Friday, September 30, 2011

Word Of The Week

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"Absolution" A declaration by a bishop or priest announcing forgiveness by God to those who have confessed their sins and...

Dear Members Of The Superior Order [The Traditional Name For The Leadership Of The Episcopal Church. Really, That's Not Sarcasm.]

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As you can see from above [click to enlarge], the President of the United States has taken as strong a stand as is diplomatically possible ...
Thursday, September 29, 2011

Teacher Of The Year [So Far]

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Teacher penalizes students for saying "bless you" Here's the best quotation:  "After parents complained about students ...

Surfers In The News

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Surfers rescue great white shark

Iranian Christian Pastor Faces Death For Refusing To Recant

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Last week, I received 47 separate messages to my e-mail, voice mail, and Facebook accounts concerning the wrongness of capital punishment in...
Wednesday, September 28, 2011

As In Coptic Christians

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93,000 Copts left Egypt since March  

A Book Of Interest

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Why We Should Call Ourselves Christians: The Religious Roots of Free Societies From the book jacket: Not only is anti-Christian seculari...

Dear Mr. and Ms. Government

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I have the same guitar wood in my workshop.  Some of it I even bought from Gibson. Do I rate a visit from the U.S Fish and Wildlife SWAT tea...
Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Universities Now Have "Threat Assessment Teams"?

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And they apparently police nerdy posters put up on office doors.  Wow, no wonder higher education costs so much, as the budget has to provid...

My Old Outfit Makes The Headlines

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Mt. Frissell rescue took six hours to complete When I first joined the Lakeville Hose Company [that's their official name], I was surp...

Archaeological News

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Dead Sea Scrolls Are Now Online

Well, That's Big Of Them

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Veterans Administration agrees not to censor prayer at Houston cemetery

Honestly, I'm Having A Little Trouble Figuring Out Which Side I'm On

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Allouez cemetery employee charged with stealing guitar from casket I appreciate the sentiment, but why not bequeath a vintage guitar to so...
Monday, September 26, 2011

What Surfer Funerals Are Like

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Bodyboarders paddle out for Eddie Solomon
Sunday, September 25, 2011

Because For Some They're Synonymous

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Offenders in Ala. town can choose jail or church
Saturday, September 24, 2011

The Fifteenth Sunday After Pentecost

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This week Ezekiel reveals the promises of monotheism, Paul bids us to work out our salvation in "fear and trembling", and Jesus, y...
Friday, September 23, 2011

Surfboard Tales, Part Twelve

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It was called Dingo’s Beach Club and it wasn’t on any of the tourist maps. Actually, it wasn’t on any map at all as it existed mostly in t...

Hmm

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Atheism as mental deviance

As Bill Cosby Once Told His Little Brother, "The Police Are Your Mother And Father", Cont.

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OC Couple Threatened With $500-Per-Meeting Fines For Home Bible Study

Everything You Know Is Wrong

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Speed of light 'broken' by scientists "It was Albert Einstein, no less, who proposed more than 100 years ago that nothing cou...