I’ve Moved!
November 20, 2008
So I’m sure that most people have noticed that the site has been offline for a few days. There’s a reason for that, which I will get to shortly. But first, let me just say this:
In fact, I am blogging at a new site I have just finished setting up: kennethhynek.net. A full explanation for the reasons behind the move can be found here
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That said, this is not the end of Time Immortal. My wife Grace has expressed interest in taking over blogging at this domain, and I am working to make sure that she gets set up here as soon as possible.
Also, my profound apologies for the modification to the site face; the move was not as seamless as I would have hoped, and many of the image files for this theme, and in the gallery, were corrupted during the course of their evacuation from my previous web host’s servers. Until such time as I have repaired them, I’ve put a clean-looking template in place of the previous one.
Update: for the purposes of further traffic shaping, new posts from kennethhynek.net will be excerpted below. Full articles can be read at the new blog.
Never thought of it that way before…
October 9, 2008
You know the parable of the dishonest steward in the Gospel according to St. Luke, in which the steward reduces the debts of his master’s debtors so that they will welcome the steward into their homes after he’s fired.
What if we interpret dismissal as death? Then the steward’s reduction of debt is an act of kindness intended to obtain prayers for his soul.
That would make a lot of sense out of a parable that, at first glance, appears to commend the obvious wrongdoing of the steward. Moreover, it would be another example of the way in which the Bible ultimately affirms the teachings of Catholicism; most of Protestantism doesn’t accept the validity of prayers for the deceased (I believe Martin Luther, especially, was dead set against them). And yet, there it is.
