Our pastor is in Europe on sabbatical, and it’s about time. This makes twenty years that Scott has been at First Baptist and his first real chunk of time away. Thanks to a Lilly Endowment Grant, he and Joanne have been on a pilgrimage through England, Ireland, France, Germany, Austria and now Italy to study [...]
Archive for April, 2011
The Incredulity of St Thomas
Posted in Religion, Visual art on April 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Study; then sleep; then coffee…
Posted in Cartoons, Humor, Local on April 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
If anyone you know has been studying hard for an all-day exam tomorrow, tell him (in this case, her) to get a good night’s sleep. You’ll do fine, Marya. .
Go, tell his disciples and Peter (Mark 16:7)
Posted in Cartoons, Religion on April 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Johnny Hart really caught people’s attention with this Easter cartoon from his comic strip “B.C.”. Notice that Hart uses the character “Peter” to discover the empty tomb. In the Bible account (John 20), the apostle John had run on ahead of Peter, after hearing Mary Magdalene’s report that something strange was going on at the gravesite—but John held back [...]
TGIF
Posted in Cartoons, Humor, Religion on April 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Don’t mess with Maine
Posted in Humor, Local, Political on April 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
It’s supposed to be “Don’t Mess With Texas” but we’re a bit north for that. Paul LePage has done it again. He has meddled with a Maine icon. A couple of weeks ago the mural and now this—the sign on I-95 that motorists see while entering Maine from the south. This pro-business-until-it-kills-us governor just doesn’t get art. [...]
“…for all the nations”
Posted in Religion, Visual art on April 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
And they came to Jerusalem. And he entered the temple and began to drive out those who sold and those who bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons. And he would not allow anyone to carry anything through the temple. And he [...]
Hold that thought.
Posted in Cartoons, Humor, Local on April 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Happy Birthday, Marya! It’s been a better world for the past 25 years… Love, Daddy
RMS Titanic, 99 years later
Posted in History, Maritime, Music on April 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Probably the symbolic end of 19th Century Europe, and an omen of the World War that came two years later, changing it all forever. To the tune of Pachelbel’s Canon in D Major: .
National Library Week, part II: the dark medieval origins
Posted in Humor, Literature on April 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
From offshore to the blogosphere: one year on
Posted in Literature, Maritime, Poetry, Religion on April 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
It’s been one year today. One hundred thirty-one posts, no death threats (but no job offers either), not too much spam, an encouraging number of hits (6300, with the daily average climbing) and just enough positive feedback to fool me into thinking I’m not wasting my time. So far so good. My first blogpost, Dylan Thomas’s poem [...]
National Library Week, part I: the conspiracy to indoctrinate
Posted in Cartoons, Humor, Literature, Local on April 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
But seriously… support your local library and tell Cindy how much you appreciate her.
Weather report: normal for the time of year
Posted in Humor, Maritime, Music on April 8, 2011 | 2 Comments »
With spring finally here, I’m getting out on the water more often, tending offshore lobster gear and about to set a few traps inshore. And paying more attention to the various weather charts and forecasts on the internet. This weather report showed up unexpectedly and, although it’s obsolete as last year’s tide chart and for the British [...]
The Tea Party and Jesus
Posted in Cartoons, Political, Religion on April 5, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Yeah, I’m serious, because in a sense they’re already doing it. And although I’ve filed this under “Cartoons”, “Political” and “Religion” I have not filed it under “Humor”. This is tragedy, not comedy. . Cartoon credit: David Horsey, Seattle Post-Intelligencer .
The Tea Party and Dr. King
Posted in Political, Religion on April 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This Tea Party phenomenon is starting to get under my skin. The idea that government (and big business) can’t have any connection with social concern—and that big business must be allowed to flourish at the expense of the working poor—is not only unkind and unbiblical, it’s impractical and unhistorical. And it’s become a religion all by [...]
Who is the man…?
Posted in Humor, Music on April 2, 2011 | 2 Comments »
It was Eric Clapton’s birthday this week, and I was thinking about putting up a video of him singing “Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out” (oh, all right, here’s the link), but instead here is the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain doing Isaac Hayes’ theme from “Shaft”. The vocals are hilarious too, done by a [...]
