I see trees of green, red roses too, I see them bloom, for me and you. And I think to myself… what a wonderful world. I see skies of blue, and clouds of white, The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night. And I think to myself… what a wonderful world. The colors of the [...]
Archive for August, 2009
Happy Friday from jitterbuggingforjesus.com & Satchmo
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged beauty, Music on August 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“In him there is no darkness at all”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Theology on August 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This is the message that we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light and in him there is no darkness at all. If we say we have fellowship with him while we are walking in darkness, we lie and do not do what is true, but if we walk in [...]
Your night owl special (Weird Theatre Div.)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Uncategorized on August 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It starts out all cute with the sweet little girl’s mugging— and descends into weird. Clever and fun and creative. But kinda weird. Therefore–naturally–we like it.
Rev. Billy — still wall-eyed crazy after all these years
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Theology on August 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Yes, Rev. Billy is still out there with his anti-shopping, anti-consumerism, anti-rich people crusades. Here he storms a shopping mall in England with the Life After Shopping Gospel Choir and gets kicked out. As my old-fashioned grandma Nannie used to say, “The man gives me the jim-jams.” I think that translated to something like, “the [...]
And now for something completely different (Pretty, Pretty, Pretty, Pretty Pictures Div.)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged beauty on August 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From the portfolio of photographer Rarindra Prakarsa, Indonesia.
News from the Far Side (Political Genius Div.)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged politics or governing on August 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
No, this is not a satire; it’s a straight-up news item from the Topeka, Kan. newspaper: U.S. Rep. Lynn Jenkins offered encouragement to conservatives at a town hall forum that the Republican Party would embrace a “great white hope” capable of thwarting the political agenda endorsed by Democrats who control Congress and President Barack Obama. [...]
Life in the Raw– A Reflection on those “Psalms of Darkness”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Books, Faith & Church, Theology on August 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Been reading a lot from the Psalms lately and the Psalter is full of those “lament” or protest or complain Psalms–those dark ones in which the Psalmist is stuck in some really horrible situation and complains to God about it. (See Psalm 22, for example, which Jesus utters from the cross, or Ps 137–which is [...]
We got male-man blog love for: The late, great Marty Robbins! (Very Cool Guys Div.)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Music on August 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
He was one smooth singing, mighty entertaining singer and a true original. Plus, my Mama liked him a lot. Plus, he did a lot of music that one could jitterbug to. He had Soul (Western Soul Div.) and like me and the Buckinghams, that great Chicago band from the sixites always say, “Baby . . [...]
Kennedy got it right, the Right got it wrong
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged politics or governing, war & peace on August 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The record shows that Kennedy, whatever else you might think of him, got the whole Iraq thing right, unlike the Right: “The Bush Administration says America can fight a war in Iraq without undermining our most pressing national security priority — the war against Al Qaeda. But I believe it is inevitable that a war [...]
“Believe in as much of God as you can”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Faith & Church, Theology on August 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878-1969), American preacher, was a popular exponent of liberal Protestantism and a key figure in the struggle to relate the Christian community to its contemporary technological and urbanized culture. Harry Emerson Fosdick was born in Buffalo, N.Y., on May 24, 1878, the son of a high school teacher. Reared to traditional religious [...]
