Medicine of Immortality "It's a cold, and it's a broken, 'Hallelujah!'"

Someone’s birthday is quickly approaching…Posted by Rachel on September 22nd, 2007

How did this happen?

Near Michigan?Posted by Rick on September 19th, 2007

If you’re near Grand Rapids, be sure to go to Calvin College’s fall preaching conference. Todd Farley is giving lectures on The Lively Sermon. I’ve had the joy to sit under Todd for a semester, and let me just say, he has incredible preaching skills. It’s a treat you do not want to miss.

This is pretty messed up.Posted by Rick on September 18th, 2007

UF police tase a student for questioning John Kerry (okay, maybe it’s harassing him, but isn’t this the way liberals question?).

Videos of Kyrie saying and doing cute thingsPosted by Rachel on September 18th, 2007

Click for cuteness.

Quote of the dayPosted by Rick on September 17th, 2007

I was ranting about how OU should be better ranked than LSU (my Sooner pride runneth over), when one of my female students piped up, “LSU deserves to be #2. They have a hot quarterback.”

More KyriePosted by Rachel on September 15th, 2007

I can’t help myself. She’s been really cute lately.

Too clean for our own healthPosted by Rachel on September 15th, 2007

This article makes me feel better about the usual state of our home:

From the constant use of anti-bacterial soap for dish- and hand-washing to air-tight seals around doors and windows, some modern homes have become shrines to hygiene. Add vaccinations and antibiotics to the mix and the body’s immune system can get too much artificial reprieve from nature.

The Shifting EastPosted by Rick on September 14th, 2007

I’ve been delving into the heortology of the Christian East in the past few weeks, looking today in general at the Triduuum and specifically the Holy Saturday Orthos in the Triodion. I’ve come to a few conclusions about Constantinople:

1) Nearly every liturgical innovation during Late Antiquity, especially in heortology, comes from the East (with the exception of the Nativity).
2) Almost nothing we call characteristically Byzantine was in old Constantinople.
3) Constantinople was waaay behind the curve when it comes to the rest of the East. Jerusalem had developed stational services by the time of Egeria, but Constantinope remained immune to change until the monastic period following the struggle over Iconoclasm (when hagiopolite elements “enriched” [depending on perspective] their worship about 400 years later).

While I believe a lot of people go East for good reasons, I simply cannot understand why people return to the East because of the historical stability of their worship and calendar. Although some Orthodox claim their liturgy is unchanging, I have to wonder what planet they are living on.

Kyrie pictures (mostly from today)Posted by Rachel on September 13th, 2007

This one is from the other day, but I took the rest today. She decided to snuggle up in front of the TV for some cartoons.

She’s pouting here because she didn’t want me to take her picture.

I managed to cheer her up.

She’s been rather angelic today. I found her reading first:

And then quietly coloring:

Theological Rap: Straight Tribbin’Posted by Rick on September 13th, 2007

If you haven’t heard this, you should: http://www.myspace.com/trudawgma

Tru Dawgma – Straight Tribbin’

Eschatological know-how, not evangelical lowbrow
Postmodern cash cow
Revelation based on canonization
The millennial nation looms in dispensation
I spit pedagogy orthodoxy
Prima manifesto in the incarnation proxy
Imprimatur, my roots be the hypostatic union
The theocratic fusion, infusin’

Portiuncula mentalities be waxin’
Straight tribulation factions gaining esoteric traction
No apology, my strict epistemology
Will influence doxology and put you in a quandary
Infralapsarian… tribulation prose
Makes me wary and your pragmatism’s blatantly exposed
I Didache your Tim Lahaye while rapture spankin’ Jerry Jenkins…
Now cogitate this great awakenin’

Hook
Tribba-what (what?), Tribba-who (who?)
Flex eschatological like straight tribbahs do (2x)

Rapture, comin’ at ya, gonna fetch ya, gonna catch ya
I be a theocrat with exegesis comin’ natural
Ontology gazes in the wake of Armageddon
Pleroma in soma, not a disconnected remnant
Reviviscence is valid and callus as operatum
While your unbelief and disposition won’t even fade Him
Cardiognosis, He knows your thoughts and your dreams
Like the Sadducees, your heresy is leaking out the seams

What, what, who? Henotheistic views
Are romanticized, sanitized, still ain’t true
But from the parthenogenesis to the Parousia
We got imputed righteousness until the day we meet up
Since the ascension we got metaphysical nominalists
Refer to Postulates for obedientialis
Hidden like the pseudepigrapha in the
Deuterocanonical pack – the apost-hata’s back!