We leaped over Spring this week and landed smack-dab in the middle of July’s heat. As I began this newsletter — on Wednesday — it is mid 80s and sultry. Who knew? Saw our first Cedar Waxwings (image source) this week: What we do know is that we’ve got some fun meanderings for you:
The reporting in that NPR story, while not exactly false, is very misleading. The people being discussed are an extremely small number in an extremely small Orthodox jurisdiction. Every group has people on the fringe, and in this country there are probably more non-Orthodox admirers of Putin than there are are Orthodox of that bent. All the ROCOR people I know, on line and in real life - for that matter, all the Orthodox people I know - deplore what Putin has done. Orthodox teaching specifically calls out phyletism as sin. Makes me wonder what exactly NPR is up to.
Hi Scott, I know this isn’t germane to today’s blog, but I’m stuck in a muddle regarding the issue of Judas’ presence at the Last Supper when Jesus passed the bread and cup. What do you think? Thanks for your help!
Whether or not Judas had left the supper before Jesus passed the broken bread and the cup. I’m trying to clarify this point for the sake of a study of the Gospels to be offered to men in prison. My advice to the leader of the study (an outside volunteer) is to pass on the point and simply explain that Judas’ presence at that point of the supper is controversial and beyond the scope of the study.
John 13:26 Jesus answered, “It is the one to whom I will give this piece of bread when I have dipped it in the dish.” Then, dipping the piece of bread, he gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot.
The reporting in that NPR story, while not exactly false, is very misleading. The people being discussed are an extremely small number in an extremely small Orthodox jurisdiction. Every group has people on the fringe, and in this country there are probably more non-Orthodox admirers of Putin than there are are Orthodox of that bent. All the ROCOR people I know, on line and in real life - for that matter, all the Orthodox people I know - deplore what Putin has done. Orthodox teaching specifically calls out phyletism as sin. Makes me wonder what exactly NPR is up to.
Dana
Hi Scott, I know this isn’t germane to today’s blog, but I’m stuck in a muddle regarding the issue of Judas’ presence at the Last Supper when Jesus passed the bread and cup. What do you think? Thanks for your help!
JeffQ, what's the muddle that's muddling you?
Whether or not Judas had left the supper before Jesus passed the broken bread and the cup. I’m trying to clarify this point for the sake of a study of the Gospels to be offered to men in prison. My advice to the leader of the study (an outside volunteer) is to pass on the point and simply explain that Judas’ presence at that point of the supper is controversial and beyond the scope of the study.
John 13:26 Jesus answered, “It is the one to whom I will give this piece of bread when I have dipped it in the dish.” Then, dipping the piece of bread, he gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot.
Thanks, Scott.