Jeremy Thompson

Tag: Church

  • “Through my most grievious fault”

    Since the most recent changes to the Roman Missal almost every Sunday we’ve been saying: through my fault, through my fault, through my most grievous fault; … I’ve noticed that in our congregation almost everyone says “grievious” as opposed to “grievous.” I knew that sometimes speakers insert an “-i-” into words like “grievous” and “mischievous.”…

  • Python to save your soul

    In a previous post, I showed you how Python can let you print important things over and over again. Here I’m posting a video that just might save your soul with the code for the quiz at the bottom of the post: from random import randint import sys questions = {1 : [“Joel is a…

  • Audio from talk on Old Testament violence at Holy Ghost

    For those who were interested, below is a link to the audio from my talk on violence in the Old Testament this past Monday at Holy Ghost. It’s very echo-y since it was in the parish hall and the train passed twice, but you should be able to hear it okay. Old Testament Violence (right-click/ctrl-click…

  • Lenten Reflections 2010

    Last night I started a series of Lenten Reflections in my church parish.  These are intended for lay people in my parish, so hopefully they are free from academic jargon.  If you are in a tradition that celebrates Lent, or even if you are not, you might want to give them a listen.  There will…