RSSEntries from July 2008
Free Issue of Semper Reformanda
Chellis and I are the current editors of the RP journal, Semper Reformanda, which has been publishing for the past 17 years. Our most recent issue contained a colloquium on psalmody, which featured some of your favorite DRC authors, such as Caleb Stegall and D.G. Hart. Primarily, RP pastors and elders read this journal. We [...]
Beer and civilization
Sad news today about the sale of Anheuser-Busch to the Belgian-owned, Brazilian-run InBev company. Of course, you shouldn’t have been drinking very much Budweiser even before this sale. You should be drinking local beer (or making your own). But now Budweiser must definitely be booted from the fridge.
Anyway, this news story has spawned an outstanding [...]
An American Patriot Fittingly Passes to A Better Country
On the 4th of July. Made of the same stuff as founders John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, Senator Jesse Helms ended his pilgrimage on the 4th of July.
His name will live on as long as men continue to love their country and its tradition.
He has found a better country. [...]
Happy Birthday America!
It is Independence Day, the 4th of July, and my family will be doing all thing patriotic. We already caught the Sodus Bay fireworks late last night. Today we will be going over to the Genessee Country Museum for the festivities- including a traditional parade followed by a reading the Declaration of Independence. [...]
A More Fruitful Discussion
I think we were having a fruitful discussion of the relationship between forms, tradition, community, ect. before the conversation degenerated.
I think these are fruitful areas for continued discussion. If it is impolitic to discuss these matters concretely on the basis of the Psalm revisions let us look at the matter more abstractly. [...]
RE: No more discussion
What delicious irony … traditionalists squelched by clerical heavy-handedness in favor of modernizing language … where’s the priesthood of all believers when you need it? The wheels on the bus go round and round …
I say we go back to Latin scriptures AND priesthood of all believers rather than gutter English and the priesthood of [...]
No more Psalm Revision discussion
I have been asked by my ecclesiastical betters to stop making or allowing posts about the Psalm Revision committee’s work. This is an ecclesiastically controlled blog and now do my duty- no more on Psalm Revision.
Rather, I have been told to make sure comments- positive and negative- go to the Psalm Revision Committee. [...]