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Monday, October 30, 2006
The Black Death... and some links Ordinary Time I'm still in Colorado this morning, suffering from a bit of a cold. It's been a good time, though. I slept and watched Shaun of the Dead yesterday afternoon while my family visited the local aquarium, but managed to get myself off the couch for buffalo burgers. It was pretty sweet. I think we're visiting the US Mint this morning, and I think my sister wants to work in a Celestial Seasonings factory tour before dropping us at the airport around lunchtime. I've been reading John Kelly's The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time. I enjoy how HarperCollins thought it necessary to put that little explanation in the book's subtitle. It's pretty interesting. General mortality during Europe's plague outbreaks was about a quarter to a third, but in some places could reach 40 or 50%. That's incomprehensible to me. It made me quite a bit more grateful for the life that I live; I mean, I just have a cold, and that's that. When I go back home, my roommates will likely be alive, and none of them turned into zombies. And that's just the way I like it. Josh Williams discusses his journey "From Guilt to Grace." According to the American Family Association of Kentucky, you should vote entirely based upon superstition, rather than ethical reflection. Frank Lockwood: "Did Clinton Save America from God's Wrath?" I've told you guys why Baptists hate Clinton, right? 'Cause he got away with things that they don't even get to think about. It's envy, not righteous indignation. Tee hee! Oh, and here we go... Gladly Suffering Fools: "Homophilia." Speaking of which, Geoff at Sparkgrass is Not Happy about about early reports of the new guidelines for ministering to gay and lesbian Catholics. I've not read them yet, but if you want to get a jump on me, get to it. Technorati Tags: bill clinton, kentucky, colorado, buffalo, black death, gay catholics, halloween, baptists
posted by Kyle @ 8:52 AM 0 comments links to this post ...............................................................................................Sunday, October 29, 2006 A Theology of Vestments? Ordinary Time Let's talk about vestments: specifically, the pretty frocks that priests and acolytes wear during the divine liturgy as it is performed by traditional congregations. Just to say, I realize that from the way I talk and write, folks often assume that I'm censing the high altar at a cathedral every weekend. While I certainly think that would be fun and poignant, I don't. I am, when it's all said and done, part of a house church. And alas, we have no liturgical dress, and won't be getting any anytime soon. As for the pastoral issue, let me explain that it's not "pretty frocks" that I'm really talking about. Priests generally wear stoles when performing priestly functions. Visualize a simple stole here, rather than a medieval carnival. I think it is at the very least pastorally useful because it makes the statement that the chief consecrator is functioning as a priest. In those moments, the celebrant isn't just my friend (let's call him) Bill, but Bill the priest. Bill's personality isn't erased (now, who would want that?), but ritual action and vestments are visual indicators of the theological reality that this man through his functioning as a priest empowers and even enables the people to present themselves to God in the Sacrifice. As chief consecrator Bill the priest has a divine authority to ask God to do what he does in that moment for the Church that has nothing to do with whether he's a nice man or if people like him. Vestments, then, are a kind of pedagogical tool to remind us that we're Catholics and not Donatists. I have yet to meet anyone bothered by vestments whose church uses them. The people I hear protest (ahem) the loudest are in traditions and churches that do not, and would not use them. Why are those people so certain about what the practice means and what it does to people? People I expect to agree with me: Hearne, Noakes, and Cramer. So, did I call it? posted by Kyle @ 6:09 PM 15 comments links to this post ...............................................................................................Saturday, October 28, 2006 Did You Know? Ordinary Time Kentucky claims two American presidents: Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis. Shhh... posted by Kyle @ 12:24 PM 1 comments links to this post ...............................................................................................Friday, October 27, 2006 Update Ordinary Time I'm in Colorado. I'm being entertained by local campaign ads. I left my books behind, so I'm perusing my sister's library. I'm really enjoying Confessions of a Tax Collector: One Man's Tour of Duty in the IRS. I'm so serious. posted by Kyle @ 10:30 PM 7 comments links to this post ...............................................................................................Thursday, October 26, 2006 Single Issue Voting Ordinary Time The Democrats want to make it illegal to torture people that the secret military courts think might be terrorists. The Republicans like to say that makes them soft on terror. The Republicans want to make it illegal to abort the fetuses that might become terrorists. So who's soft on terror now? Technorati Tags: war on terror, voting
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Honestly... Ordinary Time I love many books, but my favorites have photographs of dogs dressed in funny clothes. posted by Kyle @ 9:21 PM 2 comments links to this post ...............................................................................................
Links! Ordinary Time Dr. Platypus smacks around the Baptists: There is not a Christian in the world who reads the whole Bible—or even the whole New Testament—with rigid, brutal consistency. There are parts we choose to emphasize and parts we choose to disregard or explain away. We don’t usually “greet one another with a holy kiss” (Rom 16:16; 1 Cor 16:20), much less worry about whether the meat on our table is trefa (Acts 15:20, 29). Only the most radical Christians (Francis of Assisi, the Waldensians, certain Anabaptist sects, etc.) advocate a life of “evangelical poverty” (Mk 10:17-27). And speaking in tongues (1 Cor 14:5, 39) seems as odd and suspicious to many Baptists as female church leaders (Rom 16:1, 7, 12).You might also skim through his recent entries to find some really good writings on early Christian worship - it's a great introduction to what our best and earliest sources tell us about the liturgies of those communities. Think monastics are nuts? Did you see The Monastery last weekend? Check out Antony: "What Do We Really Need to Be 'in Touch' With?" So lots of Republicans think Hilary Clinton is an inconsistent Christian, even a liberal one, which is another word for 'evil.' So how consistent is Hilary-bashing with Christian commitment: read about the repentance of a Republican at GetReligion. Antony offers some good discussion about hospitality as well, here and here. Suggest additions to the rosary at Selva Oscura. Douglas Knight suggests that it is not "you" or "I" who will be resurrected at the last day, but rather, "the Church." Check it out: It is not that I am being transformed as a merely individual entity. Rather I am being turned outwards so that I can no longer be thought of as someone cut off and isolated from others. I am being adapted to fit each other living person. We are all of us being fitted to one another. Resurrection means that I am brought into living relationship with, and so made alive to, every other person, and they to me. The (future) body of Christ will be made of every living person. We are being broken out of our present partial and sectarian community and brought into a much bigger one, indeed into the universal community. Our small local sectarian loaf is being re-dissolved and baked into a much bigger loaf – one that is made of all.Sweet. Nothing makes Enlightenment-grounded, 'freedom of conscience is the most important gospel freedom' liberals angrier than a phrase like "the pastoral action of excommunication." Check the comments here. Pax vobiscum Technorati Tags: Joan Houk, excommunication, eucharist, rosary, hospitality, hilary clinton
posted by Kyle @ 10:28 AM 4 comments links to this post ...............................................................................................Tuesday, October 24, 2006 Networking Site Ordinary Time Okay, so generally speaking, networking sites irritate me. They're usually long on cuteness and short on interesting content. On some occasions, I've gotten back in touch with folks because of them, which is really cool. Now that I've gotten to "e-know" some more people through them (hello, new readers!), I'm warming up to the idea. Mike Morrell has put me on to MyChurch.org. There has been some talk in the past few months about ghettoized "Christian" versions of MySpace, but I don't think this is part of that (which would be crap). Here's why I find this site interesting: it lets me view the communal internet presence of local churches. If I want to know about a church, I can visit them (if I'm really curious) or (more likely) I can check out their advertising or websites. If they don't get into advertising, my hat's off to them. Websites are still a certain kind of PR, and that's fine. This site could let folks know what kind of people (sorta) are part of particular churches. You should sign up so I can learn about your church by learning a little about who you people are. Make sense? Here's my profile. Frankly, I'm trying to find an excuse to say "The Church meets Web 2.0." There, I did it. I feel silly now. I wonder what Alan will think? Will he take us to Web 2.0? (See what I did, there?) Okay, back to the books... Technorati Tags: networking, church 2.0
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Books Again Ordinary Time One of the odd things about working at the bookstore is that really simple things can become difficult. One takes for granted the meaning of certain phrases that realy need to be expounded upon with the aid of charts and diagrams. Customer: Do you have any copies of Book X? Me [checking computer system]: No, I'm afraid we don't. Customer: Why not? Me [continuing to check computer]: My information describes that title as out of print. Customer: So can you order it? Me: No sir, I'm afraid I can't. Customer: Well, you should carry more books by Author X. Me: Of course, sir. We try our best. However, since Author X is local and uses small publishers with a small print run, his/her books tend to go out of print fairly quickly. The only thing I can get copies of is the newest book, Book Y. Customer: Barnes and Noble could get it for me. Me: No sir, they couldn't. I know that for a fact. I'm happy to recommend some local used book sellers, or some websites if you wish, but I'm afraid I can't help you any further than that. Customer: No, I'll just go to Barnes and Noble. Me [smiling cheerily]: Very good. Good day, sir. Here's the thing. I am happy to spend 5-10 minutes with anybody who comes to the Help Desk, trying to hook them up with the book they're looking for - even when it doesn't exist. What I never do is stand and listen to someone pout that they can't get their way. Another (apparently) painful experience of cognitive dissonance sets in when I have to explain to someone that the book they're so certain they need does not in fact exist. I always try to break the news gently. Interestingly enough, the older someone is (and presumably the more shaky their memory) the more certain a customer tends to be that they have the book's author and title exactly right. Customer: Do you have the new book by Author A? Me [checking computer]: Let me see. Are you sure it's not Author B (who shares a surname with Author A)? Customer: No. Me: I'm sorry, I can't find that name. Would you please spell the last name for me? Customer: Well, it's not hard. [spells] Me [thinking about how my education really probably does make me better than this person, then feeling slightly badly about it, then checking Google and Wikipedia to see what I can find out about "Author" A]: I'm sorry, but the only records I'm finding for Person A is either a cartoonist who died in 1951 or a recently retired Canadian MP. Customer: Well, that's not him. Me: Clearly. Do you know the title of the book? Customer: [names an approximation of the title of the new and popular book by Author B, who shares a surname with Author A.] Me: Yes, that's by Author B. Customer: No, I'm sure that's not it. Me: I'm sorry, but I don't believe the author you're looking for exists. Customer: That's okay, I'll just go to Barnes and Noble. Yah, we'll see how long they put up with either one of you. You know, I'm pretty sure of myself. I'm a graduate student, and I've worked in a bookstore for many months, and as a library tech for a year. I was trained to catalogue this stuff. It's not a Master of Library Science, but it's not nothing. If I say a book does or does not exist, I'm right. If I tell you the best way to aquire a certain title, I'm right about that, too. Just that much - it's not exactly hard. I wonder if there's a T-shirt I can wear to get this idea across...? It gets even more sensitive when I must interfere with the logic of "I think Book C should exist, therefore someone did write it and a publisher did print it, and all bookstores must therefore have it. Okay, that's all. Technorati Tags: bookstores, books
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Irritable. Ordinary Time Pursiful called it. "Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary Trustees: '1 Corinthians 14.39 Not Inerrant.'"HA! They'll fire you if you say the Bible's not inerrant, and they'll fire you if you fall to forbid ecstatic 'prayer languages.' Weak. Which brings us back to what the real issue is in Baptist life: you must agree to the inerrancy of Baptist teachings about the Bible's teachings. The real difference between Nashville and Rome is that the Roman magisterium doesn't vote on truth. [Cartman voice] "Nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah ha ha ha ha ha ha" Meanwhile, if you want to engage with some edifying, Aquilina's audio introduction to Ignatius of Antioch has been posted. Cute. So much for civil liberties. RIP, Habeas Corpus. Should you be accused of any crime (or suspected!) related to "terror," you can be put in prison. Man, I hope that liberal Supreme Court reminds the executive branch that it's supposed to protect and defend the US Constitution sometime soon. Oh, and put that lighter down. The first amendment doesn't apply if a flag is involved. Now go watch the video. "Other rights accorded to the people? Well, if you can name them during your waterboarding, you can have them!" Technorati Tags: patristics, tongues, baptists
posted by Kyle @ 7:50 AM 2 comments links to this post ...............................................................................................Monday, October 23, 2006 Books Ordinary Time Oxford University Press' top five religion/theology titles are all written by Bart Ehrman. Brother Bart, what did you do to get so sexy and marketable? I would rather be punched in the face (where's Noakes?) than finish Spencer Burke's A Heretic's Guide to Eternity. But now that I've said it, I feel obligated to do just that, and then tell you why. I'm glancing through the Fall Books issue of The Christian Century to see if I should take a look at anything, if you're wondering. I'm working at LTS today. Hey, go check out the Open Forum from the City Church of San Francisco. They've offered recent podcasts of talks from Lauren Winner and N.T. Wright about their recent books. I listened to both of them last week, and think both the discussions and the books themselves are very worthwhile. Wright is discussing his Simply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense and Winner her Real Sex: The Naked Truth About Chastity. Go there. Download. Listen. Smile. You'll thank me. Technorati Tags: theology books, bart ehrman, NT Wright, Lauren+Winner
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Anecdotes Ordinary Time +James of Jerusalem Ooh, it's been too long since I've written. I've worked a lot this week. This was Homecoming Weekend at Georgetown College, so I spent some time up there. I spent some time with Danny and (surprise) assorted PHAs, talking about the usual stuff: theology, calling, and just living with people. Zac tried to impress me with his Tony Campolo books, while Messer and Patterson have a fake fireplace. I'm jealous. If anybody needs me, I'll be at Lowe's (you know, like usual). Glover and McNutt did a great job with songfest, and Patrick was sauntering about rather prominently in the PHA skit. As he does. Did everybody see the videocast Patrick and I did at Canterbury? You should - click here. I'll be spending the weekend before All Souls/Saints with my mother and uncle, visiting my sister in Colorado. I'll let you know how that goes. She's studying for a Master of Taxation degree at Denver. Yes, that exists. Scary, huh? Speaking of which, Darrell Pursiful has reminded us that Hallowe'en is the Christian alternative to the pagan Harvest Festival. Can anybody recommend a good zombie film? If anyone wants to be part of a great church in Lexington, let me know. I'll let you know the score (heh heh). I attended the liturgy at Saint Patrick's yesterday; they were baptizing a baby and initiating two adults into the catechumenate. Liturgies of Christian initiation are amazing; we need to be reminded like that, that new life in Jesus really is possible, and that we really can be healed and freed from all the death in our lives by virtue of who he is and what he's done. Josh and Indie Jesse (no longer emo, he's moved on) joined us for the Liturgy with Vine and Branches; we discussed the passage in Mark in which Jesus explains that Kingdom authority isn't like that of the world - it's about love, service, and laying down one's life for the good of others. May God make us people like that. Alan put us onto the new TLC series, the Monastery. Jesse and I watched it last night: from the look of it, it's going to be both entertaining and enlightening, teaching a lot of people some good things about a tradition they know very little about. Check it out next Sunday at 10 (or 1am). Did anyone else see it? In other news, Jesse showed up to school last week in a shirt, tie, and white coat. One of his profs told him he looked "just like a miniature doctor." Ouch. Little Doc, where's our next blog post? Technorati Tags: jesus, christianity, theology, vine and branches, emerging church, discipleship, monastery, georgetown college
posted by Kyle @ 9:28 AM 10 comments links to this post ...............................................................................................Tuesday, October 17, 2006 Deconstructing Christian Clichés If you will indulge me, I'm re-introducing a piece I wrote last Advent. Let me know what you think of the piece, and if you want to revisit the original discussion, click here. If you don't know me, let me introduce myself.  Ornery (adj.) : having an irritable disposition : CANTANKEROUS- or·neri·ness noun see also Potter, Kyle: "We simply must kill any gods who are incapable of raising the dead." Let's have a chat. I have been given the grace for the last eight years of my life to be apprenticed to Jesus in the fellowship of his Church. I love the way God sees us, and what he has made us. I am always learning to love us as we are, "warts and all." Note that I will not talk about Christ's Church as if it were somehow an institution or group of people who live separately either from me or from him. I have been baptized into him, together with everybody else who's been dipped or sprinkled or splashed in the name of the Trinitarian God. We're all bloody well stuck with each other. So understand this, if nothing else: any criticism I'm offering, I do so in the context of committment. I want to make a suggestion about Christian clichés, some of the unfortunate phrases we use when trying to offer spiritual counsel to one another. Many of our Christian communities fail to provide a safe place to be real and vulnerable because of the unhelpful language that fills the air. When folks are threatened by the doubts and struggles of others, they will sometimes say things like "Just give it over to the Lord"For many of you who have been raised in faith communities, it can be hard to realize how vacuous, how literally empty of meaning that these phrases are. Eugene Peterson suggests stronger language still in a discussion about "fear-of-the-Lord": ... There is ... something about the sacred that makes us uneasy. We don't like being in the dark, not knowing what to do. And so we attempt to domesticate the mystery, explain it, probe it, name and use it. "Blasphemy" is the term we use for these verbal transgressions of the sacred, these violations of the holy: taking God's name in vain, dishonoring sacred time and place, reducing God to gossip and chatter. Uncomfortable with the mystery, we try to banish it with clichés.It may not be immediately obvious, but when people offer these phases, these stock answers, it sends a clear and demoralizing message: "I don't take your struggles seriously, and I'm not prepared to muster the theological depth to share them with you." This might be a harsh assessment, but this is a great problem, and worthy of such consideration. If you use these Christian platitudes, these unholy clichés in your care for your brothers and sisters, I urge you to carefully consider dropping them. If you find your friends using them on you, forgive them, then challenge them. Muster some courage and tell them you find those words to be theologically empty and pastorally cold. It's the only way we're going to grow and learn to struggle together. Let's respect each other enough to never be satisfied with platitudes. Instead, let's struggle together, ask God the hard questions, and learn the peace that comes with honesty. Truly, for Christ's sake and for the care of his Church, let's be honest. For my part, I have offered my thoughts on four common Christian platitudes, with suggestions as to how we might replace them with more honest and clear attempts to tell the story of who we are in Christ Jesus. Captain Sacrament's Antitheses
And don't forget to read the conclusion of the series, "And the Glory of the Lord Shall Be Revealed," in which I bring the discussion back to the Advent context - making space for our coming King. Technorati Tags: Christian cliches, blasphemy, evangelicalism, church
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Hooray for Visitors! Ordinary Time Frank Lockwood, the religion reporter for the Herald Leader, has kindly added me to his blogroll. Welcome, visitors! I always enjoy Lockwood's work, and find him quite knowledgable and fair, especially with the local Anglican controversies in the last couple of years. If you like that kind of thing, do continue to check out GetReligion as well. For those of you visiting me for the first time, let me introduce myself. Technorati Tags: religion news, journalism
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Around the House Ordinary Time Every morning I rise at 6:30 to make coffee. I eat breakfast with Jesse, and we talk about what he'll be doing to that poor cadaver today, and about my reading. He disappears into the dark, rainy morning. Chris gets up a little later, and I try to ask clever questions about math. It doesn't work. He disappears into the dark, rainy morning also. I go to my desk with my second cup of coffee to skim blogs and taunt Noakes over IM. I usually say prayers or pick up the first book of the day, and chat with Alan around midmorning. I usually do e-mail in the morning, too. I just wrote an editorial (move to the edge of your seat now), and in a moment I'll say morning prayer, shower, and write some e-mails. The other Kyle is coming over for lunch. We'll do work this afternoon, and catch up with Emo Jesse and Mike after a simple dinner. And more studies. Graduate life rocks. I had lunch with Katie yesterday. She's great. Sadly (for her new and old Kentucky friends) she's back in Dallas now. Technorati Tags: rainy days, scholarship
posted by Kyle @ 10:20 AM 4 comments links to this post ...............................................................................................Monday, October 16, 2006 Weekend Ordinary Time Alan's continuing to talk about how our church does things: "live teaching." Aly Hawkins reflects on protest songs. If he writes this book, Mark Van Steenwyk will be one of my new heroes. Steven Harris interviews the Internet Monk. I'm thinking about taking measures to increase my audience with this thing. Any suggestions for a "Best of Captain Sacrament" collection? Shameless self-aggrandizement, I know. I had a fun weekend; my housemates and I went out for Darron's birthday on Friday, and Jesse and I made dinner for Josh to recognize his 21st. We made one of my favorite stand-bys, "Fantasy Chicken." It's a fried chicken dish with a cream-based lemon gravy that a friend taught me in Dallas. The Divine Liturgy was fun last night; I was quite disconcerted to learn that my co-religionists are still caught up on this whole "justification by faith" thing. We'll deal. I love you guys! Zac Bailes hung out with us this weekend and joined us for worship; other illustrious guest stars included Katie (Eating Popcorn) and Jesse Darland. Katie's in to visit a friend, so it's been great to meet her! I would never have guessed a couple of years ago that I'd have "internet friends." Hm. I prefer to call y'all "pen pals" of a sort. That just sounds... different. It's been good to finish up those nasty essays and see people again, ha! posted by Kyle @ 9:22 AM 7 comments links to this post ...............................................................................................Sunday, October 15, 2006 Four Years Ago Ordinary Time Teresa of Avila Disclaimer. This entry is unpleasant, but I was kind of feeling like writing it anyway. If we were sitting down for coffee and a beer today, you and I and a couple of other good friends, this is what I'd talk about today. I remember most vividly the smell of the rain and the grass. I love autumn, but I did not love combing it out of my beard. I don't remember when my face was pressed into the ground, but I do remember the itching of the sod, and the caked blood, and the washing of the rain. I remember the spinning car, and how the wheel crushed my chest and kept me suspended from the ground. It was a funny thing, bleeding upside down. I did not like it. I didn't expect to die alone that evening. Now I never fail to anticipate it. I remember tubes and hoses. Tubes in, tubes out. I remember the creation of orifices where there were no orifices before. I remember how they made me try to answer yes and no questions by nodding my head, before they discovered that my neck was broken. My lungs had collapsed, pierced by my ribs. The skin on the left side of my torso turned purple for about ten days; I never saw it myself. It was three weeks before I would sleep again. Passing out for a couple of hours every night is something different from that entirely. I was only in the hospital for maybe a dozen days; as soon as I could be moved from the bed to a chair and back, I was to be sent home. After the first night, I didn't get back in bed for about two weeks. I couldn't lie down and breathe at the same time. I remember more individual hours than you might suppose. Indeed, I counted them. I broke C1, L2, and L3. I also broke three ribs and a clavicle. I don't know what you call whatever happened to my sternum. Cracked? Broken? Eating sucked. Drinking sucked. Sleeping sucked. I broke several teeth (the dentist made them pretty again!). I stayed in the wheelchair for perhaps three weeks, and the walker for another two. I had physical therapy until April, 2 or 3 times per week. I never missed a session. I wore the halo until December 17 - you can google that on your own. I have funny stories, you should remind me to tell them. Well, I mean they're kind of funny. Okay, I'm done for now. posted by Kyle @ 9:38 PM 6 comments links to this post ...............................................................................................
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