(From Nov. 2010 and updated) Tomorrow is the first Lord’s Day in the Church’s Liturgical Year. On Sunday, Christians who follow this calendar will begin a new year of living in the Gospel with the commencement of Advent. The diagram on the right gives an overview of the annual Church calendar. Advent is the seasonContinue reading “Another Look: Church Year Spirituality”
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Saturday Ramblings 12.1.12
December? Did I hear the calendar turn to December? What year? You’re kidding me. It’s already December of this year? My oh my. Where has this year gone? If you are new to these pages, each week here at the iMonastery we grab the broom and clean up the leftovers, gleanings we were unable toContinue reading “Saturday Ramblings 12.1.12”
The Common Teaching of Holy Church
Today is the last of our series on Julian of Norwich. Damaris and Martha have walked us through Amy Frykholm’s book about Dame Julian, as well as exploring themes that Julian introduced six hundred years ago. I hope you’ve enjoyed these discussions this week. JD And yet in all this time, from the beginning toContinue reading “The Common Teaching of Holy Church”
The Church Of England, Women Bishops, NT Wright & Complementarians
Mike Bell sent me a link yesterday to a blog written by Scott Lencke, an American serving as pastor of a church in Brussels, Belgium. The particular post Mike wanted me to read was one he felt should be shared with all iMonks. I agreed, and Scott graciously gave his permission to share it here.Continue reading “The Church Of England, Women Bishops, NT Wright & Complementarians”
Tis Easier To Give Than Receive
I am not a Bible scholar. No one is ever going to ask me to be on a Bible translation team. I don’t read or understand biblical Greek. I have written books, but none even close to being considered “academic.” But I do want to offer my interpretation of Acts 20:35. The traditional rendering ofContinue reading “Tis Easier To Give Than Receive”
Julian Of Norwich: Grounded and Rooted in Love
Also in this He shewed me a little thing, the quantity of an hazel-nut, in the palm of my hand; and it was as round as a ball. I looked thereupon with eye of my understanding, and thought: What may this be? And it was answered generally thus: It is all that is made. IContinue reading “Julian Of Norwich: Grounded and Rooted in Love”
Julian’s Divine Revelations
As mentioned, we know very little about Dame Julian. We don’t know if she was, as the saying goes, “maid, wife or widow”. We don’t even know what date she entered her anchorhold, or what were the circumstances that led her to make this choice. Frykholm has an imaginative reconstruction of Julian’s life, a proposalContinue reading “Julian’s Divine Revelations”
The Three Desires of Julian of Norwich
When Julian was a young girl, she expressed to God three desires: The first was minde of his passion; The second was bodily sickness in youth; The third was to have of God’s gift three wounds. In other words, she wanted to understand and always remember Christ’s passion. She wanted to come close to theContinue reading “The Three Desires of Julian of Norwich”
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The Constant Seeker: Julian of Norwich
Julian of Norwich was an English contemplative Christian who lived during what Barbara Tuchman has called “the calamitous fourteenth century.” A small child when the Black Death first devastated her home city of Norwich in eastern England, she experienced several recurrences of the epidemic during her lifetime. This was the time of the Hundred Years’Continue reading “The Constant Seeker: Julian of Norwich”
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