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Seems I was not the only one listening rather closely to Sunday's gospel. Disputations looks at another key implication of the passage. Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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Gospel of Terror You thought I was going to talk about Islamic terrorism, didn’t you? Sorry—I’m thinking rather of the Gospel of Mark, the verses from chapter 9 which all Catholics heard read at Mass today. They include the warning that it would be better to have a millstone fixed round one’s neck and be…
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Gentle Giant: In a Glass House More ‘70s progressive rock. I remember hearing this group’s name back then, but not their music. I doubt I would ever have listened to them but for the respected poster on the eMusic message board who goes by the handle of Music Lover and who calmly and persistently insisted…
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Though the Heavens Fall How many status points do I get for attending the Alabama premiere of a movie? Not that many, I suppose. But that’s what I was doing Sunday evening, at the Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival in Birmingham. The name of the film is Heavens Fall, and the reason there was an Alabama…
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I'm double-posting this to the Caelum et Terra blog, not being sure whether everybody who reads one and might be interested in this also reads the other. Good words from the signoff: As we have written previously, we believe that to suffer one’s place and one’s people in the particularity of its and their needs…
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Blue Sky Frequency: And Then She Smiled There must be a lot of bands comparable to Blue Sky Frequency: making music that ranges from good to very good but isn’t extremely distinctive, performing locally or regionally while working day jobs, recording on small independent labels with shaky distribution. The “long tail” of Intenet commerce ought…
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Can't help thinking this gentleman's biofeedback device may need some adjustment. Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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Black guy puts on a cowboy hat and invents hick-hop. I heard a little of his music on tv not long ago and actually sort of liked it, although it's not something I would seek out, which is not surprising considering that I don't have much taste for either contemporary country or rap/hip-hop. There's a…
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Snapping the Thread Living in a not particularly cosmopolitan area of the U.S., I haven’t come into contact with many Muslims. As far as I can remember the first one was a young man I met at some sort of social gathering quite a few years ago—sometime around 1980, I think. I can’t place the…
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At WDC Media (a "Christian News and Media Agency"), this headline: Found Guilty Evangelical Christian Navy Chaplain Says Hell Appeal Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js