tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36295725.post5781358340659190808..comments2023-12-25T14:38:40.017-05:00Comments on Holy Ordinary: The Sacraments of Everyday Life: Here They Go Again -- and So Here I Go AgainBrent Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01351957537347562545noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36295725.post-77309107186459264362009-01-20T20:47:00.000-05:002009-01-20T20:47:00.000-05:00Indeed. I join you and Marshall in that prayer. ...Indeed. I join you and Marshall in that prayer. I especially like Tom's quote and think it goes along well with my feeling that any Friends' pastor ought to have as a primary objective to teach himself out of a job.<BR/>In His Love,<BR/>Nate SwiftAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36295725.post-18268244521425224722009-01-20T11:54:00.000-05:002009-01-20T11:54:00.000-05:00Good post. I definitely joined you in prayer as I...Good post. I definitely joined you in prayer as I read your final sentence.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36295725.post-43409382268253575092009-01-19T17:00:00.000-05:002009-01-19T17:00:00.000-05:00I am reminded of what I read in a history of Kansa...I am reminded of what I read in a history of Kansas YM when the "Yearly Meeting" indicated that in allowing paid pastors it was "easier to give them what they wanted than to teach them to be Friends."Tom Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12194918323559385371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36295725.post-46481833807049411152009-01-19T12:55:00.000-05:002009-01-19T12:55:00.000-05:00And, before someone begins quoting the Bible at me...And, before someone begins quoting the Bible at me in favor of orthodoxy -- "The Bible is the deposit of a long series of controversies between rival views of religion. The sobering thing is that in nearly every case the people shown by the Bible to be wrong had every reason to think they were in the right, and like us they did so. Complacent orthodoxy is the recurrent villain in the story from first to last and the hero is the challenger, like Job, the prophets, Jesus and Paul." Henry J CadburyBrent Billhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01351957537347562545noreply@blogger.com