Anglican Communion News Service: Joint Statement by The Archbishop of Westminster and The Archbishop of Canterbury. Vatican makes it easier for Anglicans to convert; creates new provision within Catholic Church. When the disciples were enjoined to be fishers of men, was the body of water specified? It must have been, for Cardinal Walter Kasper of […]
Archives for October 2009
The Heavenly Physician
I never intended to write a blog every day, but it has been a quite a few days since I last wrote anything. Truth to tell, I haven’t been feeling at all well since Thanksgiving (12 October). After preparing a large turkey feast, I had such a severe back ache that I felt nauseated and […]
Conservative Bible Project – Conservapedia
Conservative Bible Project – Conservapedia. I have discovered, after a visit to Conservapedia.com’s Bible project, that a chunk of the Church in the Benighted States seems to think that the Christian virtues of inclusiveness, charity and forgiveness that radiate from the New Testament I read may be no more than mistranslations, induced by liberal bias, […]
Barbara’s Vest
Back in March Barbara gave me a button-up vest for my 65th birthday. The label said ‘large’, but it was far too small for my extra-large torso, so I thought it would be a better fit for Vish, Barbara’s husband, and suggested she gave it to him. She demurred, however, and told me that I […]
Just Thinking about a Just Society
Today, I heard from a group of panelists on the CBC that it was improper to apply tests based on a Western worldview to determine if foreign-born Canadians returning from visits abroad were, in fact, who they said they were. This is because a Somali lady (Suaad Hagi Mohamud) who had been visiting relatives in […]