The secret sharer
I got several interesting responses to my questions on the secrecy in Mark. The post itself has sort of wandered...

Cuss and discuss
One apparent result of the Andrew Sullivan fracas was that I found myself on the blogroll of Ex-Gay Watch, whose...

Hover through fog and filthy air
In church yesterday we prayed for the victims of the fires, and came outside to a literal reminder: a great...

Notes on the Augsburg Confession
Allen Brill recommended that to learn more about Lutheranism I should read the Augsburg Confession, and kindly unearthed an online...

Mark 4
This chapter consists mostly of discussions about seeds. Metaphorical seeds, of course. Jesus preaches to a crowd a cryptic parable...

This just keeps getting more interesting
The pastor wasn't there when I went to the midweek service last night -- he was off at some synodal...

Sundays with Uncle Marty
I'm going to say something that will probably please some of you and disappoint some of you, but them's the...

Binding the wounds
Dash has a lovely post about a new Lutheran healing service....

A sign of the coming Apocalypse
At least, that's one way to take the fact that I wrote a post that got approving links from two...

Family style
My post on Andrew Sullivan a few days ago sparked a number of comments in several different directions, but one...

Unforgiven
Tom, as I had hoped, clarified Catholic thinking on the unforgivable sin I mentioned the other day in Mark 3....

Mark 3
We have another collection of little episodes, which largely advance previously introduced themes. A man with a withered hand shows...

What a long, strange trip it's been
My blog is one year old today! Counting from the genesis on Blogspot, that is. It's been an amazing year....

On the turning away
There's been a lot of discussion in the Catholic blogosphere lately over the fact that Andrew Sullivan seems to have...

Sleeeepy
I'm strung out on allergy medicine today and don't feel up to posting, but I haven't completely forgotten that I...

Low rise
I've been waiting for this trend to go away since about five minutes after it started, so I was pleased...

We all bow down
This week's church was the Culver-Palms Church of Christ. I went to this feeling blinder than usual -- I knew...

The triple omni
Richard Hall blogged a lecture he heard about the problem of evil, which apparently argued for a redefinition of omnipotence....

Erotica
There's a discussion over at Crooked Timber about whether affairs between professors and students should be forbidden. I think Daniel...

Son preference
Kieran Healy recently posted a story about studies suggesting Americans still have a preference for sons over daughters -- although...

The great foggy north
My trip to the SF area went well, though I didn't see as many people as I'd have liked. My...

OK, one more!
Actually, before I take off I want to make my long-intended contribution to Noah Millman's game: name the ten most...

I shall return
So I've come back ... to announce I won't be posting again for a few days. I'm going back up...

Downtime
Sorry I bailed out of the interesting discussion (which seems to be going on nicely without me). Work has been...