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Up one levelThe Soundtrack of Our Lives
The other evening, as I was preparing our two-year-old son for bed, it occurred to me that the Gospel Canticle for Compline makes a great bedtime prayer. So I sang it for Samuel. As I started chanting, he looked at me, somewhat perplexed. But then, he started this kind of drone humming accompaniment that sounded a bit like chant, so we went with it...
Ministry: Face to Facebook
The past month or two I've been addicted to Facebook. I joined Facebook some time around Christmas, after realizing virtually everyone younger than me used this tool and "Friended" each other on Facebook in order to stay connected. Facebook defines itself as "a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them." It really is an incredibly useful tool...
The Suspended Middle
You’re on the look-out for an introduction to John Milbank or radical orthodoxy. You pick up a book with the title The Suspended Middle: Henri de Lubac and the Debate concerning the Supernatural (Eerdmans, 2005). You put it back down, looking for something seemingly less esoteric. You shouldn’t...
Bonhoeffer and Individual Confession
Lutherans are somewhat unique among “Protestant” confessions that emerged from the Reformation because they retained the use of individual confession and forgiveness. For example, Article XI of the Augsburg Confession reads: “Concerning confession it is taught that private absolution should be retained and not abolished"...