"A complaining, vindictive monk, prone to anger, cannot exist,” said Abba Poimen. “That is to say that, any who have such faults are not actually monks, even if they wear the schema.”
Now we bring you another installment of Wednesday Linkage. There's a lot happening "on campus" this week. So, take a few moments to gaze about. In the mean, I am going to continue to enjoy the warm weather we are having in Chicago. It's going to rain over the weekend. That's a shame...a predictable shame, but a shame no less. Trish and I are off to Michigan for the weekend. I am looking forward to getting out of the Chi-metro area for a few days. Oh! And I get a break from preaching. I love the preaching. But it is good to have a break. So, come to Community Church and hear someone else preach.campus happenings
Sister Julie is posting about praying the hours.
Amy has posted ten things about being a pastor.
AKMA was interviewed on Open Source Radio. Way cool!
Michael Westmorland-White has asked "What is theology?"
Mike thinks that resurrection in politically subversive.
“I forbid him to raise the dead," Herod says. "This man must be found and told I don’t allow people to raise the dead.”Herod knows that, as a tyrant, his primary tool of oppression is the threat of death. And so Jesus coming along raising the dead is a major threat to Herod's power. If God really will raise the dead, then this seriously undermines the powers of tyranny and injustice that ruled the world in Jesus' day, and continue to rule the world in our own time as well.
almost current events
Shane Claibourn of Nu Monasticism fame was featured on Speaking of Faith. This is an interesting interview.
William Cavanaugh: Moral Reasoning or Just Trust the President?...ala beliefnet...
Here is an article on "preaching the whole gospel."
Is Newt really donning Falwell's crown? Read the Washington Post article.
Pope Benedict's new book is a "departure" from Catholic tradition. Here's the review.
The Christian Century posted this musing about tattoos. It's almost interesting.
First Things is talking about death.
1) The losses human beings suffer are the deepest reason for culture,Here is an LA Times article on the "democracy of blogging" and literary reviews. It's almost interesting, too.
(2) The fundamental pattern for any community is a congregation at a funeral,
(3) A healthy society requires a lively sense of the reality and continuing presence of the dead.
Let me put this bluntly, in language even a busy blogger can understand: Criticism — and its humble cousin, reviewing — is not a democratic activity. It is, or should be, an elite enterprise, ideally undertaken by individuals who bring something to the party beyond their hasty, instinctive opinions of a book (or any other cultural object). It is work that requires disciplined taste, historical and theoretical knowledge and a fairly deep sense of the author's (or filmmaker's or painter's) entire body of work, among other qualities.