Words of wisdom — afterthought
March 8th, 2013 | Caution: The moving walkway is ending, Pop goes the culture | Grace | 9 CommentsQuantity of human interaction doesn’t guarantee quality. And what becomes of wisdom and truth in the process?
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Posts from the ‘Caution: The moving walkway is ending’ Category
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New Rapture date … and a Protestant problem
May 24th, 2011 | Caution: The moving walkway is ending, Current events, La Vida Iglesia | Grace | 4 CommentsWell, shucks. The Rapture didn’t happen last Saturday. As I told WordMama, I’m kind of relieved to hear it, actually. What if the Rapture DID happen, and you’re one of the LeftBehinds? You’d get all sweaty like the guys in the Chick tracts. And in case you hadn’t heard, Harold Camping took another look at [...]
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Save the date: Rapture will come Saturday
May 16th, 2011 | Caution: The moving walkway is ending, Current events, La Vida Iglesia, Orthodox perspective, Politics and Current Events, The looming crisis, Uncategorized | Grace | 6 CommentsAccording to 89-year-old evangelical Harold Camping, all the faithful will be Raptured at 6pm on Saturday, May 21. Seems like news you could use, if only to make the appropriate decisions re: dessert & alcohol consumption on Friday. Camping has used “complex mathematical formulas” to arrive at that date — they’re the same formulas that [...]
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Treading on thin, climate-controlled ice
October 28th, 2009 | Caution: The moving walkway is ending, Culture gone mad, Orthodox perspective | Grace | 3 CommentsI love the Orthodox Church, but sometimes when I read editorials and proclamations that come from the highest levels, I want to scream. Case in point: This editorial in today’s Wall St. Journal written by the Greek Patriarch. Titled “Our Indivisible Environment,” the piece speaks of the Orthodox Church’s commitment to environmental issues, noting that [...]
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Rats! and atheists!
May 17th, 2009 | Caution: The moving walkway is ending, Culture gone mad, Orthodox perspective | Grace | 11 CommentsDon’t you hate to waste a lovely spring day on a bad mood? But the sun is glistening outside, lawnmowers are humming, … and I’m bummed out.
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Is decay ever beautiful?
March 16th, 2009 | Caution: The moving walkway is ending | Grace | 5 CommentsPost-apocalyptic piano bar? Nope, it’s the lobby of a long-abandoned hotel in Detroit, beautifully photographed by two French photographers as part of a haunting collection called “Detroit’s Beautiful, Horrible Decline.” You can see it HERE. Are ruins ever beautiful? The answer, I think, is yes.
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Is it time to go inside?
March 14th, 2009 | Caution: The moving walkway is ending | Grace | 3 CommentsGreg accuses me of ‘going meta’ at the drop of a hat. He can do a pretty good imitation of me noticing a new flavor of ice cream and turning it into a case against postmodernism. He’s probably right that I get a little loony sometimes, judging from the fact that a bit of gardening [...]
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Natural Man, Religious Man and the recession
February 7th, 2009 | Caution: The moving walkway is ending, Current events, Orthodox perspective | Grace | 2 CommentsThere’s an essay called “Born to Suffer” in monastic newsletter I get called ‘The Veil,’ (monastery listing HERE) and in it I read: Our sufferings come in many forms, both collectively as a people or a nation, and also as individuals. As a nation/people, we do not have to look far into the past to [...]
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Colder than it's supposed to be
January 16th, 2009 | Caution: The moving walkway is ending, Culture gone mad | Grace | 4 CommentsThe dog and I have retired to the den. My office is a prettier room, but right now it’s also a colder room which trumps other considerations. Missouri isn’t being hit as hard as other Midwestern states with this nasty cold front. But it’s still cold enough to make me say what I always say [...]
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A serious thought or two about tough times
January 11th, 2009 | Caution: The moving walkway is ending | Grace | 2 CommentsI asked Greg what he thought of the Fred video I posted here, and it turned out he didn’t like it, even though he usually likes All Things Fred. Greg didn’t like the switch from Fred’s usual folksy wisdom to this arch bit of sarcasm. But more to the point, he didn’t see how a [...]
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