Selected Reading, April 17, 2021

 

A few interesting things I found this week.

Christ

The Water-Providing, Stricken Rock
Why does Paul say that the rock Moses struck in Exodus 17:1-7 was Christ? How is the rock a type of Christ? Nicholas Batzig explains.

Northern

Dawson City By-Law Officer
He’s the animal control officer in Dawson City, Yukon, and he takes selfies with the dogs he picks up. The dogs, by the way, all seem to be enjoying themselves.

“Getting it on canvas”: Yukon artist paints to heal residential school memories 
Mary Caesar paints her childhood experiences in residential school: ““I get a lot of strong reactions, both from the native and white communities. Some residential school survivors, when they see my paintings, it brings up memories for them. It brings up feelings. And I understand because I know how they feel. Some non-native people just get shocked when they see my paintings. They get really emotional and I get emotional too.”

Fiction

So Brave, Young, and Handsome
This is so good.

It’s the third novel by Lief Enger that I’ve read, and probably the third one that I’ve recommended here. From the publisher’s blurb:

“… a rugged and nimble story about an aging train robber on a quest to reconcile the claims of love and judgment on his life, and the failed writer who goes with him.”

Do you need some good fiction to read? You might enjoy it as much as I am.

Theological Term of the Week: Ambrose of Milan

Ambrose of Milan
A “Catholic provincial governor who became bishop or Milan in 374.”1 He lived from 239-297.

• From 2000 Years of Christ’s Power by N. H. Needham:

… Ambrose attained to fame as a magnificant preacher, a resolute enemy of Arianism, and a pioneer hymn-writer… . Ambrose also popularised in Western worship the Eastern practice of singing hymns. By “hymns” I mean newly written songs of worship, as opposed to the Old Testament psalms and other songs or poetic passages of Scripture set to music (e.g. the Manificant of Luke 1:46-55). Ambrose wrote his own hymns to teach his congregation the orthodox doctrine of Christ during the Arian controversy.  

Learn more:

1. Got Questions: Who was Ambrose of Milan?
2. Theopedia: Ambrose of Milan
3. Christian History: Ambrose of Milan
4. Christian Classics Ethereal Library: Ambrose

Related terms:

• Apollinarius
• Athanasius
• Augustine of Hippo
• Basil of Caesarea
• Cappadocian fathers
• Columba
• Cyril of Alexandria
• Gregory of Nanzianzus
• Gregory of Nyssa
• Gregory the Great
• Hilary of Poitiers
• Irenaeus of Lyons
• Jerome
• John Chrysostom
• Justin Martyr
• Maximus the Confessor
• Monica
• Nestorius
• Origen
• Patrick
• Pelagius
• Sabellius
• Tertullian
• Venerable Bede, The

Filed under Christian History

1From 2000 Years of Christ’s Power by N. R. Needham.

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Sunday's Hymn: Lead Me to Calvary

King of my life, I crown Thee now,
Thine shall the glory be;
Lest I forget Thy thorn crowned brow,
Lead me to Calvary.

Refrain

Lest I forget Gethsemane,
Lest I forget Thine agony;
Lest I forget Thy love for me,
Lead me to Calvary.

Show me the tomb where Thou wast laid,
Tenderly mourned and wept;
Angels in robes of light arrayed
Guarded Thee whilst Thou slept.

Let me like Mary, through the gloom,
Come with a gift to Thee;
Show to me now the empty tomb,
Lead me to Calvary.

May I be willing, Lord, to bear
Daily my cross for Thee;
Even Thy cup of grief to share,
Thou hast borne all for me.

—Jen­nie E. Hus­sey

Other hymns of worship songs for this Sunday:

• As Some Small Rock Amidst the Waves at The Happy Wonderer