Blog Day Off

Sorry, folks, but I need a blog day off.

Have fun with the recent posts and archives!

Author: Jimmy Akin

Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."

24 thoughts on “Blog Day Off”

  1. Have a relaxing day! I was just thinking last night that we haven’t seen Michelle Arnold around here much lately.

  2. What is this?! Some sort of cruel joke?! I’ll refresh my browser every 5 minutes just in case. 😉

  5. But… if you posted that you need a day OFF, then you didn’t really HAVE a day OFF. It’s all so confusing. Does that mean you’re taking Friday, OFF? Oh the humanity!

  6. I really doubt that Jimmy would be taking time off from the blog in order to answer James White.
    I expect he just has some pressing business.

  7. He’s probably in his red truck, driving to another state, taking pictures with one of his boots in the shot somewhere. And a sci-fi/horror/fantasy reference is probably involved somehow with the trip.

  9. Are you celebrating Corpus Christi today? We are here in the UK. Catholic Answers staff always have a day off on holy days, so perhaps Jimmy out somewhere enjoying himself.

  11. Hey, James White says “I have some traveling to do over the next few days.” And Jimmy’s gone too.
    Hmmm….
    Apologist fight!

  12. *gasp* JOHN! watch your mouth!
    btw,how’s that ‘refresh every 5 minutes’ working for you?

  13. I checked out White’s latest post, and could not find any way of posting a comment there. Does anyone else happen to know if it is possible to do so? If not, cluck cluck cluck cluck . . . to him. He comments on Jimmy’s commenters in his posts, but doesn’t allow comments on his own site? BTW, that’s one thing I admire about Jimmy’s blog: you don’t have to go through a cumbersome and intrusive (or any for that matter) registration process to post a comment.

  14. Monica,
    I’m just about to give up on these 5 minute refreshes and get some relief for my carpal tunnel. Where is this Jimmy Akin anyway, West Coast or East Coast? Did he mean a 24-hr day off? I clicked on the “About” link and he apparently has no interests and no biography. Why would a person with no interests or biography need a day off?!
    Guess I’ll go practice my Akin twang, like “Dudn’t”. Just kidding if you’re reading this Jimmy, it dudn’t mean I don’t respectcha (Just practicing).

  15. Mark, James White is notorious for not allowing comments on this blog.
    I read White’s riposte also. Hmmm . . . Frankly, I think it’s a good thing he doesn’t allow comments. Charity prevents me from saying more.

  16. John, Jimmy is West Coast – San Diego area. A ‘day’ out here is approximately 24 hours, unless you’re a contracter in which case it varies from 6 hours to 60. Jimmy spreads his ‘interests’ out throughout the catagories. fr’instance, you’ll find his square dancing interest under the heading…well, you’ll just have to search yourself between refreshing.

  18. “No – if I were him, I’d want a day off before replying to White’s latest post:”
    My blood pressure must have shot up while reading that article. If I were Jimmy, I would avoid reading that trash just for my own health.

  19. Wonder if it has anything to do with Secret Project #4….
    Actually, I did a significant amount of work on Secret Project #4 today, but that wasn’t the reason I needed a blog day off.
    Since I do my blogging in the evening and schedule it to go up the next morning, what a blog day off means is that I have something going on in the evening that prevents me from blogging.

  22. Mr Akin, whilst I enjoy your blog, can I make a request?
    PLEASE don’t engage with Dr. James White on the level of assertions of ‘ad hominem’, it just detracts from the substantial debate you were having, and it’s SO boring!
    “He’s mean!” “No I’m not!” “Yes you are!” etc…
    Oh for goodness sake, who cares? Why should it matter how he says what he says? It’s what he says that’s interesting, so why not just deal with that? The readers know bull when they see it – let the audience decide. In the meantime, just point out theerrors in White’s theology and move on?
    Where am I going wrong here?
    Grace and Peace be with you,
    The Cavalier

  23. Unless I’m mistaken, Mr. Akin’s response to White was given as it was because a very large portion of White’s post attacked Mr. Akin’s credibility, as well as the credibility of many other Catholic apologists, and Mr. Akin’s reply on matters of fact has no merit if his credibility is rubbish, and so he wrote the response as he did. The necessity for this may be made more clear by reading this quote from Mr. Sungenis:
    Psychologically, there is no better way to prep your audience than by telling them that your opponent is not interested in truth but merely desires to use psychology to manipulate them. Perhaps what is really going on here is, as they call it in psychology, “projection,” that is, accusing someone else of the very thing one is doing. A study of Dr. White’s rebuttals shows that he often manipulates his audience by first attacking the credibility and integrity of his opponents, prior to answering the opponent’s assertions. – http://www.catholicintl.com/epologetics/dialogs/marysaints/bodily-assumption.htm
    I think Mr. Akin also attempted to extend an Olive Branch to Mr. White by suggesting ways he could improve his relationship with Catholic apologists and have more open interaction. I found his latest reply and his call to Mr. White’s program to be especially charitable, because he actually tried to help Mr. White’s credibility by suggesting-without-suggesting that he remove the invective from his posts which turn so many people off to him.

  24. Jimmy,
    In today’s Mass, the priest consecrated the bread, did the elevation and then made a mistake. Instead of the chalice, he held in his hand the Eucharist he just had consecrated (I’m not sure if he had put it on the paten after the elevation and then taken it back); he held it during the rest of the words of institution. Only at the point when he was supposed to do the elevation with the chalice, he noticed that the chalice was still on the altar. Then he put the Eucharist on the paten, took the chalice and did the elevation. The bell was rung.
    My question is, did a valid consecration of the wine take place or not?
    Many thanks and sorry if this is not the right place for this question.

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