Yearly Archives: 2006

Swift Kick in the Ass

I’ve set up a meeting to deliver chapters One and Two to Scary Prof. I think it’ll be next Tuesday. Why the title of this post? Because One and Two aren’t done yet. In fact, since my flash drive died, I’m not entirely sure where chapter One is… So we’ll call this a bit of forced motivation.

Go Figure…

Class was great today. I haven’t talked much about class recently—or at all, come to think of it…  It’s going well and I have a great group of students. Today I tried something I was a little hesitant to do—I gave them one of Æ’s sermons to chew on (SupHom XIa for the OE geeks…). My topic was integration. That is, how does the lit. year fit within our theologies and within those of our local churches? How do we keep it from being an “extra” or something tacked on. Rather, what would it look like if it was an integral part of how we understand the faith? Æ’s sermon presents a great model. It’s a catechetical/missionary sermon that basically moves through the grand narrative following the Apostles’ Creed; the section on the 2nd Article is a rehearsal of the life of Christ as seen through the lit. year. They loved it; I was thrilled.

Oh yeah–SBL

SBL was fantastic. M and I both went to some wonderful sessions. I completely got my world rocked and have a whole new model of Pauline cosmology now. Good thing my diss isn’t on that—I’d have to start over. The best things was seeing people, of course. Hung out with Anastasia, had a great chat with AKMA in the book room, reconnected with undergrad friends. Great motivation to keep working on the diss again…

 

 

Slow Monday

Couldn’t find the car keys this morning–spent about a half hour searching even going to the extreme of waking Lil’ G and asking her if she’d swiped them (not altogether an impossibility…). Finally found them in a pants pocket. I so hate the Monday off a long weekend!

 

Since I couldn’t get off on time, I had to drive in all the way so no Morning Office…again. Short of adopting the patented bls commute-Office it certainly is harder to do it without a mass transit component to my day.

 

I’m in a malaise. It happens. Still not online much as you may well have noticed. I’m feeling like profound thoughts are in the near future–but certainly have none now…

 

M and I are planning what we are going to do for Advent.

As Stolen from Anastasia

First 10 on the Morning Random Playlist:

Atmosphere (Joy Division)
Heart and Soul (Joy Division)
Wearing and Tearing (Zeppelin)
Splintered in Her Head (The Cure)
Stairway to Heaven (Zeppelin)
Cold (The Cure)
Love (Anonymous 4/Hildegard von Bingen)
Wake up (Rage Against the Machine)
I’M Looking Forward to It (NIN)
This is a Lie (The Cure)

Tonight we leave on the road trip to DC. Following Fr. Director’s advice, my
main goal is just to mingle and meet people, especially those of my own age
and situation–because they’ll be my colleagues in the coming decades…

So–I’ll be having an Anglican-Politics-Free weekend on what may turn out to
be an eventful couple of days.

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Road Trip

The big American Academy of Religion/Society of Biblical Literature meeting
happens this weekend in Washington. We’re going…all of us. It’ll be an
adventure.

Anybody else going?

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Dissertation Distraction Project N+1

Here’s another one of those cool projects in the back of my head that I’ll
probably never get around too… As I’ve mentioned before, my main problem
with the common theology of the Anglican Missal and Breviary is that it is
fundamentally Scholastic. I’ve said before and I’ll say again that I believe
one of the major directions that the English Reformers took was to
explicitly reject Scholastic theology but to retain a non-Scholastic, more
monastic flavored catholicism.

So here’s my idea: a book designed not as a replacement but as a supplement
to the Offices of the BCP that would offer suggestions on the ordines and
content of the Offices, primarily drawn from pre-Scholastic English monastic
sources. Thus, it would include recommendations for Office Hymns, a modified
kalendar, the various little offices (Dead, Holy Cross, BVM), and other
assorted stuff. Again, the intent would not be replacement but
supplementation, to help people see their offices in a new way and think
about what it means to be part of catholic tradition.

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American Politics

I love all the wrangling and discussion now that the Democrats have control over Congress. Especially speculation about all the new directions we can go in. It’s very amusing.

Nobody’s calling for the government control of main utilities. Nobody’s calling for the dissolution of the corpoate structure. Nobody’s calling for the redistribution of the country along ethnic or religious lines. The Democrats and Republicans are only arguing about the redistributions of relatively small percentages around the national budget. The truth is an open secret: We have the best damn one-party political system in the world…