tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17309896.post113069603322831336..comments2024-03-18T09:28:08.708-04:00Comments on Maior autem his est caritas: Barbaric beheadingFr. Gaurav Shroff http://www.blogger.com/profile/04964314266441708310noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17309896.post-1131241095439208862005-11-05T20:38:00.000-05:002005-11-05T20:38:00.000-05:00Have to run. A Muslim friend just phoned and told ...Have to run. A Muslim friend just phoned and told me to turn on the ABC for BBC's "Hymns of Praise": the "real face of Christianity," say I, and the correct tunes for all those hymns -- more harvest, in fact! A Parsi friend-in-common of ours sent me a CD of the choir of San Francisco Episcopal Cathedral a while back: WHERE do our American friends get those unfamiliar hymn tunes! Some of them are assiniboinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03245478607944139417noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17309896.post-1131240589700916472005-11-05T20:29:00.000-05:002005-11-05T20:29:00.000-05:00The "true face of Islam"? Obviously the true face ...The "true face of Islam"? Obviously the true face of some Muslims, and none that I'd care to know, especially when they are wielding machetes. <BR/><BR/>But as you know better than I, and it seems invidious even to descend to saying it, Islam as a whole is as heterodox as Christianity. Tricky to make sympathetic noises about Muslims these days; one might find oneself inadvertently falling afoul assiniboinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03245478607944139417noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17309896.post-1131239519451230282005-11-05T20:11:00.000-05:002005-11-05T20:11:00.000-05:00Curious that we haven't heard any follow-up at all...Curious that we haven't heard any follow-up at all regarding the events in the South Moluccas; at the time I conferred with observant Muslim friends as to whether those forceably converted Christians were realistically expected to be very enthusiastic in their practice of Islam. (I have been to a Dutch Reformed church service in Ambon -- they lustily sang hymns in Bahasa Indonesia to extremely assiniboinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03245478607944139417noreply@blogger.com