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Thankless Days, Dreamless Nights: Second week of Lent
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Thankless Days, Dreamless Nights. What is it that keeps you through them? Second week of Lent. In my last post, one of my Lenten fasts was from driving to church. Today marks ten days since Ash Wednesday (eight not counting the Sundays, as is proper) - I'm 20% of the way through the season. And I have not honored that fast once. Bugger if I know, but it's never the day to argue this stuff. By the time I arrived, I was fifteen minutes late. Just late enough to completely. For all that I contributed, I cou...
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Thankless Days, Dreamless Nights: In the world, but not of it, but for it
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Thankless Days, Dreamless Nights. What is it that keeps you through them? In the world, but not of it, but for it. During the rampage of theological gushing I went on this week, I passed through Slacktivist's " NRA: Not of this world. A kvetch about the author's interpretation of "worldliness.". Where Fred, pointing to the darkness of the World's Worst Books, makes a statement about what it is to be Christian well. So when I found that I was gonna be a first-page commenter, I decided to add one in. That'...
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Thankless Days, Dreamless Nights: Lent 2013
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Thankless Days, Dreamless Nights. What is it that keeps you through them? My writing here is an expansion of my comment there. This Lent is going to be special. I have only two hard-and-fast rules for Lent. One of them is traditional, the other personal. I have no idea how much money I'm actually saving by this. Really, I should start planning a budget come Easter.). That part of Lent first becomes salient tomorrow. Wish me luck. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Is a work in progress. Awesome Inc....
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Thankless Days, Dreamless Nights: February 2013
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Thankless Days, Dreamless Nights. What is it that keeps you through them? Second week of Lent. In my last post, one of my Lenten fasts was from driving to church. Today marks ten days since Ash Wednesday (eight not counting the Sundays, as is proper) - Im 20% of the way through the season. And I have not honored that fast once. Bugger if I know, but its never the day to argue this stuff. By the time I arrived, I was fifteen minutes late. Just late enough to completely. For all that I contributed, I could...
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Thankless Days, Dreamless Nights: Biblical docetism
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Thankless Days, Dreamless Nights. What is it that keeps you through them? It's been quite a week, and I have next to nothing to show for it. so let's pick up where I left off. Sometime around the discussion of Gnostic Christianity. I stumbled across Defeating the Dragons. Courtesy of Slacktivist), who posted this:. There is a term for what happened in those two examples, and it has actually been referred to as “the evangelical heresy” (and no, I’m not talking about. And I wound up having to respond to it.
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Thankless Days, Dreamless Nights: On confession
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Thankless Days, Dreamless Nights. What is it that keeps you through them? Each prayer of the Daily Office has a prayer of confession at the start; in theory you could say five a single day (plus litanies.) None of these are sacramental in the sense that James was talking about; and while we *do* have a rubric for Reconciliation, the refrain about it is that "Any can, some should, none must.". Be wrong. To confess is to word our weakness, to learn words to confront it as we must. Is a work in progress.
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Thankless Days, Dreamless Nights: January 2013
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Thankless Days, Dreamless Nights. What is it that keeps you through them? Standing vigil for the dying. Standing vigil for the dying. Comes a time past rhyming when. There are no words to say. So weary and worn away. Are litany and commendation. Standing vigil for the dying. And no toil and no trying. Can yield them a worthy creation. There are no words to say. They dawdle in the time of desperation. Standing vigil for the dying. When comes the time of crying. Unprepared are words of consolation. Unanswe...
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Thankless Days, Dreamless Nights: November 2012
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Thankless Days, Dreamless Nights. What is it that keeps you through them? There were two of us for dinner that night, only two of us. And despite eating naught but leftovers for two days, we couldn't find an appetite for much. In the end we ordered a tureen of chicken-coconut soup and a plate of pad thai. But the soup was creamy, and the noodles were cellophaney, and the rice crackers still sizzled when you dipped them in any kind of liquid. Thank you, Bangkok, for being there after all these years.
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Thankless Days, Dreamless Nights: Best 101ing ever
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Thankless Days, Dreamless Nights. What is it that keeps you through them? The annotated version of this story runs as follows:. I just realized my faith was kinda Gnostic. Wow. This changes things. Why do Christians worry so much about being heretical? Because heresy leads to horrible consequences. I get that, but why are horrible consequences bad? Even liberal Christians seem to reject them for no good reason. There's always a relevant xkcd. Labels: the daily suckage. Afterall, there are so many of them.
