Let’s Talk

This is the man with whom Sen. Obama would like to sit down and have a little chat if he’s president.
Whatever happened to, “We don’t negotiate with terrorists.”  (Nope, not even a little bit.)
Timotheos

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“Survivor” Has Nothing On This Girl

19 years alone in the jungle. What can you say about that?
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Sweet Cracker Sandwich!

Finally…the blog archives are here.  Thanks to Shelly at Worldmagblog for the help.
Timotheos

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Deadline: December 31

[You can ignore this post; it only makes sense on the other blog.]
If you still want BA on your blogroll, and you come across this post, please update your link to: http://talkingdonkey.wordpress.com. That’s the new location, for better or worse (still haven’t gotten any help exporting my archives from here to there). December [...]

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“Lutherans” in the News, etc.

It’s always a little surprising (and gratifying) to see Lutherans referenced in the news.  At least until you realize that it is hardly ever good news, and that it is rarely the LCMS.  Almost always, it is the ELCA that finds itself in the news, usually associated with whatever agenda is popular among dead-line Protestants.  [...]

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New Location

If you are interested in reading Balaam’s Ass, the new location is www.talkingdonkey.wordpress.com. Please update your links accordingly. We’re downsizing a bit, but it feels like a new beginning. Still working on getting the archives from here moved over there. See you soon.
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Can you tell me how…

I’m wondering if anyone can tell me how to export my archives to my hard drive in order to upload them to the new WordPress blog. I cannot find an export link on Movable Type. Is there a manual way to do it?
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Moving On

Well, we’ve been here for two and a half years–hard to believe!–but it seems that Worldmagblog is moving on without us. This is part of the message that came to me in response to my inquiry about why we were no longer on the main site: “Because WorldMagBlog is a non-profit organization, we have [...]

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Cider House Rules

A question for those of you who have seen the movie The Cider House Rules. (I haven’t read the book, so I don’t know how different it is.) It seems pretty clear to me that the “Cider house rules” are a metaphor for heteronomous rules, or rules that come from outside us. [...]

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Absolution for Pastors

I commend to you my good brother’s post on Confession and Absolution.
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