tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915617830446943975.post5206361852221133641..comments2024-03-29T06:58:28.383+13:00Comments on Anglican Down Under: The church of God is people but are the people being separatist, even supremacist?Peter Carrellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09535218286799156659noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915617830446943975.post-47090041126685324492021-03-06T00:19:07.151+13:002021-03-06T00:19:07.151+13:00What a depressing book by Kaa - he shows no unders...What a depressing book by Kaa - he shows no understanding that Christianity is a universal faith and he even boasts of praying to Maori gods.<br />How is this heresy tolerated?<br />Why have Maori largely abandoned Christianity in New Zealand? (I cannot speak for the many Australian Maori.)<br /><br />HowardAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915617830446943975.post-50144172250034239872021-02-07T17:07:34.242+13:002021-02-07T17:07:34.242+13:00From the wisdom of today's 3-minute retreat:
...From the wisdom of today's 3-minute retreat:<br /><br />"Salvation is not reserved for the clever. God made the rules simple enough that all people might have the opportunity to be saved. Jesus makes the Ten Commandments even more concise. In response to a test posed by the intellectual elite, Jesus summarizes all of the law as love of God and love of neighbor. Living a moral life is about living in a loving way. Jesus not only spoke about love, he lived it, embracing sinners and giving his life for our salvation."<br /><br />Deo gratias!Father Ronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17062632692873621258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915617830446943975.post-9847634987913637692021-02-07T08:17:20.029+13:002021-02-07T08:17:20.029+13:00A Pietist in Lambeth? According to Wikipedia, John...A Pietist in Lambeth? According to Wikipedia, John Potter, ABC 1737-1747, not only priested John Wesley, but belonged to Nicholas von Zinzendorf's honorary Order of the Mustard Seed. One stereotype or the other needs some nuance.<br /><br />BWUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11931946224142718747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915617830446943975.post-75223458031998067652021-02-03T19:00:14.135+13:002021-02-03T19:00:14.135+13:00Let those who speak of the "southern United S...Let those who speak of the "southern United States" imagine driving about 1800 miles from Baltimore, Maryland to Laredo, Texas. Along any of a few more or less direct routes, one passes through towns that nobody would place in the same region. <br /><br />And why be so direct when there are byways through places as fascinating-- and distinct-- as Richmond, Virginia or Asheboro, North Carolina or Charleston, South Carolina or Miami, Florida or Birmingham, Alabama or New Orleans, Louisiana? In Richmond, legislators in Jefferson's capitol still debate before a mace bestowed by the Crown in the C17, while New Orleans follows the Code Napoleon (a French recension of Justinian's grand codification of Roman law), and irrigation from precious water of the Rio Grande is ruled by an Arab law that the Abassid caliphs left behind in Spain. <br /><br />Any reader who has tried to find the common ground under Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, Tennessee Williams, Anne Rice, etc may suspect that they are similar only as they are all different from another stream of literature that flows to the mouths of the Charles and the Hudson. In the same way that the Orient exists only in a mind looking eastward from European capitals, the South mainly exists in one looking down-- geographically, culturally, ethically -- from the Northeast.<br /><br />I mention this to + Peter's readers down under only to alert them. Among Americans, certitude about moral questions in our politics rises directly with ignorance of our history and geography. One can nibble hors d'oeuvres with whole rooms full of charming people who cannot imagine that they would ever shoot back at an invading army. Or who think that only a perverse resistance to racial justice could inspire an attachment to cultures older than the New World. They are wise and good and sure of more than was ever true.<br /><br />BW<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com