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Archive for December, 2009
Your Saturday Night Special:Dave Matthews Band X 2 (Devil’s Music Div.)
Posted in Uncategorized on December 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“The Simpsons,” good—-The Pill, still not good (News from the Church of Rome)
Posted in Uncategorized on December 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Remember those early years of “The Simpsons” when they shook up viewers around the world with their provocative and often irreverent comedy? At some point even the conservative evangelicals figured out that there was a lot of theology to be milked out of the show. You can now find books by conservative theologians on Simpson [...]
“O Holy Night” just once more (Celine Dion)
Posted in Uncategorized on December 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Witnessing to the Kingdom of God, not the nation-state that is America (The Church’s Mission Div.)
Posted in Uncategorized on December 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This is from theologian Rodney Clapp after the publication of his 1999 book A Peculiar People: The Church as Culture in Post-modern Society. Ten years ago, he was interviewed by Jeff Bailey in the theology journal “Cutting Edge,” and while this excerpt from the interview is a bit dated, I was skimming through it recently [...]
Of miracles and hay and candles and kids
Posted in Uncategorized on December 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Noël by Anne Porter When snow is shaken From the balsam trees And they’re cut down And brought into our houses When clustered sparks Of many-colored fire Appear at night In ordinary windows We hear and sing The customary carols They bring us ragged miracles And hay and candles And flowering weeds of poetry That [...]
Where to find God (Maybe not where you think you’ll find God)
Posted in Uncategorized on December 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A remembrance from a retired UMC preacher with a capsule bio of him at the end: Stranger at the church door By Dr. Thomas Lane Butts This time of the year always reminds me of something that happened in the month of December not long after I came to be the pastor of the United [...]
For all my night owl friends of The Steely Dan Fan Club only (Pretzel Logic & more)
Posted in Uncategorized on December 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
And most of Steely Dan’s major fans (Merry Christmas, yaw) are night owls because Steely Dan’s all about after hours when the world gets real. A so outrageous Steely two-fer for you, my Steely friends. Merry Christmas & grace & peace and by the way, where DID you get those shoes.
Journey of the Magi (Poem about the 3 wise guys)
Posted in Uncategorized on December 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From the “Christmas Poetry We Love” files at the JitterbuggingforJesus.com world headquarters off LBJ Freeway in Dallas, Texas, we bring you a poem from T.S. Eliot and a commentary on it by Holly Ordway. You’ll find a capsule bio of her at the end of the great poet’s poem: “We all know the story of [...]
Stories we hope our big brother won’t tell this Christmas (But he probably will)
Posted in Uncategorized on December 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In which our brother Charles Dean “Charlie” McKay Jr. always says, after a few egg nogs, “Did I ever tell yaw I served with Elvis in Germany?” And after more egg nog the story becomes, “Did I ever tell yaw I was the best man at Elvis’s first wedding? We were Army buddies, you know.” [...]
Oh Beatles, deliver us from mushy Christmas music and let us into your weird and wonderful sights and sounds
Posted in Uncategorized on December 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Let’s just get weird with the Beatles and forget about Christmas a little while, OK? Here’s a couple vids in which the boys, as you will see, were still able to have way too much fun together, endearing us to them forever. (Speaking of weird, with this top video we learn that the walrus is [...]
