My Blahg is running The Canadian Blog Awards again this year. I know that last year I said I would have nothing to do with them in 2005. That was after Robert was particularly nasty and threatening to a US blogger. Two things have made me decide to ease off on Robert a tad. I've been nominated in a new category this year - Best Religious Blog and I think it's good to have Canadian religious blogs recognized. There are seven blogs in that cateogory thus far and maybe you have never heard of them, and maybe this is a chance to find and recognize new talent and new efforts. There's quite a variety so far. A couple of Christian blogs including a Lutheran minister and one that looks like it might be quite left. There's also a cynic and I must add that I'm quite pleased to see him in this category.
My money's on Kathie Shaidle to win. She probably is the most well known of the bunch and she's certainly prolific.
The whole thing runs until December 11, and the best of good luck to all of the bloggers who will be nominated.
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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