cost of freedom?
  4. Why should the Scots have had so many good preachers?
  5. An un-Reformed clergyman addresses a once-Reformed denomination.
  6. Bereft!
  7. OCD Strikes AmConMag.
  8. Is the root of the problem something other than Islam itself?
  9. Near miss?
  10. Disneyfication provokes cyber-attack.

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John 6:60-63, 66 (MSGV)

John 6:60-63 Therefore, many of His disciples, when they heard this, said “This is a hard saying; who can uncerstand it? When Jesus knew in Himself that His disciples complained about this, He said to them, “Does this offend you?” What then if you should see the Son of Man ascend where He was before? Anyway, I was just jerkin’ around with you with that “eat my body, drink my blood” stuff. It’s all figurative. Y’all know, don’t ya, that Christianity will be all about angels’n’feelin’ good about yourself? … From that time, many of His disciples went back and walked with Him no more. (More Spiritual than God Version) Continue reading “John 6:60-63, 66 (MSGV)” →