Orthodixie

Pics from my trip to Kodiak, Alaska (including Spruce Island, St Herman Seminary, Monks Lagoon, St Innocent Academy, and St Nilus Island) …

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“We are supposed to live in a skeptical age. In fact, we live in an age of outrageous credulity. The ‘death of God,’ or at least the dying of the Christian God, has been accompanied by the birth of a plethora of new idols. They have multiplied like bacteria on the corpse of the Christian Church–from strange pagan cults and sects to the silly, sub-Christian superstitions of ‘The Da Vinci Code’.”

More H E R E from the Pertinacious Papist.

HT: Anglican TK

Heh heh.

Wanna read two excellent books at once? I recommend Eco’s Foucault’s Pendulum and its companion: the Oxford English Dictionary.

John Danforth, former Republican senator, former U.N. ambassador under President Bush, and an Episcopal priest …

… says a conservative push to ban gay marriage through a constitutional amendment is silly, calling it the latest example of how the political influence of evangelical Christians is hurting the GOP.

Story.

FWIW, read the 2003 Orthodox Bishops’ (SCOBA) statement H E R E.

“When I was a teenager back in the 1940s, I thought there was something wrong with our church because we were not changing, and I wondered, ‘What is the problem?’ ” said Isaiah, now 75 and metropolitan (bishop) of the Denver metropolis for 13 years.

“After 44 years as a priest, I realize why we haven’t changed,” he said.

“(The church) reflects what Paul the Apostle says of Jesus Christ, that he is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow. That means that truth is absolute, it is not relative,” he said. “We can say that we belong to a church that has not changed in almost 2,000 years.”

Taken from the Houston Chronicle.

More H E R E.

The Ten Commandments
by Anonymous

I. -Have thou no other gods but me,

II. -And to no image bow thy knee.

III. -Take not the name of God in vain:

IV. -The sabbath day do not profane.

V. -Honour thy father and mother too;

VI. -And see that thou no murder do.

VII. -Abstain from words and deeds unclean;

VIII. -Nor steal, though thou art poor and mean.

IX. -Bear not false witness, shun that blot;

X. -What is thy neighbor’s covet not.

-These laws, O Lord, write in my heart, that I,
-May in thy faithful service live and die.

Taken from the April 29th Writer’s Almanac.

New Book / Review:

CHRISTIAN FAITH AND SAME-SEX ATTRACTION

Esolen on Knowing One’s Place:

“Now here is a question: how many ills of our day stem simply from an abandonment of one’s place, or from a refusal to acknowledge that one must occupy any place at all — unless it is a place entirely of one’s own choosing, with everyone casting himself as Supreme Architect? How many English teachers will not condescend simply to teach English? How many scientists will not stick to science? How many husbands abandon their posts as husbands? How many wives in America these days will even concede that there is such a thing as a place for a wife, let alone that they should not abandon it? How many of the laity hold their ministers in bondage? How many priests find preaching the word too onerous? How many of us scorn the ordinary, and with it — though we don’t want to admit it — the Ordainer who made us for its duties and its rewards?”

The whole thing.

TM on the TK …

“I hear rumors about people called Web Elves. Or perhaps it is only one person or being who does not sleep. This is a mystery. But one thing is for sure. All over the world there are reporters who look to CaNN as the quickest and most up-to-date guide to the wacky world of online Anglican URLs. It is hard to remember what the Anglican Communion was like before Binky. The odds are good that he will outlive it.”

– Professor Terry Mattingly, journalist, Get Religion Editor

Oh, and tmatt can even ADD!

“The basic idea is becoming familiar. Rising numbers of Europeans are making lifestyle choices that are resulting in the decline of the old cultures on the Continent. In other words, they are not conceiving many children or allowing many of the ones that are conceived to be born. Meanwhile, Muslim families are moving into Europe and growing. Do the math.”

What?