name that icon…

30Mar09

Are there any ‘iconographists’ out there that could name the icon above?   I’m not at all versed in Eastern Orthodox icons, but I really dig this.  I found it at a rockin thrift store in Alabaster, AL (America’s Thrift = Glory!) still in a plastic covering, for like two bucks.   Judging from the face, I [...]

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Tags: Christian iconography, Eastern Orthodox, Eastern Orthodox icons, icon, iconography, thrift store

bread, wine, and the least of these

24Mar09

bread, wine, and the least of these
by tyler priest
we are more religious
than we think
we celebrate the Eucharist
quite often
if it is true
that the Christ is found
in the least of these
we are more religious than we think
we consume the poor
day to day
buying things they made
for us to enjoy
low prices, better living
brought to us
by the least of these
we [...]

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Tags: consumerism, eucharist, fair trade, Holy Communion, religiosity, social justice, the high cost of low prices, Wal-mart

the parable of the puzzle

21Mar09

There lived on the outskirts of a city, in a quaint cottage, an old, retired professor. This professor’s life’s work had been an attempt to disprove the existence of God–especially the existence of the Christian God. His library, in which he took great pride, was full of the works of well-known atheistic [...]

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Tags: atheism, mystery, parable, Trinity

Am I a Christian or an American?

19Mar09

My friend Dan (a high priest of the Priesthood) was telling me a story the other day about a conversation he had with his beautiful six-year-old daughter Natalie. A little context: Dan and his family don’t “go to church,” at least not in the American Christendom (read: Bible Belt) sense of the the phrase [...]

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Tags: nationalism, syncretism

Kings of Leon know how to lament

18Mar09

And it’s some of the saddest lyrics, and obviously you can tell that was a person who felt like he was at the end of his rope. And the only thing I remember from that day about that session, was saying, ‘Jesus don’t love me.’…It was the saddest thing I’d ever said… And (someone) [...]

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Tags: caleb followill, kings of leon, lament, liturgy of lament, only by the night, psalms, psalms of lament