Lenten Devotional

If you are looking for a Lenten devotional, I recommend (without having read any of them) the joint seminary devotional–and not just because I wrote one of them. You can find it here (PDF).
Timotheos

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Slow Blog Week

Michael’s gallivanting all over the Midwest/West and I’m working on a paper for which the deadline was extended–prior to leaving tomorrow morning for my brother’s wedding in So. California. (No rest for the weary.) I’ll be back next week. Balaam’s Ass will speak again!
In the meantime, try this.
Timotheos

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Slow News Week

Surely this didn’t deserve as much attention as it has gotten. Sure it’s news, but it doesn’t belong with adjectives such as “bizarre” (apparently Brian Williams’ favorite word for it). Doesn’t the White House press corps have more interesting things to engage in “heated” discussion with Scott McClellan about? It belongs on [...]

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Best Television Show

I enjoy watching “Lost” on ABC and want to know if you do as well. If you do, what do you like most about the show in its second season?

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The Tapes

In the game known as “politics,” does this story help or hinder the Bush administration?

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In the Spirit of the Day

[I know, I know; haven't I learned my lesson?]
SHE LOVED SINGING
She loved singing
Chanted hymns softly in the month of July
Stuttering canticles of innocent twinkling
Stars in my declining midnight sky
She whistled lilting tunes, chosen and few
They taste of comfortable familiarity
But also of sparkling new consonants blinking merrily
She hummed me a love song out of her soul
It [...]

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Quotes for St. Valentine’s Day

The revolt against vows has been carried in our day even to the extent of a revolt against the typical vow of marriage. It is most amusing to listen to the opponents of marriage on this subject. They appear to imagine that the ideal of constancy was a yoke mysteriously imposed on mankind by the [...]

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Finals Week

Examinations. Papers. Final lectures. These are a few of my least favorite finals week things. I guess I should enjoy them now. Soon, I will no longer be “student.” Instead, I will be the teacher and fondly remembering these days.
Any good finals week memories out there?

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Life of the Party

Prince Albert of Monaco sure knows how to impress the ladies. Here he is at the Opening Ceremony for the 2006 Winter Olympic Games in Turin, Italy.

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Strange Advertising

As I watched the morning news on NBC, one of the commercials promoted Brokeback Mountain, hailing it as “a smash hit in all 50 states.” Assuming that this is true, and that may be a big assumption, why mention “all 50 states”? I can hear it now…Spider Man 3…a smash hit in all 50 states!

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