January 2011
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“Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?”
– Job 10: 10
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When Nature Presses
Peter Johnston, in today’s Yale Daily News As an undergraduate, I remember being rather proud that Yale did not have snow days. Ensconced with suitemates, I could dutifully gripe that the annual dusting failed to shutter class. But leaving Saybrook, whether watching otherworldly white or wading through wintry wet, joy filled my distending heart: nature would not prevent the purpose of my...
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Charles Woodson: Just One Thought →
Charles Woodson addresses his teammates after Green Bay’s win yesterday over Chicago. Some context: The president of the United States said last week that if the Bears won the NFC Championship game, he and the first family would attend the Super Bowl.
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“He’s going to get an extra bowl of rice tonight!”
– Akiko Tamaoki Ellsworth (my mother), after a pick-six by BJ Raji, Green Bay’s 340 pound defensive tackle, to put the Packers up on the Bears, 21 - 7.
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The Cowling Band →
The band that played Evan and Kristin’s wedding.
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“He taught me how to watch film. Just showed me different ways to study, to...”
– Tramon Williams on Charles Woodson
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When Jesus came into the district of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that the Son of Man is?” And they said, “Some say John the Baptist, but others Elijah, and still others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.” He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” Simon Peter answered, “You are the Messiah, the Son of the living...
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“A Packers fan, a Bears fan, and a Steelers fan are climbing a mountain and...”
– Go Pack Go! Hat tip to my sister Cindy.
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“This just feels so good right now.”
– Aaron Rodgers, QB of the Green Bay Packers
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It's Just a Game. And Oxygen Is Just a Gas. →
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David Stokes: Romantic Orthodoxy
September, 2010 Earlier this year, the English theologian John Milbank offered his assessment of contemporary Christian theology. Writing in the journal “Modern Theology,” Milbank explored what he called a new fault line between theologians.
As he sees it, the line is no longer between conservative and liberal. Not that there aren’t conservatives and liberals. But insofar as the theological...
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WatchFrom the Veritas Forum: Does theism or atheism provide the best foundation for human worth and morality? Can we treat morality as independent of religion? Peter Singer, controversial atheist philosopher and one of Time Magazine’s “100 Most Influential People”, discusses the implications of atheism and theism for morality with John Hare, Noah Porter Professor of Philosophical Theology at Yale....
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The Feast of the Epiphany
A repost: Based on the Gospel according to John, 2: 1 – 11. [PDF] et lui dit: Tout homme sert d’abord le bon vin, puis le moins bon après qu’on s’est enivré; toi, tu as gardé le bon vin jusqu’à présent. Tel fut, à Cana en Galilée, le premier des miracles que fit Jésus. Il manifesta sa gloire, et ses disciples crurent en lui. — Jean 2: 10 – 11 Seventeen years ago in New...
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The Octave of the Nativity
“And when eight days were accomplished for the circumcising of the child, his name was called JESUS, which was so named of the angel before he was conceived in the womb.” — Luke 2:21 Almighty God, whose blessèd Son was circumcised in obedience to the law for our sake and given the Name that is above every name: give us grace faithfully to bear his Name, to worship him in the...