The Scriptorium Daily

Year: 2010

  • Epiphany (T.S. Eliot on the Magi)

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    Greg Peters
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    A wonderful poem to ponder today on Epiphany: The Journey of the Magi “A cold coming we had of it, Just the worst time of the year For a journey, and such a long journey: The was deep and the weather sharp, The very dead of winter.” And the camels galled, sore-footed, refractory, Lying down…

  • The Baptism of Christ: 2. John the Baptist

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    Fred Sanders
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    Pictures of the baptism of Christ are visually busy, filled with characters and details. Since it’s a baptism, it makes sense to start with a close look at John the Baptist. John is an important New Testament character, and Christian artists have assigned him his own iconographic details. You can read all about it, and…

  • Mary Daly (1928-2010): Radical Feminist Theologian

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    Fred Sanders
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    The term “radical feminism” gets tossed around pretty loosely in theological circles, and usually means “feminism that goes farther than I’m comfortable with.” But there are such things as radical feminist theologians. Probably the most influential of them all, Mary Daly, died this week. This post (rather long, probably only of interest to theologians after…

  • The Baptism of Christ: 1. The Earliest Images

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    Fred Sanders
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    The baptism of Christ is among the earliest New Testament scenes selected for depiction in Christian art. Günter Ristow mentions this in Die Taufe Christi (Recklinghausen: Verlag Aurel Bongers, 1965, 12). It is found in the catacombs, on early christian sarcophagi, and in the very first christian monumental architecture. Given all the water imagery in…

  • The Baptism of Christ: Worth Pondering

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    Fred Sanders
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    Christmas is past, and in a church calendar that tracks with the life of Jesus, the season of epiphany is here. In some parts of the Christian tradition, that means it’s time to think about the wise men, who actually got to Bethlehem far too late to pose for the manger scene. In other parts…

  • The Church-Based University (Book Review)

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    Fred Sanders
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    Start with a secular social order, and the university system as it stands today, and then ask yourself, “How much would we have to trim our Christian convictions to fit a Christian university into that system?” Given that we absolutely must obey the liberal, democratic state and culture, how are we to build a Christian…

  • Palindrome Day

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    Fred Sanders
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    January 2, 2010, was an important date: If you write it in mm/dd/yyyy format, it’s 01/02/2010, which is the same sequence of numbers forwards or backwards: 01022010. A numerical palindrome. Who would notice something like this, or care? Plenty of people found it interesting. Because plenty of people walk among us, turning word and number…

  • Wedding Sermon: Apply Your Minds to Concord

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    Fred Sanders
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    Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today at the beginning of a new year to witness the creation of a new thing. The new thing is a new family, and the maker of this new thing is God almighty, maker of heaven and earth. Once upon a time, God made everything that is, from nothing,…