A lot of my people have interesting posts or ones that I would comment upon so… a cache of my links!
Bene Diction has some good Canadian links today. I loved the Canadian-American translator (though I wish the American English was my dialect of it) but the links on poutine made me mentally calculate the amount of damage I’d be doing to my arteries by eating it. (Saying this of course as I sit here eating my nice breakfast of Quaker oatmeal with raisins, nutmeg, cinnamon, and walnuts. And of course, drinking some Coke.) Cheese curd, fries, and gravy — ummm… no. That would be a Crohn’s flare-up in a bowl for me!
On Wayne’s blog, there has been the discussion on women and ordination. It’s been polite so far and then someone made the following comment:
The ordination of women should not be tolerated. There is no Scriptural support unless you willfully ignore clear passages and accept the more difficult ones (a clear methodological error by the way…) When Paul tells us that women are not to be in authority over the man in God’s church I think a 5 year old knows what that means.
Apparently, the 5 year-olds in my church are much more adept at New Testament history than the 5 year-olds in his church. 🙂 It also appears that he’s a little ignorant about the nature of Paul’s epistles and is neglecting to remember that they are letters to the churches addressing certain specific problems within those individual churches. The church in Corinth had problems with homosexuality that the church in Galatia didn’t have. My response was:
Most of the churches that ordain women also are not die-hard Reformed ones, so the covenantal matters that you speak of are not issues that they had to address. As I recall, Luther’s marriage to his wife Katie was counter-cultural for the time. And William, even the 5 year-olds in my church know enough about Paul to know that his letters are to individual churches. I’ll also invite you to my ordination in three years. 🙂
If you want more discussion on the subject, visit my candidacy blog.
Kristen speaks of wanting to hear John Donne recite poetry in heaven. I heartily concur.
Doug aspires to be a child again. A good goal… except that I just grew up. Ah well… I have the rest of my life to be an adult, but limited time to make use of my childish attributes. 🙂
