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Got my Sojourners email this morning, with this graphic in it:



Ho ho? Who are these guys? So I check the whole site.

I've found my mother's "Northern" Baptists, methinks.

"Judson Press is the publishing arm of American Baptist Churches USA, a Protestant denomination that includes 1.5 million members in 5,800 congregations in the United States and Puerto Rico. The denomination's national offices are housed in the American Baptist Mission Center in Valley Forge, Pa."

Not "Northern," but looking through the site, I see a lot of familiar ground. (sunfell, you might want to share this on dark_christian.)

About the book in question?

In the last few years, books in the Left Behind fiction series, co-authored by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins, have taken Christian publishing by storm. Although the books are fictional, they are based on--and promote--a particular understanding of end times events that flow from the authors' theological context and approach to biblical interpretation. Here, Flesher describes and challenges the theological framework, interpretative practices, socio-political ideologies, and the end times scenario that, while prominent in the Left Behind series, are not shared by most biblical scholars. Flesher outlines how to read the Bible and exposes the use and abuse of Scripture to support the peculiar doctrines of "Rapture" and "Tribulation." Demonstrating how theological preconceptions guide the use of Bible texts, she explodes the myth of "literal interpretation" and highlights the importance of understanding history, context and literary genre. Flesher continues with a presentation of alternative readings of Daniel, Revelation, and other key Scriptures. Celebrating these texts as "resistance literature," designed to help Christians keep the faith in a hostile world, Flesher offers practical guidelines for appropriating their message in a post modern world.

Hmm. That's another one I can buy a few copies of for handy distribution. Oh very yes.

(And they have all kinds of things that look pretty tasty, to boot.)

Got my Sojourners email this morning, with this graphic in it:



Ho ho? Who are these guys? So I check the whole site.

I've found my mother's "Northern" Baptists, methinks.

"Judson Press is the publishing arm of American Baptist Churches USA, a Protestant denomination that includes 1.5 million members in 5,800 congregations in the United States and Puerto Rico. The denomination's national offices are housed in the American Baptist Mission Center in Valley Forge, Pa."

Not "Northern," but looking through the site, I see a lot of familiar ground. (sunfell, you might want to share this on dark_christian.)

About the book in question?

In the last few years, books in the Left Behind fiction series, co-authored by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins, have taken Christian publishing by storm. Although the books are fictional, they are based on--and promote--a particular understanding of end times events that flow from the authors' theological context and approach to biblical interpretation. Here, Flesher describes and challenges the theological framework, interpretative practices, socio-political ideologies, and the end times scenario that, while prominent in the Left Behind series, are not shared by most biblical scholars. Flesher outlines how to read the Bible and exposes the use and abuse of Scripture to support the peculiar doctrines of "Rapture" and "Tribulation." Demonstrating how theological preconceptions guide the use of Bible texts, she explodes the myth of "literal interpretation" and highlights the importance of understanding history, context and literary genre. Flesher continues with a presentation of alternative readings of Daniel, Revelation, and other key Scriptures. Celebrating these texts as "resistance literature," designed to help Christians keep the faith in a hostile world, Flesher offers practical guidelines for appropriating their message in a post modern world.

Hmm. That's another one I can buy a few copies of for handy distribution. Oh very yes.

(And they have all kinds of things that look pretty tasty, to boot.)

Let's get this party started.

Triumph - 'Magic Power'

Triumph - 'Hot Time In This City Tonight'

Go get the album.

BTW.

TURN IT UP.

Well, the ones that matter to me at least.

US - OUT.
Australia - WON
Switzerland - Plays tomorrow.

*chuckles*

Well, the ones that matter to me at least.

US - OUT.
Australia - WON
Switzerland - Plays tomorrow.

*chuckles*

So yeah, I washed my hair last night - running late, I didn't get it done yesterday morning and by then? DEESGUSTING.

However, that means I went to bed with less than dry hair. You've seen how short it is right now.

Right. I got up this morning looking like Tidus.

*going to shower now*

There was once a time, when I worked in an office that had the radio station permanently set to the country station. I lived. Thankfully, it was in the day when Garth Brooks was doing well - and this new chick named Trisha Yearwood had just started releasing records.

Cleaning out the CDs to move them from jewel cases to wallets? Ran across one of the CD's I'd bought.

And the tune is a memory-smack between the eyes.

Trisha Yearwood - 'The Song Remembers When.'

It was then.

Hey, fill in the blank. You have a song for you that 'remembers when?'

There was once a time, when I worked in an office that had the radio station permanently set to the country station. I lived. Thankfully, it was in the day when Garth Brooks was doing well - and this new chick named Trisha Yearwood had just started releasing records.

Cleaning out the CDs to move them from jewel cases to wallets? Ran across one of the CD's I'd bought.

And the tune is a memory-smack between the eyes.

Trisha Yearwood - 'The Song Remembers When.'

It was then.

Hey, fill in the blank. You have a song for you that 'remembers when?'

One of the things I'm finding as I'm stripping CDs out of cases, is that I have some pretty ecletric stuff acquired through suggestions from others.

Like this album Tim Weisberg and Dan Fogelberg did the year I graduated from high school. 1978.

Damn thing sounds like it was done through a Valium haze. Not pot. Valium.

However, the title piece jumped out at me because I though shadesong's kid Elayne would appreciate the flute work - I've not heard it's like anywhere else. Someone playing a flute like a saxophone - the song itself is a snoozer otherwise:

Tim Weisberg, Dan Fogelberg, Twin Sons of Different Mothers, 'Twins Theme.'

And there is the wedding song from that year - 'Since You Asked.'

Yeah, Sis had that in her reception music from 1981.

You're supposed to be able to build new radio stations for Sims2 - if I ever figure it out, I've got a couple of good ideas for stations by aspiration. Augh.

You have no idea.

Honestly - I got tagged for the 5 weird quirks meme, and I have fifteen minutes to do it in. Heartsent called Wednesday, informed me that their director is going to be in town Friday and would we come in for our personal interview? You want me to come in - gee, let me think a moment about this....

Their offices are in converted Pasadena bungalows - go ahead. Throw me in the briar patch. Gwan.

Five quirks, huh?

1. Go ahead. Put a fried egg in front of me. I will neatly slice the white from yolk, eat the white first, and pop the entire yolk into my mouth, unbroken. I'm anal like that.

2. I am incredibly motion sensitive. I get rabidly seasick without medication, and I don't have a waterbed today because I get disoriented sleeping on them. Like, terrified disoriented. After two tries at this, I gave up sleeping on waterbeds. Loop coasters? The universe laughs at you. No. I really don't like heights and speed at the same time under the best circumstances - no, this little chickie-boo ain't gonna be an astronaut.

3. I have no phobias for anything living. That includes spiders, snakes, worms, rodentia...whatever. Freeway overpasses? Uh, do I really have to go that way?

4. I read faster than anyone I know. Test me.

5. Jim's here. Gotta go. Don't want to be late.