Posting Dates Correspond to Event Dates

Dear Year D Readers:


For your ease of use, I am in the practice of "bumping" the posting dates for all worship events from week to week so as to make them correspond with the actual upcoming events. Thus, the front or home page of this site will normally be the next upcoming liturgical event, Sunday or feast day. (Other posts are then shuffled in so that the latest appear near the top of the stack.)


In addition to searching the archives by month, you can also search the site using the search box at right, or by way of the RSS button in the URL address bar of your browser.


Blessings and peace in Christ,


TMS

UPDATE (October 5, 2012): You may have noticed the system of dating described above no longer applies, since Google/Blogger has eliminated the possibility of posting things ahead of time. One can schedule their appearance at a specific time, but one cannot show the actual publication date of a post ahead of the actual tick of the clock in real time. Darn. As a result of this change, I'm now trying to post the next coming event with a few days lead time (i.e., bump it up to the top of the stack) so that it will be most useful and you won't have to search deep in the archives. But the date as such will not be the forthcoming Sunday. Sorry about that. 

Meet the new Director of Theology, Worship, and Education

As a colleague of Chip Hardwick from our days in the doctoral program at Princeton Seminary, I take this as decidely good news. 

I don't do a lot of football posts, but this is pretty cool ...

This story is a month old now, but the hearts of many Iowans, Dubuquers, and University of Dubuque students, parents, alums, faculty, staff, trustees, etc., ... are still bursting with pride at this young man's accomplishments. Please note the phrase: "all divisions." Besides breaking this twelve-year-old record, Michael Zweifel is also a 2011 recipient of one of sixteen National Football Foundation (NFF) & College Hall of Fame's National Scholar-Athlete Awards, with a 3.9 GPA. Congratulations, Michael!

Solway's essay on "The Death of the Individual"

David Solway's latest post is well worth reading in its entirety, and not just for this memorable line:


"when it comes to the cynics, there’s no cure like a sinecure."


I confess, as I read this article sympathetically my impatience was nevertheless such that I had to scroll down to see when and if he would refer to Kierkegaard, and sure enough, found the reference I was anticipating at the very end, a veritable coup de grace.


I could not help but notice, however, that for Solway, Kierkegaard remains a "Danish philosopher." The question I have for Solway and for his readers, as well as readers of Hayek (whom he quotes with approval) is this: Why must the positive view of the individual expressed here continually drive those concerned for individual freedom and potential to the atheist Ayn Rand, or to Kierkegaard as individualistic philosopher (an unjust caricature if there ever was one), rather than to Kierkegaard the exegete of Christian scripture, the author of Christian Discourses, whose "philosophy" was tested and inspired by the New Testament at every point? For it sure seems to me that if a properly formed response to the barbarian collectivism of the left is to be offered, conservatism will have to do better than a merely secular individualism. Perhaps the coming bicentennial (2013) may yet afford an honest reappraisal of Kierkegaard's vocation and inspiration, but I am not optimistic, no more so than when a great thinker who calls for a radical return to founding principles can see no further than The Federalist Papers, or at most the rise of the individual in the West, i.e., when such a thinker fails to hear the Word Incarnate assuring him that the heavenly Father has accounted for every hair on his individual head. 


This critical question aside, let there be no doubt that there are few writers working today as insightful and articulate as Solway.

Bureaucratic regulation puts the squeeze on soup kitchen in Morristown, NJ

Peter Robinson is ticked:

"At a time of high unemployment, in other words, the bureaucrats have chosen to make it more expensive and more difficult for ordinary Americans to help their citizens in need. And the liberals wonder what the Tea Party is so angry about."

You would think, however, this is a subject on which Christians of every stripe, liberal, conservative, progressive, and evangelical could agree. No?

The Outlook on Year D

Meanwhile, over at the Presbyterian Outlook ...

YEAR D: Scriptural & Nutritional Supplements for the Body of Christ A Presbyterian Outlook 90-minute Webinar Follow the link above for more info.  And a big thanks (er, "hat tip") to Jack Haberer for the nice write-up in the October 31, 2011 issue — Reformation Day! — as well as thanks in advance to Jana Blazek for help with the upcoming webinar.

Here's my article at the Outlook

Here's my article over at the Outlook website, but I have to say, all the pretty pictures in the print version were really nice!

And here is editor Jack Haberer's introductory piece.

Here's hoping you can join the webinar on Tuesday, November 8. I'll have a few survey questions at the end, so you can offer a bit of constructive feedback for future directions.

The Lord be with you! - TMS

Yes, but there is still life in the Word, and faith remains a matter of spiritual birth by the will of God!

Over at Drudge, a preview of the ever-provocative Mr. Buchanan's new book, which raises the demographic alarm in the spirit of the ever-hilarious and ever-depressing Mark Steyn, and which contains this gloomy quote:

"If [Christopher] Dawson is correct, the drive to de-Christianize America, to purge Christianity from the public square, public schools and public life, will prove culturally and socially suicidal for the nation. ... 'The last consequence of a dying Christianity is a dying people. Not one post-Christian nation has a birth rate sufficient to keep it alive....The death of European Christianity means the disappearance of the European tribe, a prospect visible in the demographic statistics of every Western nation.'"

On a brighter and more hopeful note, Year D: A Quadrennial Supplement to the Revised Common Lectionary, is due out next year (2012), on Cascade Books.