This is the first of a cycle of four Advent sonnets. The other sonnets will be posted in the upcoming weeks. Click on the title to read the complete post.
Month: November 2008
Thanksgiving
Christians don't have a particular feast associated with specifically with giving thanks to God. Rather, all feasts and all Sundays are days of thanksgiving. Neither is there a specific Christian harvest festival. The Jews have Sukkoth in October, but that is not a feast that translated specifically into Christianity, like Pentecost or Pesach. Of course …
Buyer’s Remorse
Acquaintances of ours are experiencing many of the firsts of young love: first house, first cold snap in the new house, first mouse in the warm kitchen … When she discovered the brand new mouse trap was full, he was away at work, so she had to deal with it by herself. Upon closer inspection …
New Birdfeeder
I took some pictures of the new bird feeder outside our living room window. Click on the title to take a look.
BCS, States Rights, and an Overreaching Federal Government
Undefeated 'Bama (that being Obama and not Alabama) has weighed in and found college football wanting. Hopefully it won't take $700 billion to fix the problem. Click on the title above to read the essay.
First Deer
This would be part three in what is quickly becoming a series on the secret life of food. This poem illustrates the point I was making in the post entitled "Know Thyself." Click on the title to read the introduction and poem.
Know Thyself
In a previous post I said I believed our young people would be better Christians if they knew where their food came from; that is, if they actually observed a cow or a chicken getting butchered. I also opined that, while there are many good reasons for being a vegetarian, becoming one simply because we're squeamish about blood is both cowardly and unchristian. Since both claims seem rather outrageous on the face of it, allow me to defend them in this post. Click on the title to read the complete essay.
A Minor Change in the Blog Format
I've discovered I still prefer the long essay form. But long essays don't work well with the new blog format on this site. So I've changed the settings. What appears on the main page is either a summary or the first bit of the blog post. To read the entire post, just click on the title of the post and it will take you to the full text.
Crosby, Nash, and Hadelich’s Stradivarius
Months ago, in a moment of weakness, I purchased a couple of tickets to a concert by David Crosby and Graham Nash (of Crosby, Stills, and Nash fame). Between the time I purchased the tickets and the actual concert date I began to worry about the concert being a bust. Several years ago I took …
Real Christianity – Not for the Squeamish
This week we watched a documentary on Edward Espe Brown, retreat center baker and cook, cookbook author, and cooking instructor. He's mostly a vegetarian (although he recommends bacon in some of his bean recipes). No matter his personal eating habits, nearly all his clientele are either vegetarian or vegan. The story one adolescent told was …
Just Another Jim 