All Saints – Beatitudes

Today is All Saints Day.

The Collect for the Day:
Almighty God,
you have knit together your elect
in one communion and fellowship 
in the mystical body of your Son Christ our Lord:
grant us grace so to follow your blessèd saints
in all virtuous and godly living
that we may come to those inexpressible joys
that you have prepared for those who truly [...]

The Book of Genesis Illustrated: The Word According to R Crumb

You’ll recall we looked at R Crumb’s rendition of Genesis here. Well, TIME  today has the article, Genesis: The Word According to R. Crumb.

Few Biblical scholars would have made R. Crumb — the counterculture cartoonist famous for creating Fritz the Cat — their no. 1 choice for reinterpreting the first book of the Pentateuch. And few among [...]

No Mr President

Writing Jews out of Jerusalem’s history

The title says it all…
The Guardian (UK),

The Temple Mount, or al-Haram al-Sharif to Muslims, must rank as one of the most sensitive religious sites in the world. The sporadic riots of the past month at the site are therefore particularly alarming, as such incidents have the potential to ignite much wider unrest.
For that reason, it [...]

Biblioblog – Top 50 October

This blog has come in at #10 at the Biblioblog Top 50 – October 2009.  

Thank you to you, the reader!
Congrats go to the seemingly unstoppable Dr Jim West… He has been #1 for as long as I have been blogging!