October 2024
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Heresies – Protestants and Moderns
Protestants Here in the 21st century we do not generally refer to Protestants as heretics. We are more likely to refer to them as our Protestant brothers and sisters. But it is included as a heresy by all three of our primary sources. So why is that? Our friend Hilaire Belloc thinks it deserves to Continue reading
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Heresies — Three of the Big Five
Our three authors take different approaches to the topic of heretics, but they generally agree on a top five. Bishop Schneider tries to be comprehensive, so he starts with pre-Christian religions that might not be technically Christian heretics but are useful to understand as we Christians interact with a post-Christian culture. Bishop Schneider also likes Continue reading
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Servant Leadership
The readings today remind us what Jesus did for us, and they suggest that he should be the model for our lives. We first get from the prophet Isaiah a description of the suffering servant, which is what Jesus will be many centuries later. It says: If he gives his life as an offering for Continue reading
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Introduction to Heresies
What is a heresy? We’re going to pull from a few sources in order to try to answer these questions from different perspectives. The three primary sources were going to use are: So we have a contemporary author who is looking at things from our current point in history. And we have an English public Continue reading
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Ways to Read the Psalter
There are many ways that we can read the Psalms. One of the great church fathers from the fourth century, St. Athanasius, wrote a letter to his spiritual directee with advice on how to read the Psalms. The state argued that the Psalter was basically a synopsis of the whole Bible. He said that everything Continue reading
Bound in Love 