This news story was posted yesterday on Yahoo News – “Sebastian D’Souza hears the gunfire at (shah-trapati shiv-a-ji)) Terminus from his office across the street at the Mumbai Mirror tabloid. He follows the sound through the sprawling station, slipping unseen through parked trains. When he first catches sight of the young men, he doesn’t realize…
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Lectionary Leanings – Keep Awake!
My lectionary leanings for the next month or so are actually going to come from sermon starters that I wrote for the United Methodist Publishing House’s “Circuit Rider” November 30Isaiah 64:1-9, Ps. 80:1-7, 17-19, I Corinthians 1:3-9, Mark 13:24-37 Isaiah thinks that we need a dramatic wake up call. “O that you would tear open…
Advent Conspiracy
My friend Matt posted over at his blog “The Truth As Best I Know It” about the supposed war on Christmas and the Advent Consipracy. I too, fail to lament the taking of Christmas out of stores of our courthouses… when Christianity becomes too confused with the civic religion, it suffers and gets bogged down…
the kitchen smells WONDERFUL!!!
My husband and I are making our first turkey EVER this week! We have always done the circuit of parent’s and grandparent’s houses, and while we are still doing most of those, his mom’s side is coming over to our place. And I am WAY excited. I started making a few things already… well, for…
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Spam Turns Serious and Hormel Turns Out More By ANDREW MARTINPublished: November 15, 2008The canned meat product has become the emblematic food for hard times as consumers look for ways to stretch their grocery budgets. Anybody have a spam story, or a favorite spam recipe?
consumption, part 2
I found this article in my NYTimes email this morning… Op-Ed ContributorLet’s Have Another Cup of CoffeeBy MICHAEL KINSLEYPublished: November 14, 2008American consumers, who have been steadily losing interest in buying things, would ideally now go on one last spending spree — and then start saving like mad. As I’m thinking about Christmas, I too…
Friday Five @ RevGalsBlogPals
Remembrance 1. Did your church have any special celebrations for All Saints/All Soul’s Day? We remembered the names of those had passed with a moment of silence for each and the lighting of candles. Our whole worship service however was geared towards a remembrance of the saints and talking about what it takes to become…
vindication and guilt
A former colleague of mine just got dissed in the UM Reporter. I’m not giving out any details beyond that. But I felt strangely vindicated. You see, while I appreciated this person’s ministry, there were parts of it that were very troublesome to me. It seemed like they were stretching the boundaries a little farther…