Women Priests? I love it when a reviewer is bold enough to say "This book is rubbish." Honesty and confidence! Although, if that's all she can say, she won't get a hearing; I want to hear reasons for her belief. I just read this blog post titled "Merlin Stone's book is rubbish", and though I had never heard the author's name before I immediately wanted to read that article.
Pies, pies, pies... Three women collaborated on a book, which as soon as I read about it I had to have sent as a birthday gift for my granddaughter. It may be a bit early for her, but I like to encourage little girls to start taking a creative role in the kitchen and to look to real grownups for inspiration.
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I haven't seen the book yet, but I've enjoyed Anne Marie's blog in particular. The clean and elegant style is nice to surf around in and see snippets of the Klaske Family's farm life. On Thursdays you can get inspired to bake pies!
Death of the Old Man: Father Stephen Freeman shared a link to his daughter's blog, on St. John of the Cross and the loss of identity, or the Dark Night of the Soul, or the "death of the old man." Actually the subtitle of the post is "The Loss and Discovery of our Identity in God" (italics mine), so it ends on a very positive note, to be sure.
She writes, "If we had always thought of the death of our old man as purely symbolic, it may come as something of a shock to think of real pain being involved. But when our turn inevitably comes to go through pain or tragedy, then we may take comfort in knowing that many have travelled down this path before us."
Icons and Images: A book on the history of the use and theology of images in Jewish culture and in the church is the subject of this blog post on Orthodox-Reformed Bridge. Early Christian Attitudes Toward Images is written by Stephen Bigham, and a series of four blog posts is planned to review the book. This structure follows the organization of the book:
The book is divided into four chapters. Chapter 1 deals with the “hostility theory” which holds that the early Christians were hostile toward images. Chapter 2 deals with early Jewish attitudes toward images. Chapter 3 deals with the early Christian attitudes towards images, that is, the pre-Constantinian period. Chapter 4 deals with Eusebius of Caesarea who witnessed the beginning of Constantinian era.The author is an Orthodox priest, and the blogger Robert Arakaki was Reformed in his theology before converting to Orthodoxy. I'm looking forward to reading all the reviews of what looks to be a thorough treatment of the subject.
Beethoven in Space: Lastly, here's a music video featuring Hubble images and beautiful music. A blessed weekend to you all!
6 comments:
That was some very fruitful gleaning, GJ! As a matter of fact, I am eating a big slice of homemade peach pie for breakfast this morning, as I type this :) My mother made it yesterday but we were all too full to have any last night. I told her Pie For Breakfast is a grand thing!
Fr. Stephen lives in Quebec; he is lovely; whenever I would see him serve he would pray for many in general including 'all the lonely', which I never forgot...
I will have to check out that blog!
My goodness, rubbish indeed regarding that book on female-God etc...
Sigh.
Got your comment RE: your relative. Grief is so difficult. Have added her to my prayer list.
That video is absolutely beautiful. Thank you for sharing it.
I love that you said that too, " This book is rubbish." I will be checking that blog out.
I am so happy that you talked about St. John of the Cross and the dark night of the soul. No one I know ever knows what I am talking about when for what ever reason we are allowed to walk through one and be in one. I was in one and I couldn't understand it then I ran across that book and when I say, it saved my life I truly meant it. It made sense of what I couldn't describe.
I love the quote you used, because I thought the same thing and felt some of the kinship of when we are in the midst of a dark night of the soul.
The pie books are wonderful looking.
Thanks for sharing.
I think that's awesome...there are plenty of books that are rubbish! I started reading "Eat Pray Love," which was given so many good reviews and then even made into a movie...but c'mon, I don't want to hear her whine about her depressing life!
The pie cookbook looks awesome. We went to a friends house a few weeks ago, she often makes apple pies, but since peaches are in season, she made her first (and likely last) peach pie. It was SO delicious, but too messy and hard to take the flesh off the pit and cut each one into slices, she said. Looks like a peach pie on the cover...wonder what their recipe suggests? ♥ I hope your granddaughter enjoys it!
what a waste of a perfectly good tree!
as to the pie book...more please!
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