{"id":1813,"date":"2005-11-18T07:20:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-18T07:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/orthodixie\/2005\/11\/loose-ends.html"},"modified":"2005-11-18T07:20:00","modified_gmt":"2005-11-18T07:20:00","slug":"loose-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/orthodixie\/2005\/11\/loose-ends.html","title":{"rendered":"Loose Ends &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>In \u2018Spain,\u2019 we were told of long-term missionaries, and we were told we would be able to sample \u201can Arab Christian church.\u201d I got all excited; I thought they meant an Arab Christian Church, not a Protestant church that happened to be in Arabic (and it was in Spanish, anyway!). The same vapid drivel that we coo at chapel was translated, and the folding chairs surrounding the guitarist with the Arabic Bibles casually placed under them reinforced the \u2018cultural barrier\u2019 idea I was developing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theosebia.blogspot.com\/2005_11_01_theosebia_archive.html#113194126468784042\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Catechumen\u2019s Walk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWherever there\u2019s injustice, oppression, and suffering, America will show up six months late and bomb the country next to where it\u2019s happening.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>(He he. Now come on now! That\u2019s funny, I don\u2019t care who you are.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:85%\">From P.J. O\u2019Rourke\u2019s <em>Peace Kills: America\u2019s Fun New Imperialism<\/em>.<br><\/span><br><em><span style=\"font-size:78%\">Stolen from <\/span><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/mail.publicradio.org\/site\/PageServer?pagename=reg_welcome\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><em><span style=\"font-size:78%\">The Writer\u2019s Almanac<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span style=\"font-size:78%\"> (11\/14).<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In \u2018Spain,\u2019 we were told of long-term missionaries, and we were told we would be able to sample \u201can Arab Christian church.\u201d I got all excited; I thought they meant an Arab Christian Church, not a Protestant church that happened to be in Arabic (and it was in Spanish, anyway!). 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