My blogroll has been expanding a lot recently and I have not said much about it but I want to point out three new additions because I think they are all fine blogs -
Sirius
Back of the North Wind (no relation)
Was Ever Thus
The Dawn Treader
All of them are thoughtful and Christian and Was Not Ever Thus is Canadian and Catholic. Dawn Treader is CS Lewis inspired, and Back of the North Wind is big on George MacDonald, a less well known member of Lewis' Inklings.
I am off to show some relatives from Germany around Vancouver again today. Actually, today we are off to Whistler and that's a ways off so I must be going.... !
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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