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Jesus is About to Return

There’s a billboard just off the side of the freeway, where I get on in the evening to go home. I don’t rememeber the exact wording, but it’s something along the lines of,
Jesus is About to Return
Get Ready
And then a url for whatever church group had paid for the billboard.
Now, I don’t claim to [...]

One Man’s Bizarre Reaction to Fear

I saw on the Daily Show last night that Keith Olbermann from MSNBC said of the new Republican Senator from Massachusetts, Scott Brown, that he was “irresponsible, homophobic, racist, reactionary, ex-nude model, tea-bagging supporter of violence against women and against politicians with whom he disagrees.”
Now, I don’t care that he said it.  “News people” on [...]

Clownin’ Around in Church

At our church, there a some women, mostly older women, who wear hats every week. It probably goes back to 1 Corinthians 11:5:
11:5 But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered dishonoureth her head: for that is even all one as if she were shaven.
I don’t think that many modern churches [...]

Reptiles in Washington

It’s Christmas, and after waking up and opening presents I went to 7/11 to get coffee and the paper. I wanted to see if there was anything in the store ads compelling enough to make me want to venture into the post-Christmas shopping fray, no not really. One of the ads was from [...]