Looking at the requirements for the Ordinariate and Pastoral Provision, it sure seems like Rome isn’t exactly serious in her call to reconciliation with the English church. Sad given Venite ad me. So much good could come…
As a priest I love and cherish pious thoughts at the coffee shop, but I know a living relationship with the Lord has been established when someone starts showing up to help and volunteer on weekdays and Saturday.
This is what plays (very loudly) if you don’t come down in time for history.
First backpacking trip with the boy was a solid success. Now to resist the urge to buy all sorts of new (and better?) gear!
Today in “Deutsch mit Daddy”…
“Fathers might advocate for their families by cheerfully refusing.”
Constructing a Common Good by Agnes Howard
“People don’t break the system; a poorly designed system breaks people.”
Thinking Like a Data Architect by newsletters.feedbinusercontent.com
It turns out sometimes just moving exercises around can make a huge difference. Pull-aparts as a warm-up and shoulder press going first was a game changer! 💪
“A system that cannot make lasting room for a convert’s own tradition, even inside a rite created for exactly that purpose, is not offering the West hospitality. It is offering absorption, and calling the absorption a homecoming.”
Catholicity or Closure by Rev. David Straw
“the true Christian faith is whatever has been believed everywhere, always, and by everyone.”
Catholicity or Closure by Rev. David Straw
“We are not saved by our practices, but certain practices are an inevitable product of salvation.”
After ‘Values’ by Anna Heetdeerks New Contributor
“the first ordination for all Christians happens in baptism.”
New Life in an Old Order: On the Diaconate by Win Mott
“The Tradition of Eucharistic celebration is, as John Zizioulas points out, the concelebration of the whole community, each individual with a part.”
New Life in an Old Order: On the Diaconate by Win Mott
“But there’s a second hurdle that makes it hard for a small but important subset of humanity to understand that chatbots aren’t people: the billionaires to whom nearly everyone isn’t a real person. These solipsists see chatbots as being equivalent (or even superior) to humans, because they don’t think most humans are fully people, either:”
Pluralistic: The Claude Delusion by pluralistic.net
Fathers, don’t ever bring him along when you spend time with your friends. He never needs to hear adults discussing marriage, work, faith, politics, failure, sacrifice, or responsibility. Again, if you’re in a church, do not ever bring the teenage boys on any men’s treats. Ever."
How to Raise a Son Who Is Boring and Unattractive to Women by Anthony B. Bradley
“Parents, make sure he is never forced to engage in mature conversations about life and the world with people your age or older. Do whatever you can to keep him with his peers as much as possible. If you attend church, for example, make sure he is deeply involved in youth ministry, but never allow him to participate in the men’s ministry in any way.
How to Raise a Son Who Is Boring and Unattractive to Women by Anthony B. Bradley
“Fürs Fahrrad brauchen wir aber gar keine Werbung. Radfahren macht allen Menschen Spaß. Sie brauchen dazu lediglich Platz und ein sicheres Umfeld.”
Verkehrsexperte Hermann Knoflacher “Der Autofahrer ist absolut asozial” by Ronja Mößbauer
“Radfahrern wird bewusst, wie furchtbar die Welt durch das Auto wird. Und sie beginnen, ihren Lebensraum, den Lebensraum ihrer Kinder und auch die Natur zu verteidigen.”
Verkehrsexperte Hermann Knoflacher “Der Autofahrer ist absolut asozial” by Ronja Mößbauer
“the smartphone had become a virtual “social passport,” necessary to navigate large swaths of even the offline world.”
Tech Policy’s Libertarian Hangover by Brad Littlejohn
“Ein Virus manipuliert die Zelle… Das Gleiche passiert auch mit der menschlichen Gesellschaft. Diese plant und baut nicht mehr Städte für Menschen, sondern für das Auto.”
Verkehrsexperte Hermann Knoflacher “Der Autofahrer ist absolut asozial” by Ronja Mößbauer
Finished reading: Everything Is Never Enough by Bobby Jamieson 📚
“Prudence is the only principle that can guide us in the right use of technology: a willingness to weigh every proposed innovation and transformation carefully against what we know of human nature, and a recognition that our technologies will in fact shape us and change us.”
Tech Policy’s Libertarian Hangover by Brad Littlejohn
“The deficit in trinitarian faith that afflicts American evangelicalism is no small thing. It results in preaching that pictures Jesus as the way to God, while hardly noticing that Jesus is God already with us, giving us not only salvation but God himself in his own flesh.”
William Lane Craig and Evangelicalism’s Trinitarian Deficit by Phillip Cary
“Ironically, this unthinking repetition confirms one of Socrates’s greatest fears: that a society blessed with the written word would content itself with thoughtlessly regurgitating facts divorced from context and excuse itself from the trouble of wrestling with living ideas.”
Tech Policy’s Libertarian Hangover by Brad Littlejohn
165 miles in August! It’s been so, so great getting back on the bike. Exercise, commute, and fun all at the same time. 🚲
