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Trick-or-Treating has died down now at the house.  Actually, the doorbell just rang as I was typing that first sentence, but it’s after 8:30 p.m., we have unplugged the orange Halloween lights on the porch, turned off the porch light and the other lights on the front of the house, thus signalling that the candy [...]

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There.  That got your attention, didn’t it?  Well, I saw an example of it last night.
Job #2, as many of you know, is at a restaurant.  I work three shifts a week, and whereas I was a delivery person last go-around, this time I am up front most of the time:  running the register, greeting [...]

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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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Mississippi State beat Vanderbilt yesterday, and there was much rejoicing.
But that’s not what I want to get clear.  It’s this:
Vanderbilt is not an “Ivy League” school.  I don’t know who started that, but I’ve heard it bandied about by several people (all Vandy people).  Vanderbilt has never been an Ivy League school.
For one thing, it’s [...]

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I was just reading about this year’s Golden Spurtle winner.  Now I want some porridge.
I love me some porridge.  Here are some fun facts about porridge.  (Unlike Late Show Fun Facts, these are actually factual, to the best of my knowledge.)

According to tradition, porridge should only be stirred with a spirtle, not a spoon, as [...]

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Hermeneutics.  It’s not a word most people throw around every day, but it’s a very important concept nonetheless.
This week, I had to respond to a letter in which lots o’ Scripture was quoted at me.  Ever get one of those?  The first thing I had to do was try to figure out the hermeneutic at [...]

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Our Prayer of Adoration for World Communion Sunday this morning was adapted from a passage from the Didache:
As this broken bread was scattered over the mountains,
And was gathered together to become one,
So let Your Body of Faithful be gathered together
From the ends of the earth into Your kingdom;
for the glory and power are Yours forever.
This [...]

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In Preparation for World Communion Sunday.  From the web site of the Food Bank of Northeast Louisiana.
Myth: They are not hungry. They are fat!
Fact: This is called the Obesity Paradox. The population that is forced to live on cheap, starchy foods are, in many cases, fat. In some cases they are morbidly obese. They [...]

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“In Northeast Louisiana over 60,000 children are enrolled in free and reduced lunch.  The BackPack Program allows children to bring home nutritious food when other resources are not available, such as on the weekends or during school vacations. BackPacks are filled by volunteers with child-friendly, non-perishable, and vitamin fortified food. The backpacks are then discreetly [...]

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