Fr. Christian Mathis | February 25, 2010
It has taken some time to get back to the second half of the Thomas Howard’s Evangelical Is Not Enough. The posts on the first half of the book raised some good discussion here and it is my hope that the second half will be no different.
Chapter Six of the book begins to address prayer [...]
Fr. Christian Mathis | February 11, 2010
Perhaps one of the most disturbing parts of Roman Catholicism and the Orthodox Church for Evangelicals is our stubborn insistence upon giving honor to Christ’s mother, Mary. Thomas Howard’s discussion of the subject brings us back around to the importance that Christianity places on the physical. He notes that in the Old Testament we see [...]
Fr. Christian Mathis | February 9, 2010
Continuing with reflections on the book, Evangelical Is Not Enough, by Thomas Howard I would like to turn to the chapter entitled, “Prayer, Random or Disciplined?” As I continue reading and reflecting upon this book, I come to see more and more the one thing that is tying each subject together and that is the [...]
Fr. Christian Mathis | February 1, 2010
This past Friday I mentioned here that perhaps my favorite book of all time is For the Life of the World, by Fr. Alexander Schmemann. It is a book about the sacraments, but even more so about the implications of having the sacramental world view that both Catholic and Orthodox Christians share in common. Though [...]
Fr. Christian Mathis | January 27, 2010
Elizabeth Esther has come up with the brilliant idea of hosting a book discussion at her blog on Evangelical Is Not Enough by Thomas Howard. Elizabeth is a former Evangelical Christian who eventually moved to a more liturgical tradition. I am looking forward to the continued discussion at her blog, but I also thought it [...]
Fr. Christian Mathis | January 22, 2010
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This has been the song stuck in my head all week long. It started with a search for Jimbo Whaley’s cover of a Journey song that I heard him perform a few months back. What I had forgotten [...]
Fr. Christian Mathis | December 29, 2009
Yesterday’s feast of the Holy Innocents still has me reflecting upon those parents who have lost a child, either through accidents, sickness or miscarriage. This past year I happened upon a website called, Naming the Child. I learned of it from Molly Sabourin in a letter to her daughter Lucy she composed and shared through [...]
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