Christian Pipe Smokers

I think there is a time and place for darkness in worship (especially when using candles), but I hear what you are saying. I've attended some that not only shut off all the lights and spotlight the stage, but they also had fog machines, concert lighting, and a table full of earplugs (ironically plac...

Anyone ever hear of Father Carlos Martins? He's an exorcist who has joined a podcast called The Exorcist Files to share his stories regarding exorcism. I've listened to the first two episodes. It's sort of an audio docu-drama. The host and the exorcist tell the story with actors portraying bits of ...

Anyone ever hear of Father Carlos Martins? He's an exorcist who has joined a podcast called The Exorcist Files to share his stories regarding exorcism. I've listened to the first two episodes. It's sort of an audio docu-drama. The host and the exorcist tell the story with actors portraying bits of t...

I wonder now if The Heliand might be at the root of the bombastic warrior boasts of Martin Luther? It's highly speculated that Luther knew of and appreciated the Heliand (of course it wasn't called that in his day). Even the translator of the copy I have (a Jesuit!) believes some of the wording in ...

Contextualization is communicating biblical principles into cultural contexts via comparisons with distinctions. Failing to make the proper distinctions results in syncretism. This sounds closer to the latter. This sounds right, The Heliand was composed in the 900's. St. Augustine of Canterbury arr...

jruegg wrote: ↑02 Mar 2023, 15:38 I believe I read somewhere that The Saxon Gospel has been revised and is now called The Norman Gospel by Hastings Publishing.

It was unharolded

Until they show me the debris of the objects shot down after the Spy Balloon, I'm calling shenanigans.

I don't think they shot anything down.

Last night multiple Blackhawk helicopters flew overhead. It was a fairly dark night and they're, you know, black so it was difficult to see them other than a dim red taillight. I counted at least 5 by the time I ran outside to see. Sometimes those huge Chinooks fly over head and I don't know if it'...

True story: Pipeson was reading Chaucer's Canterbury Tales last November. ("Hey, Dad... I have to agree with Chaucer: Beowulf is really old.") He discovered, in the Introduction, that Chaucer had made his own translation of Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy into Middle English. Thus Pip...

Is anyone familiar with The Heliand? It's a 9th century Old Saxon epic poem, twice as long as Beowulf , that is essentially a reimagination of the gospel in a Germanic context. It's purpose was not for official church reading, but more likely to be read in the monasteries or the mead-halls, when the...