December 2010
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Church of the Happy Sky Fairies
Most people’s ecclesiology is decidedly gnostic. Somewhere along the line we broke with Rome and we also decided to break with an actual meaning to words like “one another,” “leaders,” and “submit to.” Community became this romantic ideal that we experience merely through “organic” relationships. Submission became a sexist, patriarchal sort of...
“It’s ironic, but true, that one of the qualifications of the modern...”
– Anthony Esolen, Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child
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RedMountain & PageCXVI
Our friends Tifah, Reid, and Dann have released (under the name of Page CXVI) their third in a series of hymns albums. It is good. Very good. Their arrangement of Be Still My Soul has become a regular in our home and the other songs both echo the hymns sung in my youth but bring an interpretation of these texts which makes the old seem new and affective. They have chosen to adapt fairly popular...
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“An education, then, is a constellation of practices, rituals, and routines that...”
– James K.A. Smith, Desiring the Kingdom, p.26