“Pure religion has, in fact, a good deal in common with pure science . . .What they have chiefly in common is humility.” Dorothy Sayers in an address to the Socratic Club
At their bases religion and science are simply the study of, and submission to, God.
James 1:27
Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
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Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Sunday, February 5, 2012
Naked
“We need not remind ourselves of the furious barrage of advertisement by which people are flattered and frightened out of a reasonable contentment into a greedy hankering after goods which they do not really need; nor point out for the thousandth time how every evil passion—snobbery, laziness, vanity, concupiscence, ignorance, greed—is appealed to in these campaigns. . . .
“For it is the great curse of Gluttony that it ends by destroying all sense of the precious, the unique, the irreplaceable.” Dorothy L. Sayers, The Other Six Deadly Sins: An Address given to the Public Morality Council
I Timothy 6:6-10
But godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it. But if we have food and clothing, we will be content with that. Those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.
Job 1:21
“For it is the great curse of Gluttony that it ends by destroying all sense of the precious, the unique, the irreplaceable.” Dorothy L. Sayers, The Other Six Deadly Sins: An Address given to the Public Morality Council
I Timothy 6:6-10
But godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it. But if we have food and clothing, we will be content with that. Those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.
Job 1:21
"Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked I will depart. The LORD gave and the LORD has taken away; may the name of the LORD be praised."
Thursday, January 12, 2012
Good Fortune
“All fortune is good—whether be it harsh or be it pleasing . . .yet I know not who would dare to say so to foolish men, for no fool could believe it.” Charles Williams, quoting Boethius in The Descent of the Dove.
"Charles Walter Stansby Williams was most often associated with the Inklings (a group of Christian writers including J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis), Williams was also cited as a major influence on W.H. Auden's conversion to Christianity and he was a peer and friend of T.S. Eliot, Dorothy Sayers and Evelyn Underhill." From the website: http://tomwills.typepad.com/thenewchristianyear/
Tomorrow is another Friday the 13th. I have always claimed those as my "lucky" days. My thirtheeth birthday fell on a Friday the 13th in 1961. But luck has nothing to do with our lives as Christians. "All good things come from the father," (James 1:17) and our "fortune is good."
Romans 8: 22-28 NIV
We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption to sonship, the redemption of our bodies. For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what they already have? But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.
In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans. And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God. In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans. And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God. And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.
"Charles Walter Stansby Williams was most often associated with the Inklings (a group of Christian writers including J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis), Williams was also cited as a major influence on W.H. Auden's conversion to Christianity and he was a peer and friend of T.S. Eliot, Dorothy Sayers and Evelyn Underhill." From the website: http://tomwills.typepad.com/thenewchristianyear/
Tomorrow is another Friday the 13th. I have always claimed those as my "lucky" days. My thirtheeth birthday fell on a Friday the 13th in 1961. But luck has nothing to do with our lives as Christians. "All good things come from the father," (James 1:17) and our "fortune is good."
Romans 8: 22-28 NIV
We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption to sonship, the redemption of our bodies. For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what they already have? But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.
In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans. And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God. In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans. And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God. And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.
Sunday, January 8, 2012
Mystery and Wimsey
“To the young people of my generation, G.K. Chesterton was a kind of Christian liberator. Like a beneficent bomb, he blew out of the Church a quantity of stained glass of a very poor period, and let in gusts of fresh air . . .” Dorothy Sayers, Introduction to The Surprise by G. K. Chesterton.
Dorothy Sayers’ was the classically educated daughter of a clergyman, a renowned Latin scholar and Christian apologist. Her prolific writing includes a number of mysteries some of which feature the sleuthing couple, Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dorothy-Sayers/111945848823652?sk=info
I claim a slight kinship. I too am the descendant of numerous Christian ministers and am the author of a murder mystery that introduces a sleuthing couple, Grit Griffin and Grace Willis. I include Christian apologetics in most of what I write.
Ephesians 3:2-6
Surely you have heard about the administration of God’s grace that was given to me for you, that is, the mystery made known to me by revelation, as I have already written briefly. In reading this, then, you will be able to understand my insight into the mystery of Christ, which was not made known to people in other generations as it has now been revealed by the Spirit to God’s holy apostles and prophets. This mystery is that through the gospel the Gentiles are heirs together with Israel, members together of one body, and sharers together in the promise in Christ Jesus.
Dorothy Sayers’ was the classically educated daughter of a clergyman, a renowned Latin scholar and Christian apologist. Her prolific writing includes a number of mysteries some of which feature the sleuthing couple, Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dorothy-Sayers/111945848823652?sk=info
I claim a slight kinship. I too am the descendant of numerous Christian ministers and am the author of a murder mystery that introduces a sleuthing couple, Grit Griffin and Grace Willis. I include Christian apologetics in most of what I write.
Ephesians 3:2-6
Surely you have heard about the administration of God’s grace that was given to me for you, that is, the mystery made known to me by revelation, as I have already written briefly. In reading this, then, you will be able to understand my insight into the mystery of Christ, which was not made known to people in other generations as it has now been revealed by the Spirit to God’s holy apostles and prophets. This mystery is that through the gospel the Gentiles are heirs together with Israel, members together of one body, and sharers together in the promise in Christ Jesus.
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