… to practise the full teaching of the Church as enshrined in the Book of Common Prayer
In the past I would have instantly answered with a “yes”. But experience has taught me that any relationship has two parts. Sometimes people give up or stop trying.
Soulmates are not discovered but are created by two people working hard.
Do you remember your favorite book from childhood?
Yes, I remember a picture book of the life of Jesus. I am not sure what happened to it.
I remember the feel and smell. Maybe my love of hardcover books started here? And I do remember the last page (and its very bad theology): Jesus waving good-bye from cloud.
List three books that have had an impact on you. Why?
I have heard many sermons, seen many illustrations, and been at many meetings. And, I think, this video says it all – if you know, you know:
Describe one simple thing you do that brings joy to your life.
I normally would write about books. Or maybe reading, or information. But the one thing that brings me unconditional joy is jigsaw puzzles. I love the peace and enjoy the development of the picture. In fact, I think jigsaw puzzles are a metaphor for the way that I think – I describe pieces and you make the picture.
Today is Trinity Sunday. The BCP sets John 3 as the Gospel while the Western Roman Rite has Matthew 28:18–20. Interesting?! I am not much of a theologian (hubris much?!) so the following needs to be read with some salt.
I have heard many sermons trying to explain the Trinity. Some end in modalism – oh, so modern – others in a different heresy. The worst are “children’s sermons” that use physical examples. I sometimes wonder if Trinity Sunday should not be renamed to “Heresy Sunday”?!
So, simply, a reworked quasi-quote from Kierkegaard:
[The Trinity] is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced
My Name Is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok. I read the whole book in a day, missing a lectures at Seminary. Maybe I should read it again?
The philosopher creates and critiques continuous lines of argument. The aphorist, on the other hand, composes scattered lines of intuition. One moves in a chain of discursive logic; the other by arrhythmic leaps and bounds. Much of the history of Western philosophy can be narrated as a series of attempts at the construction of systems. My theory proposes that much of the history of aphorisms can be narrated as an animadversion, a turning away from grand systems through the construction of literary fragments.
A Theory of the Aphorism, 2
