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A La Carte (2/13)
- 02/13/09
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Love is in the Details
Rev. Kev. points to an interesting blog at First Things. "In a age where romantic love equals sex and sentimentality, and on the eve of the eve of Valentine's Day, I found the article's depiction of marital love to be quite moving, in spite of (or is it because of?) the earthiness of the subject matter."
A Review of The Shack
This one is short and just plain funny.
Indulgences Return
This piece at the NY Times has generated a lot of buzz. I believe indulgences have been available all along, even if they haven't been publicized. "The announcement in church bulletins and on Web sites has been greeted with enthusiasm by some and wariness by others. But mainly, it has gone over the heads of a vast generation of Roman Catholics who have no idea what it means: "Bishop Announces Plenary Indulgences.""
Saying Goodbye to Facebook
Newsweek: "I was so addicted to my imaginary playgroup, I put the Facebook application on my BlackBerry. That way I could know immediately when some kid who used to pick on me in elementary school was reaching out across the years to remind me that I still had cooties."
Rev. Kev. points to an interesting blog at First Things. "In a age where romantic love equals sex and sentimentality, and on the eve of the eve of Valentine's Day, I found the article's depiction of marital love to be quite moving, in spite of (or is it because of?) the earthiness of the subject matter."
A Review of The Shack
This one is short and just plain funny.
Indulgences Return
This piece at the NY Times has generated a lot of buzz. I believe indulgences have been available all along, even if they haven't been publicized. "The announcement in church bulletins and on Web sites has been greeted with enthusiasm by some and wariness by others. But mainly, it has gone over the heads of a vast generation of Roman Catholics who have no idea what it means: "Bishop Announces Plenary Indulgences.""
Saying Goodbye to Facebook
Newsweek: "I was so addicted to my imaginary playgroup, I put the Facebook application on my BlackBerry. That way I could know immediately when some kid who used to pick on me in elementary school was reaching out across the years to remind me that I still had cooties."
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Comments (10)
This is possibly the source of the confused review http://purgatorio1.com/?p=772
Thanks for link, Tim. I was more than happy to give the review a helpful rating!
Well, now I started my day with a wonderful chuckle. What a funny review, not an NBA fan myself but for this guys sake I hope someone writes a book titled "The Shaq"
ok, i just went to purgatorio, evidently the book is already out. I just read the following from Institutes of the Christian Religion regarding the Trinity and the nature of the distinctions of persons - this quote might serve as a good caution for both The Shack and The Shaq:"I am not sure whether it is expedient to borrow analogies from human affairs to express the nature of this distinction. The ancient fathers sometimes do so, but they at the same time admits that what they bring forward as analogous is very widely different. And hence it is that I have a great dread of any thing like presumption here, lest some rash saying may furnish an occasion of calumny to the malicious, or of delusion to the unlearned." http://www.reformed.org/master/index.html?mainframe=/books/institutes/
Whatever the source of The Shack reivew - I laughed so hard. Thanks for the link and the laugh!
I'm going to post the link to "Saying Goodbye to Facebook" on my wall...
Xandra
I share the Facebook sentiments. Unfortunately I ended up quitting under counsel of my pastor, however. Facebook makes it easy to foster sinful relationships and hide from real life. But you know what, I have not missed it since i have been gone, and have had so much more time for reading and real fellowship.
I got a Facebook simply because a bunch of my friends were on it and, honestly, I don't see the attraction other than the ability to net-stalk people you went to junior high with. (Which I've done a fair amount of.) But once you've checked out what all these people you used to know are "up to", what's left, other than using it as a poor man's twitter (i.e. status updates)?
Sites like LinkedIn seem vastly more useful. But then again, I actually work for a living. :) (Sometimes).
Did anyone else find this statement on the Indulgences and the year long celebration of St. Paul sadly ironic? "The current offer is tied to the yearlong celebration of St. Paul, which continues through June....the basic requirements: going to confession, receiving holy communion, saying a prayer for the pope and achieving “complete detachment from any inclination to sin."
Oh, man.
74 of 80 people found the review of The Shack "helpful".