So I’m doing my rounds in the ER waiting room today–which is wall to wall with people waiting to be seen by the triage nurse, as usual during these times of high flu tide. I mean, it’s starting to feel like every child in this large Metro County is running a fever, and moms and [...]
Archive for September, 2009
Comic relief on hospital duty (Adventures in Chaplaincy Div.)
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Working with Soil, Attending to Soul (Books we Love Dept.)
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Watering In the heat of late summer and early fall the garden needs so much water. In the heat of life the inner thirst grows. The more we put out, the more we need to be filled with living water. On our own we can do very little, and that not for long. There is [...]
The girl with kaleidoscope eyes, R.I.P
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I suppose it’s a measure of what a John Lennon freak I am that this story made me really sad, and I was sad when I posted a few months ago about Lucy’s illness. It’s also a measure of John Lennon’s genius that his inventive music and poetic lyrics had, and continues to have, such [...]
But the wine had an oaky-doaky bouquet that was irresistible!
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From the Metro News, United Kingdom: Burglar falls asleep on the job By METRO NEWS REPORTER – Tuesday, September 29, 2009 A would-be burglar failed to finish his crime after he broke into a house, drank a bottle of wine and fell asleep on a sofa. The man stuffed items into a pillow case before [...]
A personal message to Michael Moore (In a Nutshell: Go away)
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Michael, Michael, Michael, I never thought I’d see the day when Michael Moore would become a parody of Michael Moore. I haven’t seen your movie in which you obviously sustain your argument that capitalism, in and of itself, is the most evil institution since Satan and that capitalists are all members in good standing of [...]
It’s Banned Books Week (So let’s celebrate not!)
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“Unplugging” for Yom Kippur in high-tech Israel
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Very interesting stuff on the religious holiday and including some contemporary economics and history in Israel: The Body Politic Electric It’s becoming increasingly difficult for Israel to unplug for Yom Kippur. By Michael Weiss Updated Friday Yom Kippur is devoted to atonement and forgiveness—or “conscience consciousness-raising,” as I once heard a rabbi still recovering from [...]
William Safire, take your peace and rest in it
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I’ve been out of pocket a good bit this week and did not know that William Safire died. He was a wonderful old ink-stained wretch, and longtime jitterbuggers know the place in my heart for old ink-stained newspaper dogs. And he was a bulldog, a top-notch reporter as well as an incredible wordsmith, and a [...]
The question that sparked a firestorm: Is God Dead?
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From the New York Times obituaries: John T. Elson, Editor Who Asked ‘Is God Dead?’ at Time, Dies at 78 September 17, 2009 All journalists want to write a story that makes a big splash. John T. Elson, the religion editor at Time magazine, was no exception. But in 1966 he got more than he [...]
“Joining Jesus in what he’s up to in the world”
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From “The Jesus Manifesto” of Len Sweet and Frank Viola: “In a world which sings, “Oh, who is this Jesus?” and a church which sings, “Oh, let’s all be like Jesus,” who will sing with lungs of leather, “Oh, how we love Jesus!” “If Jesus could rise from the dead, we can at least rise [...]
