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Looking for a gift this Christmas? Why not consider our 2009 Christmas CD set, The Incarnation of Christ: A Christmas Celebration?
This six-CD set contains some of our favorite conference recordings, specifically themed for Christmas. The perfect gift for a [...]

Veni, Veni, et Vici

Happy Hat Tip to Sacramental Living’s blog for this link (may we all be filled with this beauty):

A Response to Kitschmas

Winston Elliott offers counsel on how to transcend the Kitschmas in this brief and helpful blog post:
The Christocentric Life – Beauty 
In this season when the commercial nature of the Christmas season often confronts us with schlock and parodies of real beauty we can focus on the love of Christ as it is expressed in true beauty
Winston Elliott

Christmas recordings, and more!

Did you see our Christmas CD set is on sale!? 6 CD’s on the incarnation, each drawn from our eight years of conferences. If you want to see how very practical a bit of theology can be (the incarnation), listen to these talks.
Also, you can get a 20% discount on our conference CD sets or [...]

What is Order?

Order is the application of intelligence and will to raw materials. Being decision and commitment, order accepts reality and mortality. In its purest sense, order is the crucifixion of the self with its uncontrolled appetites and desires.
Order is spiritual.

Christmas is about suffering

When St. Paul was nearing the end of his earthly pilgrimage and sat in a Roman prison awaiting word on his fate, he wrote one last letter to a young man whom he had mentored and given authority over the church in Ephesus.
The mother of our Lord, Mary, had only recently ended her own earthly [...]

A Serious Question About Celebrating Christmas

A few days ago I mildly criticized kitschmas. One of the points I made was that kitsch doesn’t measure up to Camp because Camp tries to be serious while kitsch doesn’t even bother.
Thus, it seems, Camp can give us a strange sort of just pleasure in that we can get the point even while the producer of [...]

Too Big To Fail

The phrase has been bandied about for a few years now, and I’m trying to think of one more self-serving. Maybe, “Give me that.”
But I wonder how deeply it penetrates the American mentality. Is it how we feel about our war efforts? Our own economy? Our invincible country? After all, the Chinese need to rescue [...]

10 Thanks I’m thingful For

10. That last drink
9. Books that empower my faculties of perception to see the truth
8. Friends like the apprentices and the graduates of the apprenticeship, the CiRCE board, and organizations and schools that work with CiRCE, which is where my purpose in Christ is realized.
7. People who have supported the CiRCE Institute through prayer, purchases, [...]

Game day

for the record: I expect a very low scoring game between the Pack and the 49er’s so if you are a fantasy footballer I’d go defense on this game.
SF might win and everybody will call for McCarthy’s head, but SF is better under Singleterry than they’ve been recognized for so far.
This isn’t their year, but [...]