According to this AP report on CNN, Hubertus Strughold has been removed from the Space Hall of Fame. I think I was at his induction ceremony.
Nazi removed from Space Hall of Fame
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Christianity explained (for non-Christians)
If you’ve never been too clear about the difference between premils and Eastern Orthodox (and really, who is?) then you owe it to yourself to get the straight dope here.
The Emerging Church
This is a term that refers to churches attended exclusively by white people in their 20s and 30s who have at least one tattoo or body piercing. Their distinguishing characteristics are a refreshing, “up to date” interpretation of Christianity, and a reluctance to directly answer questions.
Such knowledge is all the more important now that the DaVinci Code is flopping in Cannes.
First onsite interview!
I got the phone call tonight: my first onsite interview is scheduled.
For mid-June. This past weekend I graduated (more soon, incl. pix). Next weekend is free for me, but it’d be pretty hard to get something lined up that soon. The following weekend is Memorial Day, then Pentecost, and then, finally, we have two available Sundays.
Finding a calling in this denomination– Oh well, people manage to do it, somehow. But if they love me, and I love them, that weekend, and assuming that we can negotiate terms of call in zero time, then it will be all we can do to get moved out of here before the housing office calls the sheriff.
Plus, now I have too much time to fret over my neutral-pulpit sermon.
Shave ‘em and send ‘em to college…
From Digg we have this late-breaking news flash: Drunk monkeys act like humans. There are a number of a fascinating insights, but I was interested to learn that
“The singly housed monkeys certainly drank more than the socially housed monkeys- at least two to three-fold more,” Chen told Discovery News.
Of course, anyone who listens to George Thorogood could have told you that.
24 television program
The library has probably doubled its DVD collection over the past year or so, but a fair fraction of those new DVDs are reruns-on-disc of various television programs. The faithful reader of this blog (me) knows that I liked Buffy and was so-so about Lost. And now comes 24, which…. Well, frankly, it stinks.
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Done and done!
I am done with seminary! It’s all over but the shoutin’ … or more precisely, the commencement exercises. (Assuming I don’t flunk any of my classes, but I won’t even mention that for fear that … uh … oh, no. Aarrgh!)
I spent the past week reading about a zillion books and then churning out end-of-term papers for all my classes. One was technically a take-home exam, and one was a “group project” (i.e., I had a partner), but the other two were the usual 15-page doozies.
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Them’s fightin’ words!
At bedtime in my house we’re reading Treasure Island. Last night, Long John Silver delivered a brief speech that included this line:
Have I lived this many years, and a son of a rum puncheon cock his hat athwart my hawse at the latter end of it?
Somehow son of a rum puncheon cock his hat athwart my hawse isn’t what most people think to say on Talk Like a Pirate Day. Then you mostly hear “Arrrh” and “Avast” — and maybe, if you’re really lucky, “Shiver me timbers!”
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Beam me up: young James Kirk
According to the evil Reuters Viacom apparently think they can squeeze a few more bucks from the Franchise, apparently:
Daily Variety said the action would center on the early days of “Star Trek” characters James T. Kirk and Mr. Spock, including their first meeting at Starfleet Academy and first outer-space mission.
The paper described “Star Trek” as Hollywood’s most durable performer after James Bond, spawning 10 features that have grossed more than $1 billion and 726 TV episodes from six series.
I’m trying to think whether I ever saw Nemesis. I know I didn’t see it at the theaters, but I don’t think I even checked it out of the library.
Young James T. Kirk. I assume the sales pitch sold it as a sort of “Harry Potter without the scar and Hogwarts in space.” With Spock as a sort of Hermione character. Scotty would be Hagrid. Chekov would be Krum. Bones would be, um, someone else.
Cool map of religious affiliation
If you’ve ever wondered where all the Methodists hang out, or Muslims, Pentecostals, Quakers, etc., then you really should go look at the Map Gallery of Religion in the United States. (Kudus to Digg.)
The Presbyterian map is encouraging, because it shows that, as a denomination, we haven’t vanished away entirely. Yet. On the other hand, the places where we have the most Presbyterian boots on the ground are the places I’d just as soon not live. Since my expectation is to become a Presbyterian pastor in the next couple of months, I could wish it were otherwise.
I got the graduatin’ senior blues…
Well, actually, no. (Isn’t that a contradiction?) But if I did have the blues, I found a website to help me express myself bluesily: the Desktop Blues page. More fun than a barrel of goldfish! And from Switzerland, no less!
(Kudus to plastic bugs.)