Category Archives: Churchy type

My Church

January 30, 2010 – 10:19 pm

It’s not for lightweights.
In a day when user-friendly is the byword of everything from churches to software, here was worship that asked something of me. No, DEMANDED something of me.
“You don’t know what Theotokos means? Get a book and read about it. You have a hard time standing for 2 hours? Do some sit ups […]

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An update

February 25, 2009 – 10:34 am

Still here, but dealing with a family crisis, repainting the house, fighting with a scam roofing company that owes me a full refund (more on that later), building a fence. Oh, and a new job. I start next Monday. I’m the Facilities Manager for our church. It’s part time, but at least its something.
Too busy […]

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May his memory be eternal

December 16, 2008 – 11:22 am

The blogoshere lost a good man yesterday. Jim Cannon, of Thinking Right, struggled for the last several years with an illness that required a lot of time in hospital. Jim and his father Guy were some of the original members of the Rocky Mountain Alliance of blogs, version 1.
Jim was a good, Godly man and […]

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Daily Obama Fact

November 1, 2008 – 11:34 pm

The Obama campaign says ties to Bill Ayers are important, and should be investigated.
From the Huffington Post:
It turns out that Ayers, a 60s-era radical and former Weathermen member, is linked to GOP Gov. Mark Sanford through their work for the University of South Carolina. Since 2005, Ayers has held the title of “distinguished scholar” at […]

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Filioque

September 13, 2008 – 5:38 am

And now for something entirely different…
I was poking through Sylvia’s blogroll and stumbled across A Catechuman’s Tale. This very fine writer just penned an exceptional post on the Filioque. For the non-Orthodox, a catechumen is someone that is preparing to be accepted by the Church, and the Filioque is a Latin word meaning “and the […]

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