* Temporarily renamed in honor of the Nativity Fast, about which Mystagogy has some more information.
I inadvertently posted a preliminary draft, and have withdrawn it for further work.
No categories today, but lots of tags.
My Tidbits escaped while I was still cooking them this morning. If you tasted them more than 10 minutes ago, you didn’t taste the final version.
There’s probably some lesson here:
At 7:15 in the morning on this day in 1974, a slight figure dressed in black stepped off of the edge the World Trade Center’s north tower and onto a wire he’d secretly strung across to the south tower. Continue reading “37th Anniversary”
I’m just a dumb lawyer. I can go weeks at a time without thinking about the Creationist/Evolutionist controversy. Nothing in it requires my close attention.
What roused from my customary obliviousness toward the controversy is the discovery that Protestant Creationism is making inroads in Russia, including in the Orthodox Church. There’s a desire to reject all things Soviet, and evolution tends to be identified with the Soviet regimes. Continue reading “Creationism in Russia”
Flash: the Norway terrorist reportedly is a “right-wing fundamentalist Christian.”
That and about $2.50 will get you a Venti Verona at Starbucks at this early stage of the game.
The New York Times puts that description in its first sentence, but without support anywhere in its article. They’d be more careful with a darker skinned guy named Ahmed.
I found very faint support — self-description as “Christian” in a Facebook profile that was put up just days ago and may be a put-on — elsewhere than the Times article.
As the Brutally Honest blog puts it, “Blood in the water for haters of Christians the world over. The feeding frenzy will begin in 3, 2, 1…” (HT The Anchoress, who asks some pointed questions)
Tipsy Teetotaler ن 