tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5388311668863092477.comments2013-09-09T22:18:29.494-04:00Living the GospelUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5388311668863092477.post-60285120980773075552009-12-19T10:34:20.170-05:002009-12-19T10:34:20.170-05:00Brilliant!Brilliant!The Very Rev. Daniel B. Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05205607142223107826noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5388311668863092477.post-85191356136543588782009-12-19T05:28:11.924-05:002009-12-19T05:28:11.924-05:00Yes, thank God for Joseph!Yes, thank God for Joseph!Göran Koch-Swahnehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00925549945659350649noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5388311668863092477.post-73839208667335818982009-12-17T21:30:04.494-05:002009-12-17T21:30:04.494-05:00Thank God for Joseph.Thank God for Joseph.Bill Carrollhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14743851784631753415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5388311668863092477.post-46372192190392842502009-12-17T21:05:56.629-05:002009-12-17T21:05:56.629-05:00I would laugh if I did not want to cry.
FWIW
jimB...I would laugh if I did not want to cry.<br /><br />FWIW<br />jimBJimBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17312606954135884910noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5388311668863092477.post-32007072697955961952009-12-17T20:17:40.247-05:002009-12-17T20:17:40.247-05:00Bill, this is terrific. I hope it gets a very wide...Bill, this is terrific. I hope it gets a very wide hearing -- and once heard, integrated into the life of the Communion.Thomas B. Woodwardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08742944114518979523noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5388311668863092477.post-67608388882444368172009-12-17T13:11:13.849-05:002009-12-17T13:11:13.849-05:00The original inspiration of course is from Ed Baco...The original inspiration of course is from Ed Bacon. I just tweaked it in light of +Rowan's pronouncement.Bill Carrollhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14743851784631753415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5388311668863092477.post-89039696658371731232009-12-17T13:06:50.669-05:002009-12-17T13:06:50.669-05:00Sheer genius, Bill! I bow in awe.Sheer genius, Bill! I bow in awe.Lisa Foxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00881671380217888810noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5388311668863092477.post-23864392184417026982009-12-07T05:40:14.817-05:002009-12-07T05:40:14.817-05:00;=);=)Göran Koch-Swahnehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00925549945659350649noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5388311668863092477.post-74245784285510850082009-10-16T01:20:58.832-04:002009-10-16T01:20:58.832-04:00I enjoy your blog, Bill, but have to say that your...I enjoy your blog, Bill, but have to say that your first paragraph in this posting seems a paragon of strangled syntax. John Ralston Saul talked at some length in his book, Voltaire's Bastards, about how the modern world has created specialies that in their turn create a language that is exclusive to themselves as a way of validating the speciality and keeping the hoi poloi at bay. That is how your first paragraph reads to me. Are you a teacher reaching out with thoughts that will cause me to think, or are you a pendant sonorously droning on in the third person? I'll keep reading...Billhttp://cranberryharvest.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5388311668863092477.post-55934431439572079052009-08-17T17:42:54.549-04:002009-08-17T17:42:54.549-04:00Thanks, Christopher. I had Life Together in the b...Thanks, Christopher. I had Life Together in the back of my mind. We are going to read it with the new community that is emerging around sustainable agriculture work here in Athens.Bill Carrollhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14743851784631753415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5388311668863092477.post-60873079355049113522009-08-17T11:19:05.940-04:002009-08-17T11:19:05.940-04:00This reminds me very much of Bonhoeffer's own ...This reminds me very much of Bonhoeffer's own instruction in the underground seminary.Closedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04752595488795781895noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5388311668863092477.post-71951336355853213052009-07-12T20:30:13.585-04:002009-07-12T20:30:13.585-04:00Of course. But I was trying to answer Bp Harris&#...Of course. But I was trying to answer Bp Harris' question. And much of the reason lies in the filters by which Christ and the Sacraments are presently interpreted. To be in Christ is conflated with heterosexuality. Phillip Turner's First Things article a few years back is a classic example of this assumption. The Mind of Christ, fully humanity is assumed to be heterosexual without question of fruits, virtues, etc. The problem is the embodied reality seems to suggest otherwise, and that makes a lot of the filters by which the Church is currently operating not theological, but ideological.Christopherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10400109177404296836noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5388311668863092477.post-20187024150020240152009-07-12T16:00:00.663-04:002009-07-12T16:00:00.663-04:00Christ is normative humanity. All that is truly h...Christ is normative humanity. All that is truly human is found in him, without losing its particularity but truly one.Bill Carrollhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14743851784631753415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5388311668863092477.post-68138151230551773642009-07-12T14:33:25.139-04:002009-07-12T14:33:25.139-04:00Because Baptism in our tradition is still profound...Because Baptism in our tradition is still profoundly intertwined with heteronormativity rather than Christonormativity. I was not baptized in the name of the mother, father, and 2.5 kids, but in the Name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. But often, the two are conflated on many levels that heterosexuals don't even notice, but are quite visceral and embodied and present for sexual minorities. Heteronormativity is a lens by which our Sacraments are profoundly distorted, and do so, distorts our sense of ethics. Heterosexuality rather than Christ becomes that to which sexual minorities are meant to be converted to.Christopherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10400109177404296836noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5388311668863092477.post-20634493488128802042009-07-04T12:40:09.677-04:002009-07-04T12:40:09.677-04:00The lectionary readings pointed me towards showing...The lectionary readings pointed me towards showing gratitude for the blessings of civil freedom by mindfulness of and charity towards the poor and marginalized among us. I agree that social justice is independence from "the powers" that corrupt and destroy creatures of God.Марко Фризияhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08329850161076633932noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5388311668863092477.post-5242957742649209832009-07-04T12:31:31.986-04:002009-07-04T12:31:31.986-04:00the degree of our dependence on God and the degree...<em>the degree of our dependence on God and the degree to which we ourselves are free are related in direct proportion (rather than inverse proportion)</em><br /><br />It is Tanner's work that really helped me to understand this on an intellectual level with the same degree I understood this on the prayer level from St Augustine. The more we rest in God, the more we are free, the more we are ourselves as God intends.Christopherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10400109177404296836noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5388311668863092477.post-65957726357098019712009-06-08T16:30:31.108-04:002009-06-08T16:30:31.108-04:00I'm reading Bonaventure, and I have to say I f...I'm reading Bonaventure, and I have to say I find his thought on the Trinity as well as his sense of the natural world compelling.Christopherhttp://thanksgivinginallthings.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5388311668863092477.post-16833663426475021812009-05-14T23:35:00.000-04:002009-05-14T23:35:00.000-04:00I think we do exactly the kind of work you are doi...I think we do exactly the kind of work you are doing. The beast we are fighting must be fought on many different fronts. And we can only make the very first steps. I think that organizing people is key to an effort that is more than a drop in the bucket. My own shift toward parish ministry had to do with this conviction. We need communities grounded in worship and a story other than that of the dominant consumerist narrative. Do people really want this? I don't know. I think some probably do. If the church is to survive, to say nothing of the human race, we must find some people who do.Bill Carrollhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14743851784631753415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5388311668863092477.post-73305327348471772342009-05-14T21:24:00.000-04:002009-05-14T21:24:00.000-04:00I am very excited about this new blog both because...I am very excited about this new blog both because of the gifts of the author and its subject matter. My primary interest is how we begin to preach penance and live into the Gospel while maintaining love for the world and avoiding self righteousness. I agree with Fr. Bill, that acknowledging sinfulness is very important. What troubles me is a reluctance to name these sins (especially corporate) and then little effort to follow with a substantive and prolonged discussion on what penance would mean, especially in a church context. Two brief examples; energy and food. We need to be able to say coal is a poison from start to finish. We daily receive at least 50 percent of our household energy from coal. By far, most of our food comes from exploitative land and labor practices. How do we think about and do penance for examples like these? How do we move beyond consumer and often fantasy based approaches (solar, hybrid, organic) to thinking about the necessary life changes addressing these sins (consuming much, much less, using our own energy more, and being more involved in food production). I am a farmer and part time carpenter, so I am more at home in practical things than theology. Yet, my question for the theologians out there is not about energy and food per se, but how we make sin and penance specific. Yes, I agree Fr. Bill, penance desperately needs to be about turning towards something, but how do we start that conversation.Paul Clevernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5388311668863092477.post-85781637589561950692009-05-06T19:18:00.000-04:002009-05-06T19:18:00.000-04:00How so, Josh? I thought I was inviting us all to ...How so, Josh? I thought I was inviting us all to pursue holiness, in some of the same ways the Baptismal Covenant does, but I thought I was also pretty clear that we are lost and need to be found by Christ and empowered and transfigured by the Spirit.<br /><br />The more we strive to observe the Gospel, the more we realize how short we fall. But it is here that we discover the mercy of God for us frail and poor sinners.Bill Carrollhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14743851784631753415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5388311668863092477.post-30447571183436395742009-05-06T19:09:00.000-04:002009-05-06T19:09:00.000-04:00Good luck with your blog, Bill. But it seems you'r...Good luck with your blog, Bill. But it seems you're almost proclaiming your holiness here, and you really might want to tone that down, it can't be what you intend.Josh Indianahttp://dailyoffice.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com