Archive for November, 2008
Friday, November 28th, 2008
The Liturgical Subject
The kind folks at SCM Press sent me a review copy of James G. Leachman’s The Liturgical Subject: Subject, Subjectivity, and the Human Person in Contemporary Liturgical Discussion and Critique.
After Vatican II, there have been many discussions centered on liturgical reform in the Catholic Church. Within this discussion, there are those who interpret the council [...]
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Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
what do you want for xmas?
(Hat Tip: Byron)
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Monday, November 17th, 2008
keeping ordinary time
In the next couple weeks, we’ll be moving out of ordinary time on the liturgical calendar and on into the advent season. I haven’t always kept time with the Christian calendar–not the cheesy Thomas Kinkade ones. But after having lived in Italy for a few years, I’ve noticed that a lot of the social rhythms [...]
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Saturday, November 15th, 2008
sometimes you feel like a nut…
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Thursday, November 13th, 2008
Java Jesus
A few posts back I talked about church franchising and starbucks. In light of this post, I thought it was interesting to actually see this played out in satire. The folks at Beyond Relevance created this short video which I believe gets to the point:
This clip reminded me of another great clip from a film [...]
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Monday, November 10th, 2008
Theology Psychoanalysis and Trauma
Almost 50 years ago, Paul Tillich said that “it is possible
to reject the attempts of some theologians and some psychologists to divide
these two realms [theology and psychoanalysis] carefully and give to each of
them a special sphere … The relationship is not one of existing alongside each
other; it is a relationship of mutual interpenetration” (Theology of [...]
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Thursday, November 6th, 2008
woody allen and barcelona
Is romance destined to be unfulfilled love? When it comes to love, are our choices only between settling for the practical relationship or stumbling upon being found by the romantic?
In his latest movie Vicky Christina Barcelona, Woody Allen explores this question in the beautiful city of Barcelona. Vicky and Christina (Rebecca Hall and Scarlett Johansson) [...]
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Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
practicing resurrection
As I look back on the several books that I read this year, three of them were about the Resurrection. I found myself, this year more than ever, really trying to come to grips with the implications of the claim “Christ is risen.” My desire to understand was not grounded in needing historical proofs, but [...]
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Monday, November 3rd, 2008
desperate for love
i swear i had this dream last night…
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Saturday, November 1st, 2008
I got shacked!
When a good friend passed The Shack on to me, my initial thought was that he was recommending to me the latest from the Oprah book club. I had heard only marginal things about this book, but decided to give it a go. And after reading it, my first impression was pleasantly proved wrong. I [...]