My feeling about the United States is this. To live alongside this great country is like living with your wife. At times it is difficult to live with her. At all times it is impossible to live without her. -Lester Pearson, Prime Minister, describing Canada-U.S. relations to French statesman Charles de Gaulle. The Americans are our best [...]
quotes
Stupid Quote of the Week
Well there has been a lot of them but this one seemed stupider than the rest I have heard. It is some marketing executives talking about Old Spice and Axe. “Before [Old Spice] discovered its purpose,” Mr. Stengel said in his Cincinnati talk, “we were, frankly, chasing Axe. … It can be a very sexy [...]
Too busy
"We can talk on the phone as we eat fast food while using the ATM. Not only are we better at multitasking and becoming more productive and efficient, along with the increased pace, more is required of us. And so we hurtle through life faster and faster, becoming busier and busier. The result is that [...]
Simpsons Quotes
Homer: D’oh.Ralph: Me fail English? That’s unpossible. Lionel Hutz: This is the greatest case of false advertising I’ve seen since I sued the movie “The Never Ending Story.” Sideshow Bob: No children have ever meddled with the Republican Party and lived to tell about it. Troy McClure: Don’t kid yourself, Jimmy. If a cow ever [...]
Rehearing Colossians 1.1–14
Rom Targum 1: Rehearing Colossians 1.1–14 in the Context of Disquieted Globalism But here is the rub. Everything in this monolithic culture of McWorld globalization is allied against you and will try to keep your imaginations captive, stripping you of the courage to dream of alternative ways to live. So may you be strengthened with [...]
Exiles
This came from a friend of mine in response to this post. Amma Syncletica said, “We ought to govern our souls with discretion and to remain in the community, neither following our own will nor seeking our own good. We are like exiles: we have been separated from the things of this world and have [...]
The Simple Way
Shane Claiborne writes this in his book, The Irresistible Revolution. (good book BTW, worth reading) Not too long ago, those of us at the Simple Way were about to speak to a congregation. The person doing the introduction said, “These folks are a voice for the voiceless.” And something inside me hurt. I gently corrected [...]
