The church is not tied to a text in such a way that nothing will ever be done for the first time. In new situations those who ‘indwell’ the story of which Jesus is the centre will have to make new and risky decisions about what faithfulness to the Author of the story requires. There can be no drawing of a straight line from a text of scripture to a contemporary ethical decision; there will always be the requirement of a fresh decision in responsibility to the One whose story it is.
[gallery] lawrenceleemagnuson:
Maurice de Vlaminck (France 1876-1958)
Le village (n.d.)
watercolor on paper 15.5 x 20.5 in.,
making book
So after my talk at Carleton College today, in which among other things I praised the technology of the codex, my host Fred Hagstrom asked me, “Have you ever made a book?” I coughed gently and acknowledged that I had not. Fred replied, “Do you want to learn how?” I said that I very much would, at which point Fred marched me over to his studio, where we made a book. We chose and cut paper, sewed signatures, chose boards for covers and wrapped them in two tones of cloth, put the whole thing together and popped it into a press. I’ll stop by this evening to pick it up.
How cool is that?
If you want to learn the same basic technique Fred taught me, you can watch this video tutorial he made.
[gallery] drawingarchitecture:
Eu Jin Lim, Unfolded internal elevations of Cheong Fatt Tze Mansion, Penang, Malaysia.
Yet also, yn the name of al that ys goode, studye biforehand and do nat place all of thy trust yn the All-Nighter alone. As yt ys wyth the feedinge of cattes, so wyth studyinge. Yf thou dost let the kibble disappear completelye from the catte foode bowle, the catte shal yowl and make great complainte and disaster shal folowe. But fille the bowl litel by litel, daye by daye, and the yowlinge and disaster shal nevir come and thy catte shal be moost mirthful. And so yt ys wyth the kibble of learninge and the bowl of thy mynde and the unrulye and demandinge catte of grades.
Just doesn’t feel good – Marco.org
Just doesn’t feel good – Marco.org
Since few buyers of Peace are likely to seek refunds — Apple makes the process unwieldy, and many buyers will want to keep using the app anyway — this is a pretty good deal for Marco. He gets to keep a pile of cash for an app that he won’t maintain or support. It would’ve been nice if he had thought all this through before putting Peace on the market.
I was brought up in the church, back in the old days before the deluge when church-going, confirmation and so on were ordinary landmarks of life, but lost touch with it for twenty years, like almost all of my generation. I came to real belief as an adult, after a practical demonstration of God’s mercy at work in my life. I’m at the liberal end of the Christian spectrum, I suppose, in that I support the ordination of women, with full authority, to all three of the historic orders of priesthood; and I’ve come around, slightly to my surprise, to thinking that same-sex marriage is something we should be bringing within the Christian vision of a faithful, monogamous union. But though these things matter a lot to me as justice issues, they are not central to me as a Christian. If I’m a liberal, I’m a liberal saved by the blood of the Lamb. It is Christ that makes me a Christian, and the story of redemption and resurrection with Him at its heart. I come from a parish setting where it would seem a crazy luxury to pick and choose between different styles or schools of faith, not to mention weirdly beside the point. Locally, Christians of all kinds co-operate as a matter of basic survival – beggars can’t be choosers – but that seems right to me theologically as well. God is bigger than our tastes, our divisions and our theories. In Him is neither slave nor free, neither Jew nor Greek, and neither liberal nor conservative either. We’re all brothers and sisters. We should behave like it.— My friend Francis Spufford, who is standing for election to the Church of England’s House of Laity.
[gallery] newberrylibrary:
This 18th-century infographic showing “English Government in 1790” was part of a pamphlet explaining different Western constitutional systems. In the diagram here, the center is occupied by the British crown and the outer ring (6) represents the disenfranchised class: “the Body of the People variously operated upon, and amused by forms, but having no election, choice, or share in the Political Government.” #ConstitutionDay (at Newberry Library)
