The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan
Williams, has announced the makeup and the terms of reference for a
Commission to look at life in the Anglican Communion in the light of
recent events (homosexuality).

NT Wright is on the Commission.

These bloggers boast a family that has killed cats by way of a two-by-four, a raccoon trap, and mosquito repellent. Who are they?

I should have never mentioned that I know Elias McConnell. I got two different emails this morning from French teeny-boppers. I bet they don’t shave their legs…ewww.

Say goodbye to academic science journals and hello to the Public Library of Science. In the PLoS biology, they’ve discovered how to enhance monkey brains so monkeys can move robot arms with their minds. *shudder*

I have to wonder what causes all the division in Presbyterian and Reformed camps. My first guess is pride. It seems to me that because presbyterians are anti-heirarchical, they’re always fighting to gain a spot in the imageless heirarchy of their special group.

“There are evangelicals who are social conservatives but who are bent on Christianity expressing itself societally. Among these are theonomists, reconstructionists, “ex-theonomists and reconstructionists” and other miscreants. It is amazing how quick they are to discard reformational soteriological teaching in order to advance their neo-sacerdotalism, kingdom ecclesiology/eschatology, and dreams of Christendom.”
Rev. Ligon Duncan

I’ve never met a mainline Lutheran or Episcopalian that was an ex-theonominist, but I’ll be watching out for them.

One from Mars, one from Venus
A whole world–between us
Sparks that bridge the difference
Feed the flame
I know you’re good for me
You spin me off my tether
You change me for the better
We’re good together

Just a note: The pastor was quoting Flannery O’Connor on the Christian faith. “You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you odd.” When with non-Christians we should feel odd. That’s all. Later oddballs.

Yesterday I was supposed to go to Christ Church with Rick, but something happened to the clutch in his car, and there was no way we’d make it up all those hills to get to the South hill, so we had to drive back to where my car was parked, and take it instead. By the time we got to my car, we weren’t going to make it for the church service, so we decided to visit Salem Lutheran (the church where Rick is a cantor) instead.

As Rick said, “the combined ages of the people there probably add up to about 4,000.” And there weren’t a lot of people, either. There were old ladies and men galore. But they’re the nicest, sweetest people you’ll ever meet.

The main point of the minister’s sermon was that, as God’s people, we are odd. He reminded us of how we’re all joined in unity through our baptism and set apart from the rest of the world. That is pretty odd. Wonderfully odd.

At the end of the sermon, he said to us: “May the oddness of the Lord be with you all.”

Without hesitation, the congregation responded: “And also with you.”

I just looked out the window and saw snow. Not the snow that is normally outside. TV snow. Like when a video runs out of tape. I need a nap.