Splat

Anybody seen this yet?

Real Live Preacher

Probably best to start at the beginning.

Wish more xians were this sensible. And fun.

Jobar

The man's prose approaches poetry.

People who love hot peppers surf the line between pain and pleasure for the endorphin rush.

It's the old "Velvet Elvis" paradox. How can someone skilled enough to paint a recognizable Elvis not know better than to paint on velvet?

What would Annie Dillard say about my writing? How would Karl Barth evaluate my theology? I've been loving my wife for 18 years, but do we really need to compare ourselves to the Kama Sutra?

I’ve spent a lot of my life trying to become better and better at what I DO. Somehow I thought my achievements might attract love. This has always been my fantasy. It’s a crazy fantasy because I’m not good enough to do anything worthy of love. I don’t think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love.

Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Fundamentalism makes for interesting television, doesn’t it? Hearing Jerry Falwell say that abortionists, pagans, and feminists (among others) caused the 9-11 disaster was nauseofascinating. Watching a man hold a sign that says, “God hates fags” is like watching film clips of the holocaust. Can such things be?

Oh, they be.

If you want to know about the Taliban, ask an Afghani woman. If you want to know about Christian fundamentalism, ask a Christian. Fundamentalists are more than interesting television for us. They are people with real power who harm our churches, destroy good.

Watching fundamentalism do its work is like watching the crucifixion over and over and over again.

Ultimately fundamentalists will consume their own young and gnaw at their own flesh. The way of anger always leads to consumption.

"Fuckin A, man. Fu-Kin-A."
I have found over the years that with some people, a well-placed "F-bomb" is the best pastoral move I can make. It's like a conversational "Ctrl-Alt-Delete". If nothing else works, just reboot and start over.

Wonder how this guy would make out here on II? I'm halfway tempted to ask him... I'd never go listen to one of his sermons though. I long ago declared that the only way I'd listen to a sermon where no one was getting married or buried, I would have to have a chance at a rebuttal.