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I keep getting these spam E-mails advertising “Savory Cookies.” Excuse me, what kind of cookies? I prefer cookies to be sweet, not savory. What are they made from? Beef? Asparagus? I guess they saw the word “savory” in some other advertisement for food and didn’t bother to find [...]

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Wife test posting here. Setting up Know Tea’s sideblog. ‘Cause I lurve him and he neeeeeeds me to do it for him.

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Today at breakfast, my children were asking me what I thought was the worst TV Christmas Special ever. One of them voted for the one where Angela Lansbury is a nun and there’s a little blind shepherd boy who wants snow on Christmas or something like that. Our oldest voted for “The Year [...]

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You need to see this.
You can also follow the links to previous bad nativities and other goodies.
HT to Andy.

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First of all, if you have not read Laurel Mass?’s recent post about this season, you need to go read it, now.
Yesterday was the Second Sunday of Advent, and one of the hymns we sang yesterday was “People, Look East.” The text is by the English poet Eleanor Farjeon (1881-1965), who is probably best [...]

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Maybe you do, too . . .

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I drove past the Shrine of the Blessed Giant Penguin yesterday and the BGP had been flattened.
I hope this was not a case of vigilantism on? the part of a Know Tea reader.

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Mary, and Joseph, and the baby lying in a manger, and the GIANT PENGUIN!
At least that’s the scene on the front lawn of a house not far from our church.
I wonder what translation they are using?? The RSV, NRSV, and ESV don’t have anything about the giant penguin . . .

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And this is from eight years ago.
Yes, for those who ask, we will be decorating for Christmas before Christmas, as Advent is a season of preparation.? I wish we had tons o’ lights to put up outside, as Advent is a season of lights (as the author of the above article rightly observes).
But if you’re [...]

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Mark Roberts has some great thoughts for Advent today.
If you go to Wal-Mart at all this season, you will have plenty of opportunities to put the spiritual exercise Mark talks about into practice.
BTW have you seen Wal-Mart’s commercials this season?? “We’re opening up more lanes than ever.”? Right.? Yesterday they had all of one lane [...]

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