May the Fourth be With You! (But see also the Imperial attack ad against this holiday)
Lobster Baptists
April 20, 2013 By 1 Comment
Actually, there are so many puns and transfers of symbols I can think of. Baptism as symbolic of having been boiled and raised again from the pot. They will know we are crustaceans by our love….
Spring Break Photo
March 21, 2013 By 2 Comments
Last week was Spring break at Butler University, and so I thought I’d share a spring break photo with you. Here it is: But seriously, my Spring “break” was anything but – neither Spring nor break, unless you count my wife breaking her foot! How was your Spring break? Or is yours still in the [...]
U2charist
March 16, 2013 By 2 Comments
On the Friday before Spring break, my class on the Bible covered the Psalms, and so the U2 song “40″ got a mention. I was apparently the only one there who had ever sung the song in church. I hope that at some point my church may hold a U2charist service. (Yes, that really is [...]
Happy Valentinus Day
February 12, 2013 By 1 Comment
A pun on the name of the famous Gnostic teacher Valentinus, made by a commenter on a recent post, led me to think that there ought to be Gnostic Valentines for Valentine’s Day - or should that be Valentinus Day? Here are a few I came up with: No, they are not supposed to be taken seriously. [...]
The Four Horses of the Snowpocalypse
February 11, 2013 By 2 Comments
These horses were actually sculpted in China – read the story here. But for some reason when I was shown the photo, I thought, four horses, four horsemen, snowpocalypse (recent blizzard in New England) and it all sort of came together.
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