conjectural navel gazing; jesus in lint form

tuesday internet gleanings...

"The world is waiting ... for new saints, ecstatic men and women who are so deeply rooted in the love of God that they are free to imagine a new international order."

-Henri Nouwen

Today some will honor Phillips Brooks. It is the Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, preacher and spiritual writer, (1893). According to this daily e-mail I receive, he once wrote "Orthodoxy is, in the Church, very much what prejudice is in the single mind. It is the premature conceit of certainty. It is the treatment of the imperfect as if it were the perfect." I would love to know the context for that quotation. Brooks was a pretty "orthodox" guy.

In other news, the Young Fogey pointed out this little article: "US Plans Broad Attack on Iran."

The Young Fogey also posted on the death of ecumenism. Prior Peter (an actual monk in Chicago), and Jorge had a lot to say. I feel as though my sermon from Sunday pretty much covered the bases of my perspective on this. But I will add that as long as there are people in the church there will be division. We have always struggled with one another in this endeavor called "Christianity." In the light of Brook's words above, very few of us have ever been 100% orthodox in the first place. It is not that we are not all called to "love the Lord with all our hearts, minds, and bodies." But, skippy, the failure rate is quite high. Lord, have mercy.

Posted by tripp at January 23, 2007 06:44 AM