Even the Devils Believe

There’s been a really interesting conversation going on in the Anglican blogosphere about communion without baptism. I think it started with this piece at the Episcopal Cafe by Derek. I read the piece but then lost the thread of the conversation until I read bls’ excellent summary and contribution.
I don’t think I’ve followed [...]

Over the weekend, Fr Dwight Longenecker, an ex-Anglican convert to the Roman church, asked some questions on the traditional Latin Mass (he mistakenly refers to it as simply “the Latin Mass”) and received some answers from Shawn Tribe on the New Liturgical Movement blog.
Though I have a great deal of affection for the old Rite, [...]

The fights over English texts for the Mass in the Roman Catholic Church continue — Amy Wellborn posted an article by Bp Donald Trautman, who heads up the Roman bishops’ committee on liturgy in the US, criticizing the new translations. Her article and the comments are worth reading. A few of the comments are [...]

Kate Harding over at Shakesville posted last week about the disturbing trend of Christian-brand diets and supposedly faith-based programs for losing weight, along with a video about the diets. At the end of her post, she comments on the single critical statement made by the journalist in the video:
“Some dieticians question the soundness of [...]

Commonweal has a mini-symposium up on the topic of homosexuality and the Roman Catholic Church, with Luke Timothy Johnson and blogger Eve Tushnet contributing. It’s worth a read (BT: Don Jim), with some very surprising turns from both contributors.
I’m surprised to find Johnson, whose book on Romans helped me start to defuse the clobber [...]

The Western Confucian quotes a report describing the plight of Christians in Iraq under the current regime:
After the liberation of Iraq in 2003, the average number of murders for the years 2003-2007 was 67, 2827% higher than for the years 1995-2002. The geographic distribution of the murders was 35.54% in north Iraq, 61.67% in central [...]

I’ve been tagged by Jorge and Kate to do the 8 things meme, so here goes.
Here are the rules…
* Each player starts with eight random facts/habits about themselves.
* People who are tagged need to write their own blog about their eight things and post these rules.
* At the end [...]

Has anyone used or even seen the Plainsong Psalter from Church Publishing? John-Julian+ was kind enough to send me some OJN chant materials, so now I have resources to actually chant the Rite II office, but I’m curious whether the “official” TEC resource is any good or not. So far, I haven’t been [...]

Blessed Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus!
John (Serge) links to a post with quotes on the devotion from St Gertrude the Great, St Mechthild, and St Thérèse.
I’ve been reading Gertrude’s Herald of the Memorial of Divine Love the last couple days, thanks to +Laura’s stories about her. (Gertrude is one of her focuses [...]

From my friend Mary, who spent a semester in Tanzania:
Please take the time to read this article about the plight of the Hadzabe in Tanzania.
The Hadzabe are one of the few remaining “bushmen” tribes in the world. They are nomadic hunters and gatherers who still remain mostly untainted by the trappings of the modern world. [...]