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Monday, May 6, 2002 |
Names and instructions for eight different neck-tie knots.
8:21:34 PM 
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Lots of cool stuff in this release. I'm especially interested in the Rendezvous technology, also known as ZeroConf. [Scripting News]
6:58:31 PM
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I got the following quote from Bp. Kallistos Ware's book Ordinary Graces from the Daily Dig email newsletter. Bp. Kallistos seems to have been inspired by C. S. Lewis here.
God does not condemn us to Hell; God wishes all humans to be saved. He will love us to all eternity, but there will exist the possibility that we do not accept that love and do not respond to it. And the refusal to accept love, the refusal to respond to it, that precisely is the meaning of Hell. Hell is not a place where God puts us, it's a place where we put ourselves. The doors of Hell, insofar as they have locks, have locks on the inside.
10:27:54 AM
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I think it's ironic that this conflict is now centered on a church that commemorates the birth of Jesus, which was announced by angels to nearby shepherds with the message, "peace on Earth, goodwill towards men." May God extend the peace of His kingdom to this region through His church. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]
9:58:20 AM
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I read Isaiah 31 in morning prayer, which starts out:
Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help
and rely on horses,
who trust in chariots because they are many
and in horsemen because they are very strong,
but do not look to the Holy One of Israel
or consult the Lord!
Isaiah is saying it is foolish to trust in the strength of earthly powers while ignoring the power of God. One of the reasons Isaiah gives in verse 3 caught my attention.
The Egyptians are men, and not God;
and their horses are flesh, and not spirit.
We usually think of the spiritual as something insubstantial. However, the material nature of horses is portrayed as weakness in comparison to the spiritual.
8:47:29 AM
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I'm posting a whole email from Brother Jerome, who writes a daily reflection on the Rule of St. Benedict in the Oblate Forum mailing list. I think it is amazing that Br. Jerome refers to the Psalm 115:1 (which is Ps. 113, 2nd part:1 in the Vulgate) as a way to reconcile Lutheran and Roman Catholic views, since this verse is the theme of the Charismatic Episcopal Church. I also think it is interesting that he contrasts the Western thought dichotomy with a more Zen-like "yes AND no". This supports my belief that the post-modernism of which many Christians are so afraid may actually allow us to escape the nominalist constraints that western thought took on from the medieval scholastics. I am coming to believe that these constraints have made it impossible for Catholics and Protestants to understand each other, but the times, they are a-changin'. [Complete story.]
12:29:08 AM
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© Copyright 2002 Gregory Graham.
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