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8:45 a.m. — I am sitting in the car, in our neighbors’ driveway.  Our oldest is taking care of their dog while they’re gone for Thanksgiving, and since it was raining this morning I drove her down instead of making her walk.  (Because I’m so nice.)  Anyway, while she’s inside taking care of the dog, [...]

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Saturday Night Live could not have come up with something this funny.  The best part is, it’s for real!
I’m pretty safe in assuming that no one over at the Lawrence Welk Show knew what the word “toke” meant.

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My four-year-old just walked into the kitchen, saying this:
“We were at the beach . . . everybody had matching towels . . . “

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Not the SNL sketch:  just an update on my weekend at SU’s Homecoming.
UPDATED UPDATE – Samford has a great slide show from Homecoming weekend here.
This was the very first Homecoming I’ve been able to attend in 19 years.  Yep, it’s been 19 years since I graduated.
It was wonderful.  It could have been more wonderful, had [...]

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No, not the hurricane.  Holst.
Tomorrow marks the 134th anniversary of the birth of Gustav Holst (1874-1934).  As Tim Horn well knows, Holst was born in Cheltenham, England and attended the Cheltenham Grammar School as a child.
Why not listen to The Planets today in his honor?

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Thanks to Finale, I’ve been working on a number of items for our congregational worship, such as setting texts from Christopher L. Webber’s A New Metrical Psalter to familiar hymn tunes.  (We’ve been using this Psalter a good deal, but since it’s words only I’ve been printing the words, with the tune above it.  This [...]

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This is generally regarded as a Lenten hymn, but 1) things feel a little Lenten around here right now, and 2) the last two stanzas (which are almost never included by hymnal editors) take a little of the Lenten-ness out of the hymn.

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Allison Twigg, who used to be Allison White, who used to be Allison-White-Jeff-Stith’s-cousin (well she still is Jeff Stith’s cousin: it’s just that when she first came to SU everyone called her that as a point of reference, to the extent that it sort of became her unofficial name), sent me a link to this [...]

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My friend Andy Jones is talking about Psalmody over here, particularly that particularly particular Presbyterian/Reformed rarity known as exclusive Psalmody.  Andy makes this observation:
The primary problem with exclusive psalmody is that it forbids making mention of Jesus in your singing, which seems to run counter to every joyful note of the New Testament. Yes, the [...]

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I’ve written before about that “You must not love Jesus” look I always get when I tell people I don’t like to listen to “Christian music” (because, you know, the music itself got saved and has a personal walk with Jesus every day).  It’s not entirely true, of course, that I don’t like to listen [...]

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