Jitterbugging for Jesus

It’s never a good idea, nor very Christian, to kill someone who refuses to be baptized.
This came back to me the other day when I was thumbing through a book, Wesley and the People Called Methodists, which gives a wonderful history of John Wesley’s life and times. (I’m a history fanatic, BTW.) It’s by Richard [...]

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*** Photo from Julio (aka Risquillo), who writes:
I don’t have a website but in general terms this is my profile. I am started in photography by accident. About twenty two years ago, my wife asked my to buy her a camera for taking pictures of the family, I bought a SLR and she wanted a [...]

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Flying at Night
by Ted Kooser
Above us, stars. Beneath us, constellations.
Five billion miles away, a galaxy dies
like a snowflake falling on water. Below us,
some farmer, feeling the chill of that distant death,
snaps on his yard light, drawing his sheds and barn
back into the little system of his care.
All night, the cities, like shimmering novas,
tug [...]

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This opinion piece on immigration is by Libby Grammer Garrett, a master-of-divinity student at McAfee School of Theology in Atlanta.
She’s also an immigration paralegal at Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz in Chattanooga, Tenn. This guest column was published by Associated Baptist Press, and originally was written as an exercise for her seminary class in [...]

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The venerable actress and director (currently directing A Streetcar Named Desire) Liv Ullmann in an interview with America, the Jesuit magazine, about her devout Catholic faith:

Has being a goodwill ambassador for Unicef and visiting developing countries for the International Rescue Committee made you a more spiritual person?
UllMan:
When I met people who had nothing, but who [...]

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Hey, Coach, ol’ buddy, I heard you on the radio today saying, “I think our guys are going to be more determined to win now, I think they’re ready to get back to work, I think this, I think that.”
Man, I think somebody needs to explain the power of positive thinking to you. And there’s [...]

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Survey: One Quarter of Americans Could Claim ‘No Religion’ in 20 Years
September 22, 2009
By Dan Gilgoff, religion writer for U.S. News & World Report
If current trends continue, a quarter of Americans are likely to claim “no religion” in 20 years, according to a survey out today by Trinity College. Americans who identify with no [...]

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How many kazillions of words have been written about home in books, poems, songs and plays.
How many variations of themes are attached to home: leaving home, missing home, yearning and burning to get back home, hating home, loving home, no home, many homes, remembering home.
Home is where the heart is but, sadly, you can’t go [...]

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Yes, those who tapped into jitterbuggingforjesus.com today had a number of special treats.
Let us review:
We started off with a posting about our main man and musical mystic Dave Matthews, who gave an interesting Q&A interview to CNN in which he spoke his mind about racism, the shabby state of journalism (and he was absolutely right-on [...]

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