Postcards from Palookaville

Del, Seems that the last few paras of my reflection on Beckwith are missing. No -- I don't announce my own conversion to Rome in them; but the article currently ends in mid air. Just can't get the staff these days. CT CT heading for Rome; too painful to contemplate. Sorry, sermon prep got the...

Del, Seems that the last few paras of my reflection on Beckwith are missing. No -- I don't announce my own conversion to Rome in them; but the article currently ends in mid air. Just can't get the staff these days. CT CT heading for Rome; too painful to contemplate. Sorry, sermon prep got the...

The paper on the ETS to which I allude in my Beckwith piece can be found on Ray's website at http://www.uu.edu/personal/rvannest/Professional/ets.htm

The paper on the ETS to which I allude in my Beckwith piece can be found on Ray's website at http://www.uu.edu/personal/rvannest/Professional/ets.htm

I'vve had some requests to give more info on what to read/where to go to start learning about the early church fathers. Below I have appended a basic resource guide. Hope it helps.

I'vve had some requests to give more info on what to read/where to go to start learning about the early church fathers. Below I have appended a basic resource guide. Hope it helps.

I have been really encouraged by the positive response to the postings about the importance of reading the early church fathers. Two further comments on this.

I have been really encouraged by the positive response to the postings about the importance of reading the early church fathers. Two further comments on this.

Still the emails come in on patristics. Look, I'm temporarily a pen-pushing bureaucrat, more interested in balance sheets and wielding power over subordinates like some petty Napoleon on speed than in doing something constructive and theological. But, for those interested in exploring the link...

Still the emails come in on patristics. Look, I'm temporarily a pen-pushing bureaucrat, more interested in balance sheets and wielding power over subordinates like some petty Napoleon on speed than in doing something constructive and theological. But, for those interested in exploring the link...