Saturday at Saint Paul's Ivy

Saturday we woke up to a threatening snow fall. While we ate breakfast there were pellets of snow hitting the windows. Before breakfast Rick had read the religion section of the newspaper and showed me an announcement of a lecture at St. Paul's Ivy entitled Emergent Christianity. The newspaper is filled now with stories of change in the Churches both Catholic and Protestant. I thought I would get some insight on to what is happening so I decided to go even though it was not originally on my agenda. It was a spontaneous happening.

The speaker was very old women but she had a young persona. I heard later Phyllis Tickle has been famous in the Episcopalian church for years she was very witty and engaging. The lecture was three and a half hours but we got a break.

The first half was really the history of Christianity. She said the first written accounts were people who knew Jesus than people who know the people who knew Jesus. the story is intertwined with the rise and fall of the Roman empire. After the Barbarians invade. The city of Rome becomes completely illiterate. She said the monks in the monasteries sneak the biblical writing out one book at a time.