Praying for strength

O God, by whom the meek are guided in judgment, and light rises up in
darkness for the godly: Grant us, in all our doubts and uncertainties,
the grace to ask what you would have us do, that the Spirit of wisdom
may save us from all false choices, and that in your light we may see
light, and [...]

How fitting.

I swear, at times Forward Day By Day is eerily on target.
Mark 14:43-65. Judas, one of the twelve, arrived; and with him there
was a crowd with swords and clubs… He went up to Jesus at once and
said, “Rabbi!” and kissed him.
My hunch is that somewhere along the way there have been episodes in
the lives of [...]

Disquiet

Why is it that I know the truth, and I pray for peace, and yet I still
feel so shaken?
The evening service at church is participatory, and the metaphor we
explored was standing on holy ground, as Moses did when he faced the
burning bush. I shared my story of standing on that outcropping and
feeling myself thrown back [...]

And now, a word from our sunlight…

Taken August 6, at Frying Pan Park, Chantilly, VA.

You know what's good?

Fresh-baked brownies from scratch topped with Denali ice cream (that is, vanilla ice cream with peanut-butter cups and fudge).

Strangeness

I kinda miss Rob from Phillygoth right now.

Thanks to Kat

…for posting this, the latest marketing poster for recruiting Catholic priests:
There can be only….
My highly ironic question, of course, is where Trinity fits into this picture.

To anyone confused

This morning's outburst was directed at my inbox, not at the political parties that run this country [into the ground].
I was really groggy and grumpy, and I am a moderate, and i didn't really express what i needed to express:
If the subject of your progressive organization's email states the obvious, chances are I'm not going [...]

Sane Christians, chapter 2

1. Reverend Susan at everyvoice.net
2. Over at Addison Road, a reverent yet irreverent emergent blog, trenchancy rules, dude. I'm bookmarking this guy.
In fact, I think your best play here might be to embrace this, to gather up any remaining benefit of the doubt among your followers, and to say that is was a mistake. [...]

garsh i sneepy

*thud* I can't argue with people anymore, I just want to bring them
together. unite, not divide. we have to live with what we have, but
make the world better tomorrow. deal with the present, fight the
future. (Go Scully.)

Sane Christian responses to Robertson, chapter 1

1. From Father Jake Stops the World
2.Pat Robertson: An embarrassment to the church
by Jim Wallis
Pat Robertson is an embarrassment to the church and a danger to
American politics.
Robertson is known for his completely irresponsible statements - that
the 9/11 terrorist attacks were due to American feminists and
liberals, that true Christians could vote only for George W. Bush,
that [...]

Dear leftist interest groups

When Bush does something that actually has a whiff of compromise to
it, try to not sound shrill in the condemnation of it just because you
condemn everything he does.
I wish I could come up with something as witty as “It's the economy,
stupid” to indicate that being extremely far left is just as divisive
as being extremely far [...]

I didn't send it, but I should have.

Someone on a listserv I am on wrote:
>But what do you do in response? The kind of thing you have done is
one form of action; it has
>great value in helping people sort
themselves out. Another, more passive, possibility may simply
>be to
give the man rope enough to hang himself.
I have drafted the following answer:
And hang [...]

Marketing genius

“Lemon” reminds me of two things: POS cars and furniture polish.

"Pat sees the light."

[file under: If I wrote for the Daily Feed.]
Dick: you have to apologize, or I'm going to have to move the conversation from “inappropriate” to “unfortunate.”
Pat: !!!!! but i don't wanna!!
Dick: It's bullying 101. Say something mean, then take it back. Say I was only kidding. It works on email lists all the time.
Pat: What's [...]