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OK. Get ready. If you’ve never heard this before, I offer you your biggest laugh of the day…because, as I often say, we people of faith take ourselves waaay too seriously…. The Abominable Holy Night So now, you’re wondering, “what was that?!!!” You can find out here. All honor and glory to the Burnside Writer’s […]
Read MoreWhat follows is one of the most beautiful few paragraphs about Christmas ever written. I have had this blog…what?….six years? Why am I just now sharing this? Anyway, here it is, from one of my all-time favorite writers, Frederick Buechner, and his book “Whistling in the Dark: An ABC Theologized.” (A book I cannot recommend […]
Read MoreI’ve been fans of the folks at “The Advent Conspiracy” for a couple of years now. Every December, I like to see the kinds of things they’re putting out, to encourage folks to buy less and yet give more at Christmas. If you are confused by how one might buy less yet give more, check […]
Read MoreMany thanks to friend and colleague, David Weber, for his great quote about today, “Black Friday.” It’s worth meditating on for a while…. “Americans stopped for awhile yesterday to give thanks for what they have, then rose this morning, early, and left the house, praying ‘But it’s not enough.’ “ Please visit Eric’s original blog […]
Read MoreMost of you who know my musical tastes know the hallowed, and unabashed, place that Dan Fogelberg holds in my heart. Dan died far too young. To this day, many times when I’m listening to his music, it’s hard for me to fathom that he’s been gone for almost two years now. And even now, […]
Read MoreI haven’t written much about the death of Senator Ted Kennedy. Today was his funeral in Boston and graveside service at Arlington Cemetery. We had a busy personal day with a whole series of activities that kept us away from the television for most of it. But one moment we happened to see really captured […]
Read MoreWhile I was in Colorado on vacation last week, I stumbled on this short Facebook essay by Sofia Echegaray. There was something about it I found absolutely lovely; something about that beautiful combination of creative accident, preparation, and (as Sofia says here) paying attention.As they say in Zen, “Don’t just do something, stand there.” There’s […]
Read MoreThis got posted to the web about three days ago. It’s gone from about a thousand hits last night to 30,000 this morning. My strong hunch is that, by the end of the week, it’ll be in the millions. Apparently posted by Jill Peterson and Kevin Kheinz, and apparently from their actual wedding processional. Check […]
Read MoreThanks to Kathryn P for posting this on Facebook. This is a great lecture from Michael Welch, talking about YouTube culture…which could actually be seen as Facebook culture, or blogger culture, I suppose. The point is, it’s a good analysis of where we are now with these new media outlets, and how they’re not necessarily […]
Read MoreGot this prayer first from Tom Geddie, who perhaps got it from this source in Austin. It’s the oldest version I can find online. It’s worth repeating. This text comes from music writer, Michael Corcoran, who says this:“At the end of his two-hour keynote address, Quincy Jones asked those in the packed ballroom to stand […]
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