* Temporarily renamed in honor of the Nativity Fast, about which Mystagogy has some more information.
Category: Playful
Putting “Christ” in “Black Friday.”
Social conservatives will soon be “trying to take Christmas back” or to “put Christ in Christmas.” Perhaps they’ll be calling, again, for boycotts of stores that don’t say “Merry Christmas.”
I’ll not be joining them. Because it isn’t “the Christmas season.” Continue reading “Putting “Christ” in “Black Friday.””
Pumpkin Pecan custard: Rapturously good.
Relying on the end of the world, as predicted yet again by Harold Camping, I enjoyed some Culver’s Flavor of the Day, Pumpkin Pecan. Continue reading “Pumpkin Pecan custard: Rapturously good.”
Summary of Life
From a relative, an e-mail with wry advice: Continue reading “Summary of Life”
Tasty Tidbits 9/5/11
- Strange academic ritual.
- New Orthodox Liberal Arts College (and one prof’s position on evolution).
- Sacramental ontology.
- Aphorism du jour.
- Jesus more popular than Justin Bieber?
Tasty Tidbits 8/21/11
- So: The President walks into 5 bars …
- David Barton’s slip is showing.
- Read ’em and weep.
- R.I.P.
- Guilty! (Do we need any evidence?)
- Listen and smile.
- Doppelgänger alert.
Who’s more grizzled?
Have I mentioned that I’ll watch almost anything with Robert Duvall in it?
Tasty Tidbits 7/1/11
Here’s today’s tasty tidbits:
- Evangelicals lose political influence; should they thank God for that?
- McCarthyism in the darndest places
- The cost of freedom?
- Why should the Scots have had so many good preachers?
- An un-Reformed clergyman addresses a once-Reformed denomination.
- Bereft!
- OCD Strikes AmConMag.
- Is the root of the problem something other than Islam itself?
- Near miss?
- Disneyfication provokes cyber-attack.
Orthopathos, poppers and consumerism
Any church whose worship experience can be replicated with poppers is in trouble. Continue reading “Orthopathos, poppers and consumerism”
Tipsy Teetotaler ن 