It seemed an interesting juxtaposition that The Writer’s Almanac and Front Porch Republic should today, on side-by-side tabs of my web browser, reflect on some of the big themes of life in this world. Continue reading “Life in this world”
Tag: Krustianity
A tacky icon meets its end
As Jason Peters puts it at Front Porch Republic, Zeus has been avenged for offenses against statuary.
“I guess it takes a divine sense of irony to destroy a fiberglass and foam statue outside a place called Solid Rock Church,” said Monroe assistant fire chief Connie Flagration. “You want irony in a god, but this might be going a bit too far.”
I don’t understand why I don’t hear weeping in heaven. Or maybe I do.
Does this give you deja vu?
In the spirit of Title of the song by DaVinci’s notebook, “Sunday’s Coming” from Northpoint Video. I could not figure out how to embed it, which proves that the author of Pithless Thoughts is more experienced than me at blogging.
“Sunday’s Coming” Movie Trailer from North Point Media on Vimeo.
Jason Peters on the Krustian sell-a-bration of Eester
Item 983 on my growing list of reasons I’m blessed to have stumbled onto Orthodox Christianity.
This kind of stuff, I’m afraid, is the entropic eventuality of Protestantism. We experienced it as “Worship Wars” in my Protestant church before I left, eventually giving one group reluctant leave to “plant” a new church to its tastes. “Church planting” was the lipstick we put on the pig of splitting up.
I look back now and think neither side knew what real worship looked like, but one was more clueless than the other.
I hesitate to use the term “entropy” with Roman Catholicism, which has endured for a rather long time now. But they’ve got some boundary-setting to do, as in this (I shudder to use the term) Liturgy in Los Angeles:
Tipsy Teetotaler ن 
