Looking back, I realize that I haven't posted a Thanksgiving sermon since the sermonette in 2011, and though I preached on this year's Thanksgiving Day lectionary on November 24th, I must confess that I didn't feel as confident in that sermon's worth ( Read more... )

I preached at both the English- and Spanish-language worship services again today, and I think the translation issues went a bit smoother this time.

( more about the bilingual worship experience )

In case anyone with a Kindle is looking for a new, more easily readable version of the New Testament (the Old Testament part of this translation is still being worked on, from what I hear), I just got an email about the availability of the new Common English Bible New Testament for a FREE Kindle download on Amazon until the Friday after next.

( pointless 'brag' about actually knowing someone who worked on this project . . . I think )

I probably won't get a chance to post tomorrow on the actual 25th anniversary of the airing of the first "MacGyver" episode in the U.S., so I figured I'd better lay my annual (and increasingly seedy-looking) tribute on the altar of my TV religion today.

So here it is (again), slightly revised (again): my "Ode on the Feast Day of St. MacGyver".( Read more... )

I got this email announcement -- which doesn't do anything for me since I'm still clinging desperately to paper books and refusing to do the e-books thing as yet -- and figured I'd pass it along to anyone who does happen to have a Kindle:
Adam Hamilton's new book When Christians Get it Wrong is available on Kindle for $.99 this week only.
I'm ( Read more... )

If anyone read the first 8 pages of Adam Hamilton's new book When Christians Get it Wrong, which are posted on-line as a sample, here's how that introductory chapter ends (pp. 16-18):

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I got an email last week informing me that DVD's of "Lord, Save Us From Your Followers" -- the very funny and very moving documentary I reviewed last September, but which had a far too limited theatrical release for most folks to even get a chance to see it -- are now available for sale:
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Adam Hamilton, one of the best-selling and most sensible (I think) authors writing for Abingdon Press, is coming out with a new book today, When Christians Get It Wrong.

Here's a small piece of the 8-page excerpt of the book that's available online, explaining some of how Hamilton came to write on this particular topic:( Read more... )

Just in case anyone missed it first time around, here's a revised version of my very positive review of the documentary "Lord, Save Us From Your Followers", now playing in limited release:( Read more... )

No news yet on whether I'll be one of the 'lucky ones' to get to keep my low-paying job (with health insurance!) -- in case I forgot to mention it earlier, the company has decided to eliminate two out of six positions at my level, and to do it 'fairly' by making all six of us jump through an apparently endless number of hoops, in order to justify ( Read more... )