A great Mystery
No, I'm not talking about God this time ... I'm talking about a video game. When I had my hard...

Belief, myth, and jack#$%
David is still not happy with the answers he got to his problems with "the faith thing," and I have...

Hating your parents
Over at Tom's place a big discussion broke out about hatred, and Rob asked: For Jesus advocating "hate", check out...

More on the faith thing
Kynn weighs in....

The gift of faith
Tom cogently responds, here and here, to David's objections to "the faith thing" in the comments to this post. I...

Sex and status
There was a passionate exchange recently between Ampersand and Eve Tushnet about gender roles. Roughly speaking, she's for them, he's...

Love the sinner, hate the sin
Kynn recently objected to that concept, and Tom responded with a series of posts (permalinks are fubar again, but it...

Mark 2
We begin with another healing story. In his post about Mark 1, Kynn wrote that he doubts Jesus actually faith-healed...

Mmm, back scratching
I've now reciprocated some blogroll links: Hernan Gonzalez at fotos del apocalipsis, the aforementioned fantastic planet, and Bolo Boffin, which...

A fourth Marcan!
We got another blogger joining the Gospel of Mark study: Mr. J. Puma at fantastic planet. He's a Gnostic, of...

Going native
Joel was interviewed by Jenny of 111:2, and made a point about California's beauty: I prefer that people who come...

Churchgoing
I realized last night, after I'd gotten the computer pulled together again, that I never got around to blogging about...

What have I started?
After seeing my post on that teen-girl Biblezine, and with a nudge from T.S. O'Rama, the Curt Jester came up...

Back!
My computer's back, and it's working! But they had to completely reinstall Windows and reformat the hard drive, so there's...

Computer update
So the techie came over yesterday after work, and couldn't figure out what the heck was going on either. He...

Worse than a broken computer
Get well soon, Dash!...

The spirit is willing, but the flesh has issues
Well, the upgrade is not going smoothly. I took it home yesterday, turned it on, everything worked great, except ......

The sublime and the ridiculous
The Bible I'm reading for the Mark blogging is the HarperCollins Study Bible, which I picked up on Telford's recommendation...

Know thyself
I mentioned in the last post the book that Telford and I blogged part of this summer, which includes Marcus...

Mark 1
Mark is one of the three Synoptic Gospels, along with Matthew and Luke, and some scholars believe the latter two...

Camassia enters the twenty-first century!
People may have been confused by the extremely off-topic exchange I had in the comments with David (not David Heddle,...

Speaking of book-blogging...
I'm really glad that Jennifer is blogging Karl Barth, because he's one of those people I've never read, but always...

On your Mark...
Rob was not happy that I bailed on the women's ordination argument, because he likes hearing me think aloud. I...

Anything for the Mother Church
Tom is bravely volunteering to sacrifice himself to the Presbyterian horde. I am sure we will all be praying for...

Drawing the lines
It has come to my attention, through the comments below, that I misrepresented David Heddle. Sorry! I think a lot...

Male and female he created them
So last night I posted two views on women's ordination, but I didn't say what I thought about it all....

The madhouse
I dreamed this morning I was working in an insane asylum. Somehow I fell into conversation with one of the...

Headship, bodyship, and speaking in church
Telford has the first draft of his defense of women's ordination up, and is inviting feedback. And if you like...

When cults end
I was Googling last night for a church in my neighborhood when I stumbled across the website for the Worldwide...

Carving new pigeonholes
My blogroll was getting too long and I have not been visiting everyone regularly, so I trimmed it down. Sorry...

Abusing linguistics for fun and profit
Cinderella Bloggerfeller says today the Edward Said rejects the theory of Indo-European linguistic unity on the grounds that it's "Orientalist."...

Preaching and teaching
In the comments to yesterday's post, Tom made an interesting point: One difference between Catholics and some Protestants might be...

Dig that metaphor
It sounds like St. Mark's isn't the only Catholic church dealing with unlovely noises: This new priest is an amazing...

Day of unrest
This is not a relaxing weekend for me. As I write this, I am putting off going back to the...

In the closet
Tomorrow I hope to file a report on the Church of St. Mark. It should be interesting to visit a...

Blogwatchin', across the universe
Recommended reading: The Real Live Preacher on being seduced by the Word. Mark Kleiman has a proposal to curb teenage...

More and still more on the Ten Commandments
A good article in Christianity Today warns against legalism (via Amy Welborn), while Allen Brill discusses Bible interpretation in a...

Blogroll changes
Goodbye, Ted Barlow (sort of -- he's on Crooked Timber now). Hello, Fr. Jim Tucker, who has shown the good...

My dumb church questions for this week
So I went to Mass Times to investigate the Catholic churches in my neighborhood, and two questions immediately came up:...

The joy we share as we tarry there
So as promised, here's my report on the Lutheran church I visited, which goes by the slightly kinky name of...

Labor day
I've been busy today with long-deferred cleaning and organizing, and I'm too beat to post substantively right now. One thing...