Philatelic Equity
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Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Clothing retailers send me junk mail
promoting the Spring Collection of fashion designs, so I can run out and
buy new clo...
How to Instantly Recognize a Stroke
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Every year in the United States alone, nearly a million people have a
stroke. Strokes can strike at any age, but the chances of suffering a
stroke increa...
Just a guess
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I can make you do anytheeng I want
If the donks are committed to jettisoning Joe Biden, tonight will be the
night to kick off that effort. I am guessing ...
Beauty Break: Creation’s Splendor
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Natural beauty that is. There are few places more pleasant in winter than
south South Florida, which is why it’s a favorite destination for my
husband and ...
Good Dirt
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GOD DIDN’T SAVE US TO JUST GO TO CHURCH, sit in a pew, listen, and leave.
Many professing Christians don’t even do that. He expects us to be good
dirt, p...
I Predict 2022
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This is a bit late, but here goes: 1. I will fish at least once every
month, including in some weather conditions that will cause some people to
think I am...
A 2020 Covid19 Fairytale Wedding
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On February 15, 2020, Josiah Murray proposed to Hannah Perry inside a sweet
outbuilding in West Concord, Minnesota. Josiah hoped that Hannah would join
him...
A Circle Unbroken
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by the Night Writer (Originally written, September, 2019.) All my life,
there has been music playing. And growing up, that meant country music, so
I starte...
The Babylonian Trick
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The estimable Hans Fiene, the pastor behind Lutheran Satire, puts a name to
a particular and time-honored technique for violating religious liberty.
He ca...
Personal and lectionary
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I have been trying to move this place around, and things have got messy. At
present I’m restoring the backup Continue Reading
The Master of the Moment
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The F.B.I.'s reputation lies in tatters.
The press lies, and shrieks, and clatters.
And Trump just rides along and grins,
Revealing all our betters' sins.
No more dreams about dung
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J.I. Packer once asked, ‘What normal person spends his time nostalgically
dreaming of dung?’ One who doesn’t understand Philippians 3.7–10: But
whatever ga...
8 years ago
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Now this is different
A pop-up screen showed me this new book from Zondervan; The Dude Abides, the Gospel According to the Coen Brothers. I guess that says something about our lives when a most powerful cultural connection to the Good News is a documentary like "Fargo," but I hesitate to speculate on what that message might be.
I'm a big Coen bros. fan. I think they might be in that category of people who Jesus addressed: "You are not far from the Kingdom." This book's authoress is an NPR religion correspondent, writes for a big Chicago paper, and has carved her niche making Evangelicals sound "interesting" to liberals.
You know what I mean. The kind of "interesting" that NPR is so conspicuously self-proud of.
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I'm a big Coen bros. fan. I think they might be in that category of people who Jesus addressed: "You are not far from the Kingdom." This book's authoress is an NPR religion correspondent, writes for a big Chicago paper, and has carved her niche making Evangelicals sound "interesting" to liberals.
You know what I mean. The kind of "interesting" that NPR is so conspicuously self-proud of.
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