April 2012
44 posts
March 2012
94 posts
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“After all, the surest way to uphold or restore our endangered Church, will be...”
– John Keble, Presbyter and Renewer of the Church, 1866 in “National Apostasy”
“If Jesus is indeed what God communicates to us, God’s language for us, his cross...”
– Rowan Williams, Writing In the Dust (via invisibleforeigner)
“The unity of Christendom is no longer a beautiful dream. It is a pressing...”
– Charles Henry Brent, Bishop of the Philippines, and of Western New York, 1929 in “The Authority of Christ”
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“While much of [Paul’s] writing was done in less than perfect conditions...”
– Chris Yaw, quoted in “Emma of Hawaii vs. Paul of Tarsus” from Lent Madness
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“The church is radically inclusive and baptism is the means by which people are...”
– Tobias Stanislas Haller BSG
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“Soul of Christ, sanctify me: Body of Christ, save me: Blood of Christ inebriate...”
– from “Drunk on Smoke” in “Censing” (4-5) by the Rev’d Dr Richard Major (from The Epic of God, or the Freeze-Frame Mass)
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“You may take away from us, if you will, every eternal ceremony; you may take...”
– James De Koven, Presbyter, to General Convention 1874
“The climax of the gospel contains two great miracles. One is obvious, the one...”
– Sam Wells, Be Not Afraid (via invisibleforeigner) (via zurik)
Shades of Gray: Debunking Debunking →
authorlauralee:
There was recently an episode of the television series House in which an ailing novitiate comes in to the hospital for a diagnosis. One of the doctors on House’s team came to medicine after dropping out of the seminary. He tries to test the faith of the aspiring nun by asking…
“No heresy has ever raised up so radically and so completely against the
God-Man...”
– Archimandrite Saint Justin Popovic, “Man and God-Man”, Athens, 1987
However, Orthodox shouldn’t get cocky about it. Philetism is far more disgusting and inexcusable.
(via rudysnotes)
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“In the mid-sixteenth the tyrant Henry VIII, surely the wickedest person ever to...”
– An Anglo-Catholic view on Thomas Cranmer, from “Kyrie” (4-5) by the Rev’d Dr Richard Major (from The Epic of God, or the Freeze-Frame Mass)
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“The contemporary American church is so largely enculturated to the American...”
– Walter Bruggemann in The Prophetic Imagination
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“I die in the Holy Catholic and Apostolic Faith, professed by the whole Church...”
– Thomas Ken, Bishop of Bath and Wells 