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If you listen to people like Bill O’Reilly and/or listen to Christian radio (and I’m going to assume there’s a whole lot o’ overlap there), you’re used to hearing about the “war on Christmas” this time of year, every year.
This year, American Family Radio (a Christian radio network based in Tupelo, MS) published its “naughty [...]

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As some of you know, we are planning a big trip in December of this year.  Usually, the only big trips we all take are to my parents’ house, which is a 7-8 hour drive (that includes our frequent stops) and lodging at their house.  Because of the length of this trip, there will be [...]

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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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Did I spell that correctly?
Things have been pretty heavy around here for the past several days.  Dealing with a lot of things.  Sorry about the paucity of blogitude on here lately.  Thank you so much for those of you who have written to inquire how we are doing.  I appreciate it.  I appreciate you.  And [...]

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The New York Times claims to have “all the news that’s fit to print.”  Well, this won’t be the first time a retraction is in order from that venerable publication.
The Grey Lady caused True Southerners all over this great nation of ours to reach for their collective Smellin’ Salts a few weeks ago with this [...]

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I love Palm Sunday.? I brought some of the palms home the other day (they arrived Tuesday and are in the fridge at the church) so the girls could make palm crosses, which they love to do.? Our oldest has been making palm crosses since she was four, so she’s really good at it by [...]

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If you’re making matzo balls for chicken soup, and you’re using chicken stock in them instead of water, reduce the amount of salt from 1 teaspoon to 3/4 teaspoon and they will be just perfect.? Harry gobbled them up just now at lunch, and the very ill-in-bed wife (for whom I made the chicken soup, [...]

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I came across an older post by Jollyblogger today that makes reference to an Os Guinness article about “copycat Christianity, especially as expressed in the phenomenon of “Christian” T-shirts (because, you know, the shirt itself got saved).? Read the post.
Jollyblogger makes this statement near the end of his article:? “I have never come to the [...]

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I wrote the other day about the Harry-haters.  Yesterday at the home-school coöp, a girl in my nine-year-old son’s class, who has previously called him a “Satan worshiper” because he likes the Harry Potter books, told him, “Presbyterians are just Satan worshipers who put Bibles in their churches to fool everybody.”  Lovely.
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I’m back after a long absence. I hope you are having a wonderful Christmas.
Yes. Present tense. Are having. Not “had”. Today is the Eleventh Day of Christmas. Tomorrow is the Twelfth Day of Christmas. Sunday will be Epiphany (when we commemorate the arrival of the Magi or Wise [...]

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