St. Augustine's 3 Categories of Christian Worship

In St. Augustine's correspondence to Januarius (Letter 54) he lays out in three categories the things that guide Christian worship of our Lord. The first category is things directly found in scripture, the second is the apostolic tradition, and the third is adiaphora or things indifferent.

Here Be Dragons!

Cartographers from ancient days would often include the warning "here be dragons" in their maps. These warnings represented parts of the sea that were yet to be conquered; the parts of the sea that remained mysterious. If you were a ship's captain in the ancient days, this warning served to keep you from venturing too far into the deep unknown. You never knew what you might find. You might come across dragons.

Her-meneutics: A Brief Look at Women's Ordination

Much of the current discussion of women’s ordination stems from the idea that if a woman cannot do what a man can do, then she is somehow unequal to a man. If this train of thought continues, masculinism wins the day. Those who espouse this view want to conform both sexes to the standards of maleness — women are only equal to men in so far as they can do what a man can do.