A Piper Cub Lands in Philistia

I imagine that we probably all do this with God, but until I think of a specific example, I’m just going to file this under humor.

Sitting in a coffeehouse working. There were a couple women who met here, one of whom had a 2-year-old son. When it was time to leave, the ladies did what many adult friends do: they stood up, put on their coats, packed things up — and then stood there and talked some more. The little boy started wandering around the shop.

There are some cabinets to my left whose handles are right about eye-level for the kid. He discovered that opening one of the doors a few inches, and then letting it swing closed made a satisying “clunk” noise. So he started doing this over and over. His mother noticed what was going on, called his name, and said “No, no.” To his credit, the boy immediately obeyed and even closed the door quietly.

Then he walked over to the next cabinet and started clunking its door, instead.

Lest you wonder why some Canadian web designer has a Christian book published, read this. It totally rocks.

Today’s global warming symposium has been cancelled as the speakers are still shoveling their way out of their driveways.

That’s me — second from the left. The other 3 are my cousins.

Since two people have already asked, we were probably singing Southern Gospel. This was at my uncle’s place and he is an SG junkie. He even was in a quartet himself for a while. In fact, the kid with the guitar was in that quartet too, when he was about 22.

The wind chill right now (outside Atlanta) is 14 degrees.  But my heart is warmed.  Today, we celebrate the 3 most beautiful words in the English language:

While governor of Arkansas . . .

(Wait a minute, you mean we are actually considering having another Arkansas governor for president?)

Take 2.

While governor of Arkansas, Mike Huckabee supported a bill that would allow the children of illegal immigrants the same right to earn scholarships to state colleges as legal citizens. In arguing in support of this stance, Huckabee stated that the bill was saying “that we’re not going to punish a child because the parents committed a crime”.

Setting aside the obvious point that financial aid generally helps the entire family, not just the student, there’s a huge misrepresentation here. Not granting the same level of scholarship opportunity to the children of illegal immigrants isn’t “punishing” them. It is simply not rewarding them.

Either Huckabee is an incredible liar, or he’s monumentally stupid not to recognize the fact that there’s a difference between punishment and lack of reward.

A less charitable person might note that this is a very basic parental issue, and wonder if this accounts for all the problems that Huckabee’s son has had.

Back in the late 1980s, CCM magazine started wetting its pants every time that Bono would say “God” or Whitney Houston would stop singing about megalomania long enough to talk about her gospel music background. This mostly bored me, but it also puzzled me for a while.

Eventually, it started to become clear that in the writers’ eyes, these two superstars supposedly gave a shot in the arm to the gospel. (Either that or they were so insecure in their own standing, that Bono gave them credibility that they felt Jesus couldn’t.)

See also the Jacob’s Trouble song, “If Superman Got Saved“.

Recently, Baptist Press decided to kick it up (down?) a notch, by reporting on folks witnessing outside the “professional American-style football championship game held in early February” *. Apparently now, its newsworthy and credibility-granting to Jesus when a crotchety old semi-celebrity like Andy Rooney rebuffs an attempt to give the gospel message and says derogatory things about Christians.

Whatever happened to “you were bought with a price” and it wasn’t “The Joshua Tree” and took longer than 60 Minutes ?

HT to Aaron at BHT.

* Don’t want those nasty lawyers on my back because I said “Super Bowl”. Oops.

Would you please just stop it with the scarves, already?  We know you’re trying to convince us that you’re a female homo sapien.  We’re not buying it.