:: St. Stephen's Musings ::

:: Thursday, April 15, 2004 ::

SCOBA, ID, TR, and DVD: Acronyms in a Thursday Musing

* Check out the new website of SCOBA. (The Standing Conference of the Canonical Orthodox Bishops in the Americas). Of particular interest is the recent document on Ecumenical Guidelines.

* At the Pascha picnic this past Sunday afternoon, someone asked me about the Orthodox "position" on ID (Intelligent Design). Here is an interesting essay on the convergence of Orthodox theology and ID.

* A nice selection of online essays and even online books (including Abbe Guettee's "The Papacy: Its Historic Origin and Primitive Relations") has been complied by T.R. Valentine.

* Huw is curious if any bloggers (Orthodox or otherwise) are interested in having a movie discussion group on our respective blogs later this summer:

"Go rent a DVD (or purchase, if you feel inclined) and then, after watching it - alone or with others - Blog about (and discuss) salvation in the movie. That's a wide topic - that's intentional. "Salvation" can be open to many meanings, and I would urge a writer to define salvation at some point in his post on a given film."

Memento, The Shawshank Redemption, and Magnolia are my suggestions.

:: Karl :: 7:55:00 AM [Link] ::