Our dialogue with Anaiah, an educated Jew from the 500’s B.C., continues. Anaiah: We have been talking about how God has chosen to bless all the families of the earth not by a supernatural display but through the modest, even unknown figure of Abraham. There is an important point here. Suppose you are a botanist … [Read more…]
This Sunday at Noon after the service, bring your animals for a blessing.
Join us this Sunday October 1, 2017 at Noon for a service of Pet Blessings. We do this in recognition of St. Francis and the great honor we have as caretakers and stewards of our animal companions. We will pray over and bless each animal. If weather is good, we’ll gather outside. If weather is … [Read more…]
Starting on Sunday, September 24, at 9:10 am (between our two liturgies) St. Barnabas will hold a class to examine the Catechism published by the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA). A catechism is a summary of basic Christian belief and practice intended for use in teaching those fundamentals to new and developing Christians (hence … [Read more…]
Our time machine has brought us together with Anaiah, an educated Jew from the 500’s B.C. He has learned our language and something of our culture and understands that we want to find out what the Hebrew sacred writings say about God’s communications with human beings. Anaiah suggests that we begin with Abraham. St. Barnabas … [Read more…]
We have resolved to look at the Bible, starting with the Old Testament, to see whether it provides evidence that the creator of our ordered and moral universe has communicated with human beings. Some may be skeptical that writers of well over two thousand years ago, lacking modern science and technology, could provide any useful … [Read more…]
Some people read a New Testament passage like Mark 15:33, which says that “darkness came over the whole land” for three hours during the crucifixion of Jesus, and wonder if maybe it describes a solar eclipse. The answer is no, for three sufficient reasons. No total eclipse was visible in Judea at the time of … [Read more…]
Congratulations to all who survived the solar eclipse with eyesight intact! It is interesting that a conjunction of heavenly bodies has produced such busy news comment and mass travel. To be sure, it is rare to have a solar eclipse visible in the continental United States, but it seems odd that a brief occlusion of … [Read more…]
Previous installments of this series have summarized some principles of “natural theology,” which considers what can be known about the universe and God simply by looking around with attention. The universe is governed by physical laws, and it appears to be governed by moral principles as well. Both of these are puzzling. How … [Read more…]
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