If you are itching for an Old Testament sermon, Iâd love to hear feedback âď¸
on YouTube I am constantly blocking: ⢠Republican ads â˘Â crypto ads â˘Â AI ads â˘Â sports betting ads đ make it stop
My first Substack post in awhile. Here's an old sermon from August. I don't preach often so it is meaningful to me. open.substack.com/pub/benofcom...
A holy coincidence for St. Ignatius is that the Episcopal Daily Office Lectionary today appoints Luke 9.23, âIf any man would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross dailyâŚâ âď¸
I was skeptical of The Penguin, but I'm loving it
ALT: a close up of a man making a funny face with his mouth open in the dark .
Since people are talking about Sanctuary Cities again, just your regular reminder that â as I note in American Prophets â the entire concept was actually a faith-based effort, which was itself an outgrowth of the original clergy-led Sanctuary Movement.
Iâve also been thinking about this wrt to religion and spirituality. In some ways itâs unavoidable even if you donât like this water we swim in
i think that there is a type of person who treats politics as fundamentally a type of discourse, and all political acts as fundamentally discursive rather than material. this is why people say that they are not voting "to make a statement:" political action consists of statements made the powerful.
Do they sell editions of the New Testament that include some other contemporary Christian literature up to the early-mid second centuryâeg the Shepherd, Didacheâin an appendix? That would seem useful âď¸
sorry forgot to alt text: Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, "The Virgin Adoring the Host" (1852) www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...