Category: A Sampler of Posts
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Tagged: Ephesians 5. (part 1 – general considerations)
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7 comments on Tagged: Ephesians 5. (part 1 – general considerations)Darwin tagged me yesterday morning, along with several other married women bloggers, in a post asking opinions about Ephesians 5. For context, read his whole post — but the main question is, what are we to think of "Wives, be submissive to your husbands?" Here are a few points, in no particular order. No, I don't…
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“Life” language: political vs. pastoral, political vs. Christian.
Editing note added years after the original post. I don’t think this post, as originally written, makes this bit of Catholic teaching clear enough: Catholics are permitted to vote for pro-choice candidates for reasons that they judge to be proportionate. If there is a sin in voting for a candidate who supports any inherent evil,…
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More on the body-person dissociation.
I wrote a couple of days ago about the idea, common among Christians but incompatible with traditional Christian theology, that the body after death is "just an empty shell" and that the "real person" is completely absent from the body. (Christian orthodoxy, on the other hand, looks forward to "the resurrection of the body" and…
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Separation.
Katie Allison Granju struggles with the imagery of her son's cremation. I don’t remember much of that period immediately after Henry died, but I do remember the agony I felt every time I thought about what was going to happen to Henry during the autopsy and then later, at the crematorium. Knowing that Henry’s body…
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Hearts of flesh.
I wrote this some time ago and didn't polish it, and haven't time to do so today, but I thought I'd put it up for its timeliness, as today is the Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. * * * I will take your heart of stone and put a new heart of flesh…
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Pickiness.
One problem with being “on a diet” in America: It tends to make you an aggravated, and possibly aggravating, dinner guest. This is where the habit of gluttony* really shows its true colors, and in so many different ways. Our cultural expectation of overeating as part of a celebration — and I don’t mean ordinary,…
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The remains of impulse.
I was obese [editing note: I’d say “fat” today] for my entire life, up till age 33. That year, for no apparent reason, I had an epiphany: a new desire. The twin desires for a better [thinner] body and better health, I’d always had those. As long as I remember I alternated between wanting thinness badly enough to work…
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The other daily specials.
The last fast-food restaurant I took the kids to was Sonic, an eat-in-your-car drive-in kind of place. We were in Bloomington, I didn't want to get the sleeping baby out of the car, and I thought the novelty of the roller-skating car hops would be entertaining. (I was right about that one, by the way.)…
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Bland and cautious: Two posts that say something I meant to say.
First, from Darwin, a few weeks ago. [T]here are a good many people who know me in real life who read the blog. More than that, after writing a blog for four-and-a-half years, you get to think of a number of your long-time readers and commenters are friends. The blog becomes like a corner coffee…
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The corpus and the cross.
Rich Leonardi has a cryptic post up about a hypothetical bumper sticker he'd like to see in the Cincinnati Archdiocese: "We Preach Christ Crucified." I read through the comments while waiting for him to update and explain himself, and came upon this comment: Evangelical friends of mine maintain that their cross, devoid of a corpus,…
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Dialogue.
Tito Edwards at The American Catholic has a post on ecumenism that is followed by an interesting combox discussion. Writing about institutional-level dialogue and ecumenism, Tito states: Ecumenism, whatever that means anymore, is a dead cat. It’s going nowhere because it has no idea what it is. Hence the forty years of fruitless labor…
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