Jitterbugging for Jesus

Yes, Jitterbuggers, you no longer have to wish you could be a cool Jitterbugging cat like yours truly because, our research assistant and sometimes contributor to your favorite blog and flaming old librul (Old School, Joan Baez Div.) L.K., who never rests in her quest to bring Jitterbuggers the best in Jitterbugging in Jesus joy, [...]

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The great author and mysterious recluse Mr. J.D. is dead. Here’s the story from the N.Y. Times on the author of the great American classic Catcher in the Rye: J. D. Salinger, Enigmatic Author, Dies at 91 Published: January 28, 2010 J. D. Salinger, who was thought at one time to be the most important [...]

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“The thought that life could be better is woven indelibly into our hearts and our brains.” —- Paul “Rhymin” Simon, “Everybody Loves the Sound of a Train in the Distance” “Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not [...]

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In the photos here: Mr Martin who wrote children’s books, and the reckless and irresponsible Pat Hardy of the Texas Board of Education, the board dominated by ignorant board members who continue to embarrass Texas and should be roundly denounced and voted off the board once and for all. Until then, if you agree that [...]

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Mother Root Art by Jan Richardson © 1998, from Jan’s book In Wisdom’s Path: Discovering the Sacred in Every Season (Cleveland: The Pilgrim Press, 2000) We’ve published a blurb or two before from the Rev. Jan Richardson’s blog “The Painted Prayerbook” and simply can’t say enough in praise of her gifts and talents as a [...]

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Our research assistant and sometimes contributor L.K. the contemplative mystic lover of God and flaming librul (Old School, Joan Baez Div.) sent along this funny article from the venerable Christian Century magazine with this note: “You know, my Methodist friends have been telling me for years that there is no doubt that I am really [...]

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How’s about some more Fred Astaire and him dancing this time, jitterbug people??? We saw him in still pictures with Rita Hayworth (be still, my heart) in that video we posted with the Andrews Sisters song yesterday, but to fully appreciate Mr. Astaire you have to watch him get his jitterbug dance legs going. Wow. [...]

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(From the Episcopal Church-related Dailyoffice.org) Lydia is mentioned in Acts 16:11-15,40. When Paul on his second missionary journey carried his preaching out of Asia and into Europe, he began at the city of Philippi in Macedonia (north of Greece). His first European convert was a woman named Lydia, a merchant who dealt in purple-dyed goods. [...]

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I found this an interesting article about Christians, and Wesleyan Christians in particular, who are warming up evermore to veggie-ism. I’m like one of the pastors mentioned in this UM News Service article who says she eats meat and is gonna eat meat the rest of her life so there. However, I’ve been on somewhat [...]

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That would be the late and the great monk and spiritual writer and abiding spirit who keeps us forever inspired in our own ministry Thomas Merton, of course. Grace, which is charity, contains in itself all virtues in a hidden and potential manner, like the leaves and the branches of the oak hidden in the [...]

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