Two different Celtic Christian prayers from the Western Isles of Scotland today. One is a mother’s blessing to her baby; perhaps one of the most beautiful of all the Celtic prayers. The Bible is big on blessing and yet our culture has exchanged “providing” for “blessing” with tragic results. Here is the blessing — consider [...]
St. Columbanus, a Celtic Christian leader and church planter of the late 6th and early 7th centuries, answered his critics from Rome with “Amor non tent ordinam” (Love does not concern itself with order). The Roman church would go into an area, build its worship place, and then bring the people there up to their [...]
One engaging old prayer that the Celts used that says much about their attitudes, reality, and the politics of the time goes thusly: To go to Rome Is much of trouble, little of profit; The King whom thou seekest there, Unless thou bring Him with thee, thou wilt not find. In a similar fashion, many [...]
I’ve thought about doing a series on Celtic prayer and the Celtic idea of “thin places” — those places where the distance between our physical world and the spiritual world is so thin that hints of the other side come to us. The Celtic Christians believed that the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit were all [...]
This is a very interesting question that came in last week. It is also a timely one as we find ourselves surrounded by more and more people with no faith or with faiths that are very strange to us. I was at lunch on Tuesday with a Muslim, an Atheist Buddhist, and a Christian. Our [...]
Back to the questions… and we have a doozy today! I’m a young student and I spend a lot of time thinking about government, especially now, and the role it plays in our lives. A lot of the “hot-button” issues are directly related to the Church and it’s ideals. Is it wrong to involve Christian [...]
I blogged over at patrickmead.net about Aaron Fairbairn, the soldier killed a few days ago in Afghanistan when an Islamofascist drove a truck bomb into an Army base. Also killed was another young soldier who has just been identified. I know I just posted a blog here yesterday and a new one at my other [...]
There is a lot of angst out there about our economic crisis, the direction of our nation, the state of our religious tribe, and the state of Christianity as a whole in the US. I am often asked what we should do about each of these things. I fear my answers are not what the [...]
We are taking a break from questions for tonight. This is something that’s been on my mind for awhile. We got another survey/poll done recently that said that nearly 90% of Americans approved of national health care… until they were asked if they would be willing to pay more to get it (and make sure [...]