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"Blessed Lord, who hast caused all holy Scriptures to be written for our learning: Grant that we may..."

Sun, 09 Dec 2012 06:00:00 -0800

“Blessed Lord, who hast caused all holy Scriptures to be written for our learning: Grant that we may in such wise hear them, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them, that by patience and comfort of thy holy Word, we may embrace and ever hold fast the blessed hope of everlasting life, which thou hast given us in our Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen.”

- Prayer for the Week, Advent 2

"Almighty God, give us grace to cast away the works of darkness, and put on the armor of light, now..."

Sun, 02 Dec 2012 09:00:00 -0800

“Almighty God, give us grace to cast away the works of darkness, and put on the armor of light, now in the time of this mortal life in which your Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility; that in the last day, when he shall come again in his glorious majesty to judge both the living and the dead, we may rise to the life immortal; through him who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.”

- Prayer for the Week, Advent One

"in a Christian assembly’s regular Sunday worship, a restored and recreated world must be so..."

Tue, 06 Nov 2012 18:00:00 -0800

“in a Christian assembly’s regular Sunday worship, a restored and recreated world must be so vigorously enfleshed in “civic” form as to give the lie to any antithetical civitas… . The assembly is not a political party or a special interest group. But it cannot forget that by grace and favor it is the world made new; that creation, not the state, is a theocracy; and that the freedom with which all people are endowed by the Creator is something which by our own choice is prone to go awry.”

- Aidan Kavanaugh, On Liturgical Theology

"I do not think such care [for the other, that befits their status as human beings] is more likely to..."

Sat, 03 Nov 2012 13:15:49 -0700

““I do not think such care [for the other, that befits their status as human beings] is more likely to be forthcoming or sustained by a natural right theory of justice. Instead, what is required is the recovery of communion made possible through the works of mercy. In particular, a text such as Matthew 25:31-45 makes clear that the works of mercy are not principles or values that then must be translated into a more universal or secular vision of justice. Rather they summon us to participate in God’s redemption by feeding the hungry, giving drink to the thirsty, clothing the naked, harbouring the stranger, visiting the sick, ministering to prisoners and burying the dead. This is how we learn what it means for Jesus to be the justice of God.””

- Hauerwas, on Rights Language and the Justice of God (on Wolterstorff’s Justice: Rights and Wrongs).

npr tiny desk concert.. WILCO! note well, glenn kotche playing...

Tue, 18 Oct 2011 16:59:00 -0700

npr tiny desk concert.. WILCO! note well, glenn kotche playing hilarious desktop percussion

"Life would go out in a ‘fraction of a second’ (that was the phrase), but all night he..."

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 17:12:19 -0700

“Life would go out in a ‘fraction of a second’ (that was the phrase), but all night he had been realizing that time depends on clocks and the passage of light. There were no clocks and the light wouldn’t change. Nobody really knew how long a second of pain could be. It might last a whole purgatory—or for ever.”

- Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory

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Sat, 15 Oct 2011 21:48:14 -0700

the offices of PARLIAMENT DESIGN

Sat, 15 Oct 2011 21:35:00 -0700

the offices of PARLIAMENT DESIGN

"When it is stripped of its mystical sense, even the Eucharist—the mysterion—is no longer about..."

Sat, 15 Oct 2011 20:58:00 -0700

“When it is stripped of its mystical sense, even the Eucharist—the mysterion—is no longer about faith, hope, and charity, but refers to identity, one that forges insiders, with corporate shared values, and outsiders who do not share them. The restoration of the sacramental mystery to any substantialist vision can be a vital corrective to idolatry. This is not only a question of reviving dead matter, or of resisting an impulse to instrumentalize objects of the world; it is also a question of the restoration of an ethics that exceeds the politics of identity, for it seems that modern universalist rationalism cannot defeat substantial logic alone.”

- Regina Mara Schwartz, Sacramental Poetics (via thegroundofmybeseeching)

"It was for this world that Christ had died; the more evil you saw and heard about you, the greater..."

Sat, 15 Oct 2011 20:50:00 -0700

“It was for this world that Christ had died; the more evil you saw and heard about you, the greater glory lay around the death. It was too easy to die for what was good or beautiful, for home or children or a civilization—it needed a God to die for the half-hearted and the corrupt.”

- Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory

"The Lord’s Supper is bread for the world – not simply in virtue of the sacramental bread that..."

Sun, 08 Aug 2010 00:30:08 -0700

“The Lord’s Supper is bread for the world – not simply in virtue of the sacramental bread that is literally shared and consumed, but because it is the sign of a humanity set free for mutual gift and service. The Church’s mission in God’s world is inseparably bound up with the reality of the common life around Christ’s table, the life of what a great Anglican scholar called homo eucharisticus, the new ‘species’ of humanity that is created and sustained by the Eucharistic gathering and its food and drink. Here is proclaimed the possibility of reconciled life and the imperative of living so as to nourish the humanity of others. There is no transforming Eucharistic life if it is not fleshed out in justice and generosity, no proper veneration for the sacramental Body and Blood that is not correspondingly fleshed out in veneration for the neighbour.”

- Rowan Williams, in his recent address to the Lutheran World Federation Assembly.

The first ten minutes of Slavoj Zizek’s recent...

Wed, 04 Aug 2010 02:10:13 -0700

The first ten minutes of Slavoj Zizek’s recent speech…animated! And you’re gonna want to listen to the entire speech, too.

Symposium on Charles Taylor, A Secular Age

Wed, 04 Aug 2010 02:10:04 -0700

Symposium on Charles Taylor, A Secular Age:

what will be distracting me from credited coursework at the library this week

Charles Taylor on secularism at AAR 2009 in Montreal

Wed, 04 Aug 2010 02:09:57 -0700

Charles Taylor on secularism at AAR 2009 in Montreal

NPR's Best Music of 2010 (so far)

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 23:29:00 -0700

NPR's Best Music of 2010 (so far)

one month from today, arcade fire will release their new full...

Sat, 03 Jul 2010 20:33:28 -0700

one month from today, arcade fire will release their new full lenth CD “the suburbs”… in the meanwhile, the 12” “month of may” single gives a hint at what’s to come..give it a spin

Inhabitatio Dei on Yoder's Warsaw Lectures

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 23:31:00 -0700

Inhabitatio Dei on Yoder's Warsaw Lectures

Mumford and Sons

Mon, 31 May 2010 16:34:00 -0700

good show tonight, boys

Timbre Timber

Tue, 30 Mar 2010 23:35:00 -0700

timbre timber, led by this guy in the coonskin hat, opened for low anthem..

Seen: The Low Anthem

Tue, 30 Mar 2010 11:34:00 -0700

tonight, at st. james’ hall (great venue), these three cranked out their tunes on, say, twenty different instruments, ranging from standup bass to crotales to box organ. if you aren’t listening to the low anthem already, now would be a great time to get introduced.