Know Tea

Watching PBS, which these days apparently stands for “Pander Broadcasting System.” These “specials” they run during begging week now are about as public-television-worthy as the Star Wars Holiday Special.? I’d better not say that too loudly:? they’ll be running that one next time if I’m not careful!
Right now it’s Sarah Brightman singing (what else?) music [...]

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The name of this blog is Know Tea, but I don’t really talk about tea that much, do I.
That’s not because I don’t care about tea. I care deeply about tea. And a decent cup of tea is darned hard to find, lemme tellya.
Aside: About the blog title–or those of you who [...]

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Because the Harry Haters and Chick Tract distributors seem to be working overtime these days, here’s a blast from the past for you:
Seasonal “Favorites” from CBD.
Enjoy.? In a strange, unenjoyable way.

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I make it a policy never to vote for anyone who says “repasennative.” If you can’t properly say they name of the office you’re seeking, you don’t need to be running.

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Here is a copy of the E-mail I sent today to American Family Radio. As many dear readers of this blog will no doubt know, I have a love/finding it hard to love relationship with AFR–because we’re not supposed to hate, are we? I love the fact that we have a [...]

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I feel as if I’ve known you for such a long time. Maybe that’s because I was in line behind you for approximately 12 minutes today, Keisha. It was there that I learned your name, because it was emblazoned across the vanity tag of your brand-new, shiny black Ford Expedition with the gold frame around [...]

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Lest some of you non-Presbyterian readers think we Presbyterians are a homogeneous bunch, (Hoo-boy! I won’t even touch that line!) rest assured the influence of latter-day Gnosticism is felt in many Presbyterian churches too. A couple of years ago, as a matter of fact, I had interviewed with a PCA church in NC [...]

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OK, for those of you who know, today was extremely, ahem, challenging. Therefore, I do not wish to discuss it at present. Perhaps tomorrow.
What I do wish to discuss is this story that was reported earlier today on Morning Edition.
First of all, either the readers of Batman comics are much older than when [...]

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I am no longer allowing my children to listen to Christian radio, unless and until we get a Christian radio station other than AFR.
(And I say this as the pastor of the church that houses the AFR station in town.)
Now I know what many of you are saying. “It’s the music, right?” Well, I [...]

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cafe mama offers this advice:

Referring to another blogger, without reference to a specific post: When you want to mention a “friend” or other fellow blogger, it is courteous to adding a hyperlink behind their name or the name of the blog. The link should be the front page unless you are mentioning the name in [...]

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