Evolution.
Archbishop of Canterbury on the Pope’s plan to let in the Anglo-Catholics with a minimum of fuss, “which he knew nothing about until two weeks ago.”
Narrow is the gate
“The marginal comment on this delicate passage in the Geneva Bible is entertaining; it stresses that the rich whom the Apostle condemns to weep and howl are the wicked and profane rich.”— Christopher Hill on Puritan interpretations of James 5:1-6, (from The World Turned Upside Down, p.334n)
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“One reason why we Christians argue so much about which hymn to sing, which liturgy to follow, which way to worship is that the commandments teach us to believe that bad liturgy eventually leads to bad ethics. You begin by singing some sappy, sentimental hymn, then you pray some pointless prayer, and the next thing you know you have murdered your best friend.” — Stanley Hauerwas
![“For what is more consonant with faith than to recognize that we are naked of all virtue, in order to be clothed by God? That we are empty of all good, to be filled by him? That we are slaves of sin, to be freed by him? Blind, to be illumined by him? Lame, to be made straight by him? Weak, to be sustained by him? To take away from us all occasion for glorying, that he alone may stand forth gloriously and we glory in him [cf. I Cor. 1:31; II Cor. 10:17]?”
—John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, “Prefatory Address to King Francis,” p. 13.](http://11.media.tumblr.com/FRWBUcp0Cpqdl39dcCM4nf9Go1_400.jpg)
“For what is more consonant with faith than to recognize that we are naked of all virtue, in order to be clothed by God? That we are empty of all good, to be filled by him? That we are slaves of sin, to be freed by him? Blind, to be illumined by him? Lame, to be made straight by him? Weak, to be sustained by him? To take away from us all occasion for glorying, that he alone may stand forth gloriously and we glory in him [cf. I Cor. 1:31; II Cor. 10:17]?”
—John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion
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“The Anglican Church in North America will be formally founded next week, challenging the legitimacy of the U.S. Episcopal Church and posing a dilemma for the worldwide Anglican Communion over who represents Anglicanism in the United States and Canada.”
“My personal observation is that very few congregations are growing by actually reaching ‘real converts’ week-by-week. The evidence that biblical evangelism is actually transforming significant numbers of people is very small. What amazes me is that the ordinary Christian in the typical church doesn’t really care.”
“Instead, what passes as ‘serious academic scholarship’ among many Evangelicals and Reformed amounts to self-affirming dialogues carried on between people who insulate themselves within various ‘safe’ Confessional and publishing contexts.”
Understanding Git
Harvard University has a helpful tutorial on the increasingly-popular distributed version control system known as Git.
Filipino Time
As a Western traveler, I’ve discovered that there are 4 types of time in the Philippines:
- Standard time (professionals and students only)
- Filipino time (the most prevalent type, typically 1 hour late)
- Indian time (no-show for appointment)
Then there’s Mañana time, so forget about GTD today.
Pelikan on the Reformed Tradition
“… it was alien to the Reformed way of teaching to draw ontological parallels between the Eucharist and the incarnation [in contrast to the Lutherans]… . it was a characteristic of Reformed theologians, and [one] not sufficiently grasped by Lutheran polemics, that in their attempts to specify just what the Reformed churches did teach about the Lord’s Supper and how this differed from what other churches taught, they would recur to the doctrine of the Holy Spirit.”
— J. Pelikan, Reformation of Church and Dogma (1300-1700), 202.
