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You Will Click This Link
I’m sorry. You don’t really have a choice. You may try to avoid clicking on the link below, but your resistence is futile. You’ve already lost. Seriously. Do it already. They Might Be Giants cover Tubthumping I do have only one question: why even resist? Seriously the best thing you saw today. You are welcome.
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The Slave Is Neither Wicked Nor Lazy
Proper 28A, Matthew 25:14-30 This passage is known as the Parable of the Talents. Which is unfortunate, since it sometimes gives us the wrong idea. We think that it has something to do with investing our talents and treasure in the Kingdom of God. That’s what we normally preach. And we’d be wrong. We also preach…
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Is Joe Paterno Your Scapegoat?
You should be mad at Joe Paterno. I wouldn’t be surprised if, when the whole Penn State child sexual abuse scandal is over, it is possible that he is at the center of a great-big cover-up. But Paterno shouldn’t be our scapegoat. And neither should the whole coaching staff. We can’t march these people out…
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Why I Hate Announcement Time
My least favorite part of any worship service is the announcement time. There are so many things wrong with it and there are so few ways to actually fix it. I’m starting to think we should do away with the whole enterprise. Many Episcopal churches place the announcements in the middle of the service. Honestly,…
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6 Keys to Engaging Seniors in Church
Growing up, my favorite people in church fell into the “senior” category. They were the most engaged in my life and were so happy to see me. I wasn’t a nuisance, even when I was incredibly embarrassing to my parents. I was so profoundly loved by the seniors at Trinity Episcopal in Alpena, Michigan. This category,…
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The Two Politics
In the United States we have two politics. Competitive Politics The first, I’ll call “Competitive Politics,” is the two-party system of pugilism, evidenced by our incessant competitive metaphors. We talk about horse races, boxing matches, and football. So outdated is this vision of politics, that we even use war metaphors as evidence of only two…
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Bad Science, Infant Cereal, and Church Tradition
In her post, “Why Ditch The Infant Cereals?” KristenM at Food Renegade makes a compelling case for not giving cereal to babies before they are one year-old. The case is made of two important arguments: 1) What is developmentally and biologically appropriate and 2) There is no “traditional” basis for it. Against these two arguments,…
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