Motherhood: Its Meaning and Significance in the Market, Culture, and Bible

A brief presentation on motherhood by Fanny.  She looks at motherhood from three perspectives: the marketplace, the culture, and Scripture. 

Abort73: The Murder of Emmett Till

St. Irenaeus on Lent—Its Diversity and Unity among the Faithful: A Good Word for the Modern Dilemma

For the controversy is not merely as regards the [paschal] day, but also as regards the form itself of the fast.  For some consider themselves bound to fast one day, others two days, other still more, while others do so during forty...And this variety among the observers of the fasts had not its origin in our time [i.e., mid-second century A.D.], but long before in that of our predecessors, some of whom probably, being not very accurate in their observance of it, handed down to posterity the custom as it had, through simplicity or private fancy, been introduced among them.  And yet nevertheless all these lived in peace one with another, and we also keep peace together.  Thus, in fact, the difference in observing the fast establishes the harmony of our common faith.

                                        —St. Irenaeus, Fragments from the Lost Writings of Irenaeus, III.

Fighting the Good Fight of the Faithful

Anugrah Kumar of The Christian Post reports, “The Obama administration on Friday filed a brief, urging the Supreme Court to strike down Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act, which keeps the federal government from recognizing same-sex couples legally married in states, and calling the law unconstitutional.”

Let us therefore fight this further attack on normative values with the mightiest weapons we have!  “For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds” (2 Cor. 10:3—4). All of the Right’s lobbying and protest is impotent, without recognizing and fighting the spiritual darkness back of the personalities and powers.  So, let us, “in one accord,” pray for courts of justice in our land.

ALMIGHTY God, who sittest in the throne judging right; We humbly beseech thee to bless the courts of justice and magistrates in all this land; and give unto them a spirit of wisdom and understanding, that they may discern the truth, and impartially administer the law in the fear of thee alone; through him who shall come to be our Judge, they Son, our Savior Jesus Christ.  Amen! (BCP, 1928, pp. 35—36). 

How Long, until we will hear the voice of Wisdom, who beckons us, saying, “Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him, come, eat of my bread, and drink of the wine which I have mingled.  Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding” (Prov. 9:4—6)?