Yes, jitterbuggers, Tuesday afternoon comes around every . . . well, Tuesday afternoon. Which means you can count on jitterbuggingforjesus.com to get you over the afternoon hump at work with sweet music, which today is provided by the lovely and talented Patty Griffin of Austin, Texas, where we have now been permanently barred from several [...]
Archive for January, 2010
Your Regular Tuesday Afternoon Music Therapy Special (Because we Love You)
Posted in Uncategorized on January 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
It was 60 years ago today (On that chilly night in that small Texas town & a pack of wild dawgs howled at the moon)
Posted in Uncategorized on January 26, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Yes, your favorite blogger was born 60 years ago today on a cold and blustery Navasota, Texas, night when my mother Goldie McKay called Doctor Coleman and said, “Doctor, ain’t day nothin’ I can take — to relieve this belly ache?” And de Doctor say to my poor, pregnant mama, “Put some lime in a [...]
Go ahead, make Ed Rendell’s day and ours too (Political junkie news you can use, librul div.)
Posted in Uncategorized on January 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell has been this unapologetic librul’s favorite Democrat and librul for, oh, about a hunnerd years now. I’ve lost count of how many times this man has laid own political life and career and future on the line taking unpopular positions in his own home state–how many times he’s taken beatings in [...]
Finding God’s GRACE in our lack of POWER (Wisdom from Eberhard Arnold)
Posted in Uncategorized on January 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A talk by Eberhard Arnold (see Wiki bio at bottom) on the occasion of his 50 birthday; the great Christian community builder and spiritual thinker died two years later. ——— ON this day I have been especially conscious of my lack of ability, of how unsuited my own nature is for the work I have [...]
Road home music from the fabulous Who boys (With the tax man & the po-leece in hot pursuit)
Posted in Uncategorized on January 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Keep me mo-bile all the way home from College Station for hospital duty tonight; my 4 day weekend is done. Beep Beep
“It’s all God’s from beginning to end”: A word from JFJ’s mystic chief of staff
Posted in Uncategorized on January 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
If you jitterbuggers go back to Jan. 15 in the jitterbuggingforjesus.com archives you’ll find a posting we had from Marvin Knox of the mighty fine Baptist Standard about religious rights in this country as opposed to the extreme lack of such rights around the world. You might want to go back and re-read that post [...]
Breakfast with Cat ‘Yusuf’ Stevens (Easy Listening, Honest-to-God, Good Morning to You Music)
Posted in Uncategorized on January 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Just wanted to hear this great old church hymn this morning and never mind that it’s not spring yet by a longshot and this song is best appreciated in springtime. This is a beautiful hymn–my favorite of all time–fit for any time any place, and Cat (the mighty holy and mystic Muslim Yusaf) Stevens does [...]
United Methodist Volunteer Missions Leader, Rev. Clinton Rabb, 60, R.I.P
Posted in Uncategorized on January 25, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Jan. 23, 2010 | AUSTIN, Texas (UMNS) A mission leader who died serving one of the world’s poorest nations was remembered as a friend and advocate for the most vulnerable of God’s children. More than 700 friends, family and mission workers from throughout the world packed University United Methodist Church Jan. 23 to celebrate the [...]
Father Richard Rohr on belief systems & more (Spiritual food for thought)
Posted in Uncategorized on January 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“The most amazing fact about Jesus, unlike almost any other religious founder, is that he found God in disorder and imperfection—and told us that we must do the same or we would never be content on this earth. ” “Let’s state it clearly: One great idea of the biblical revelation is that God is manifest [...]
We’re the road & on the lookout for THE HIGHWAY PATROL (With the Great Junior Brown)
Posted in Uncategorized on January 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Yes, jitterbuggers, after a fabulous few days of further plotting the librul takeover of Obama’s America with librul comrades in progressive Christian faith in librul Austin–we’re back on the road headed for College Station for an overnight at home of our fabulously librul daughter Amy McKay’s home in College Station which, believe us, is no [...]
