bad theology

Kennesaw First Baptist Church sent out classy-looking postcards announcing on the front, along with the traditional three crosses

He is Risen Indeed!

Please join us in celebrating the Resurrection of Our Lord

Easter
Sunday, April 24

Worship with us at 8:15am 9:30am 11:00am
Community sunrise service 6:45am

Sunday School during each service for ages 6 weeks-preK
Older children are encouraged to attend worship services with parents

Then on the back, along with the postal area, are 5 colored eggs in some stylized grass and the words

He's Alive!
Eggstravganza
Saturday, April 23
3:00-5:00pm

For ages 2yrs-6^th grade
Fun! Fun! Fun! & it's Free! Free! Free!

Egg hunts! Pony rides! Crafts! Inflatables!

• First, what is the season?
  
  
  
• What is the reason for the season?
  
  
  
• He is Risen Indeed! on Sunday but He's Alive! on Saturday afternoon. Mixed message? End justifies the means?
  
  
  
• Do crafts include "Roll away the stone"?
  
  
  
• Is the pony left over from Palm Sunday?

An inquiring public wants to know!

communication

My husband, an Army drill sergeant, was on a training exercise in the California desert. "The nights are cold and lonely," he wrote to me. "All I can think about is how much I miss you and how cold my feet are. Could you please send me something to make the nights more tolerable?" Determined to boost his morale, I sent him a picture of myself posing in a revealing negligee. Two weeks later, I received this note: "Honey, you look great! Now can you send me some wool socks?" - Genny Conley q._Humor In Uniform_

I am left-brained

http://jobs.aol.com/articles/2009/01/26/are-you-a-right-or-left-brain-thinker/?icid=main%7Chtmlws-main-n%7Cdl11%7Csec1_lnk3%7C207578

1. Are you better at math and science than art and literature? Yes
2. Do you love playing sports outdoors over reading indoors? No
3. Do you prefer verbal communication over physical communication? Yes
4. Would you rather draw pictures freehand instead of putting together a model airplane? neither
5. Do you like being in groups more than being alone? lean to No
6. When given instructions, are lots of pictures easier to understand than lots of text? lean to No
7. Have you noticed that you're better at providing the details and necessary information for a project than coming up with the initial idea? lean to Yes
8. Do you need a quiet environment when you are working? absolutely yes
9. Would you enjoy helping someone solve a relationship problem more than a math problem? lean to No
   Are you better at helping someone solve a relationship problem more than a math problem? absolutely No
10. If you were a writer, would you prefer to write nonfiction books instead of fiction? lean to Yes
    If you were a writer, would you be better at writing nonfiction books instead of fiction? absolutely Yes

CVG news

always wondered if this ever happened

the literary pup

I just finished reading the beautiful "Fitting Service" (Cw2011Jan28) for the third time. This time I picked up on the echo in Bp Zauner's comment "... tria millia hominum ..." translated very reasonably into English from the context as "... three thousand people...".

One of the most dramatic Latin phrases in the Vulgate account of Jesus' encounter w/Pontius Pilatus is "Ecce homo" translated into English as best as is possible "Behold the man".

In this time of concern of the translation of Latin into English appropriately, would that the lessons of the differences in the two above phrases and their translation were more widely appreciated. And their implications also. We will never know why Jerome did not write "Ecce vir". Perhaps someone with the Greek original in front of them might comment. Jerome might say to us what he has PP saying in re the inscription on the cross "Quod scriptsi, scriptsi." (What I have written, I have written.)

ego boost

While doing one of those "projects from hell", I offered to resign.

• They didn't take me up on the offer.


• I am getting slightly less s... than before

Is this a sign of respect or indolence?

scientists w/balls

from my brother, yet another wild and crazy physicist