Bogosity

I attended my first lecture as a theological student last night in the course Introduction to Theology . I’m going to try and resist the urge to bore you with a bunch of facts and intellectually mind tangling questions but I thought I’d try and distil at least one relevent point or idea from [...]

This one came in an email from James. While it’s not exactly an exhaustive review of opinions and POVs within the agegroup, most of the items make sense.

Trinity Church – Ten Ways to Reach the 20s-30s Generation

Authenticity matters. Many young adults are skeptical of organized religion and associate smarmy televangelists with Christianity. Be authentic. [...]

This is really worth a listen – The religion report discusses the new pope’s first encyclical – like his papal newsletter to the church. He’s basically freaked everyone out by writing about compassion and love. We were expecting a conservative right-wing dude but instead we’ve got this…

The Religion Report: 1 February 2006 [...]

This reading has always meant a lot to me:

USCCB – (NAB) – February 20, 2006

Jesus said to him,
“‘If you can!’ Everything is possible to one who has faith.”
Then the boy’s father cried out, “I do believe, help my unbelief!”
Jesus, on seeing a crowd rapidly gathering,
rebuked the unclean spirit and said to it,
“Mute and deaf spirit, [...]

As you may know, every day of the year has an associated Saint (at least in the catholic church). Today’s is fairly recent, miraculous in the sense of things I find hard to believe…

Blessed Jacinta and Francisco Marto – Saint of the Day – American Catholic

At the first appearance, Mary asked the children to [...]

I’ve added a category for this blog called formation. I’m not actually in formation though – first I have to go through discernment. Discernment is a time used to discuss the ins and outs of being ordained and ordained life etc… to make sure that I really want to start down that path [...]

So many things to write about and so little time. John Saffran and Fr Bob are back on Sunday nights on Triple J. Compass like ten years ago was interesting – it was about the Big Issue and inspired me to buy a copy when I was in town. I’ve been reading [...]