Welcome to the Friars Community
Hello and welcome to the Friars Community! We hope that you will find both stimulating conversation and good humor here. The owner has yet to see either but no one is asking him. Our purpose in producing this site and hosting other sites on thefriars.net server is simply to supply a means to start conversations. Conversations that we hope and pray will be continued in the real world. Blogs and forums tend to be cheap alternatives to real community. They lack facial expressions, warmth, laughter, song, beauty, embarrassment, and many other things that make getting together with friends such a joy. The last thing we want to do is supply an alternative to that. Far from it. We believe blogs and forums are good for four things; brute intellectual discourse, resource, mental stimulation, and giving Aunt Sally gossip material. If you spend your free time looking for hot Christian chicks on internet forums, read/write blogs that resemble soap operas, or have more "internet friends" than real friends, then we have one thing to say to you. GET A LIFE.
Christ has called us to unity and has promised that that unity will be the means by which the world will know Him and His mission. Despite all the divisions in our churches and heated fights both online and off, our hope and prayer is that through a meditative approach to debate, a passion for real world community, and a love for Christ's Church, we will once again find that robust ecumenicalism which leads to the growth of God's kingdom and the reconciliation of the world to Christ.
We unabashedly stole our name from those old Dominican and Franciscan Christians of the thirteenth century and therefore feel that we must give some sort of rash apology for this atrocity. In many ways the friars were not much different than monks. They ate basic foods and lived an ascetic life. The striking difference was that they did not hide away in monasteries. They lived with the common people. They begged for their food. But they made the whole world their monastery and thereby accomplished much more in terms of mission, cultural influence, and ultimately even scholarship than the monks. The most famous friar was Saint Thomas Aquinas to which all of Christianity and good philosophy is indebted. Because of this rich heritage and common goal to not separate out from the world but to go out into it to subvert and subdue it to Christ we have called ourselves by the name The Friars.
Let us know if you want to join our ranks. We'd be happy to link to your blog or even host your web site free of charge. But please, whoever you are, brew up some coffee and join the conversation. We've got a lot to talk about.
Go in peace to love and serve the Lord.
Christ has called us to unity and has promised that that unity will be the means by which the world will know Him and His mission. Despite all the divisions in our churches and heated fights both online and off, our hope and prayer is that through a meditative approach to debate, a passion for real world community, and a love for Christ's Church, we will once again find that robust ecumenicalism which leads to the growth of God's kingdom and the reconciliation of the world to Christ.
We unabashedly stole our name from those old Dominican and Franciscan Christians of the thirteenth century and therefore feel that we must give some sort of rash apology for this atrocity. In many ways the friars were not much different than monks. They ate basic foods and lived an ascetic life. The striking difference was that they did not hide away in monasteries. They lived with the common people. They begged for their food. But they made the whole world their monastery and thereby accomplished much more in terms of mission, cultural influence, and ultimately even scholarship than the monks. The most famous friar was Saint Thomas Aquinas to which all of Christianity and good philosophy is indebted. Because of this rich heritage and common goal to not separate out from the world but to go out into it to subvert and subdue it to Christ we have called ourselves by the name The Friars.
Let us know if you want to join our ranks. We'd be happy to link to your blog or even host your web site free of charge. But please, whoever you are, brew up some coffee and join the conversation. We've got a lot to talk about.
Go in peace to love and serve the Lord.