It's well past time I should have moved my blog to an on line blog service. I've been doing something like this for more than a few years (four or five) and have long wanted a simple, fast way of doing updates. If it's not simple, it very often doesn't get done. That goes some way toward explaining the ever decreasing number of updates my site has seen over the last year and a half.
It's my hope that creating this new home for my writings will allow me to recapture some of the fun that posting used to be. It is also my hope that interacting with the blogging and blog reading community will fuel my thoughts and keep me tethered to the earth.
My old home can still be viewed at Virtual Planet [link deleted], but I don't expect to add anything to that site if I can get this to work satisfactorily. And I'm pretty optimistic about that.
Ecce Homo I haven't done a quote from Pope Ratzinger's Introduction to Chistianty in a while and even though I have finished the book there are still one or two passages I want to share, including - perhaps even especially - this one. When I first began to look over what Christianity teaches, to look at the gospel story and to try penetrate why it has been so compelling to so many for so long, this was one of the things that leapt out at me. I was happy to see our Pope confirm it. Expanding on the Apostles Creed where it says "... suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried," Ratzinger writes: The fact that when the perfectly just man appeared he was crucified, delivered up by justice to death, tells us pitilessly who man is: Thou art such, man, that thou canst not bear the just man - that he who simply loves becomes a fool, a scourged criminal, an outcast. Thou art such because, unjust thyself, thou dost always need the injustice of the n...
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