Tim Blackmon on the English Language
English doesn't borrow from other languages. It follows them down dark alleys, knocks them over & goes thru their pockets for loose grammar
More than a tweet; less than a blog post
Fernando Ortega - "Give Me Jesus"
via vimeo.com
This music video was produced for the December 2007 Billy Graham Television Special in honor of Ruth Bell Graham.
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One more reason to quit smoking...
Malawi's Child Tobacco Laborers
Reports have surfaced that thousands of children in Malawi who work on tobacco plantations are poisoned by absorbing nicotine through their skin -- equivalent to smoking 50 cigarettes per day. Their small bodies are less able to metabolize the drug than adults, so the children suffer from nausea, vomiting, weakness, headaches, abdominal pain, and difficulty breathing. Poverty and hunger forces families to send their children to work on tobacco plantations, where they earn only 20 cents for a 12-hour day. Pray for the 80,000 children in southern African countries who work on tobacco plantations -- may economic opportunities be afforded to each family, so that children have the chance to go to school instead of working in unsafe conditions.
from the Office of Social Justice, Christian Reformed Church of North America
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Bounded-set, center-set, Jesus and organized religion from Leading Church.com
Those who want to cast Jesus strictly into the center-set side of things, however, have difficulty with other passages. Jesus selects 12 apostles as his official representatives. We know that the circle around him was larger because in Acts there are two candidates who qualify as replacements. We also know from the church tradition of others who were eye-witnesses and ear-witnesses to Jesus’ life whom Jesus did NOT select for his twelve. Jesus talks about the father deciding who would sit on his right and left hand side. Again, this is bounded-set. In the famous “sheep and goats” parable of Matthew 25 Jesus tells a very bounded-set story.
Paul's whole post is quite relevant to recent dialogue I've been having about the relationship between AA and Christianity.
Thanks,
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R. John Neuhaus on Defining Human Need
The Christian message throws our questions into question; it challenges not so much the way we meet our needs as the way we define our needs.
Neuhaus, Richard. Freedom for Ministry. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1979 (p. 128-129).
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Fascinating Juxtaposition
Reading Eduard Thurneysen's A Theology of Pastoral Care and the A.A. Big Book. A little bit mind bending: moral therapeutic deism and über transcendent neo-orthodoxy. Not necessarily in that order.
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Eduard Thurneysen on Pastoral Care
"No passage of Holy Scripture places the emphasis on man's sinful wretchedness as such or makes it the exclusive subject of presentation and discussion. Rather, all its affirmations, even those concerning sinful man, testify to forgiveness and forgiveness alone."
--A Theology of Pastoral Care (1962)
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Lyle Lovett - I Will Rise Up
I'd never heard of Lyle Lovett until today--when I stumbled on this on Molly Piper's blog.
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