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Heaven & Earth (& Hell) 9 – God All In All

By Scott | Published: July 5, 2010
If the Christian vision of ultimate reality does not revolve around a concentration camp in the midst of paradise, what does it then involve? As I discussed earlier in the series, God is seen as everywhere present, filling and sustaining all things. Although that is both the present and future reality, that glory is now [...]
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Four Hundred Texts on Love 15

By Scott | Published: May 5, 2010
54.  St Paul says that, if we have all the gifts of the Spirit but do not have love, we are no further forward (cf. 1 Cor. 13:2). How assiduous, then, we ought to be in our efforts to acquire this love. 55. If ‘love prevents us from harming our neighbor’ (Rom. 13:10), he who [...]
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Amen! Amen!

By Scott | Published: February 18, 2010
This post is a reflection on something I’ve heard or read a number of times over the past several months from some pretty different sources. Although I wouldn’t say that any aspect of it was something I didn’t know beforehand, it’s been bouncing around my head now for some time. It’s time to express those [...]
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Evangelical Is Not Enough 5

By Scott | Published: February 6, 2010
Thomas Howard’s fifth chapter is titled: Hail, Blessed Virgin Mary: What Did the Angel Mean? Oddly, to my mind, he uses that introduction to explore how marriage is both a spiritual and physical union in a way that is intertwined and inseparable. He then builds on that to show how the foundation of Christian faith, [...]
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Constantine and the Church 4 – Church Buildings

By Scott | Published: August 14, 2009
I hadn’t actually planned this post in the series. But a few days ago the Internet Monk had a post on Architecture for the Glory of God and some of the comments in particular caught my eye. It seems like a number of those commenting had this strange idea that churches (the buildings) somehow began [...]
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