Chris Tilling has the scoop- and it’s news even to me! I guess I’ll start combing through the want ads or just zip down to the Wal-Mart tomorrow and get a job as a greeter…
Anyway, thanks, Chris, for telling me what no one else would. I’m glad they’re getting such a fine replacement.
Such things make no sense, but they go on.
Last week the High Court of Justice issued a temporary restraining order halting construction work by a Jewish organization in a Franciscan monastery on Jerusalem’s Mount Zion adjacent to the Cenaculum, the Latin term for the room where the Last Supper was held. The court also issued an order preventing the Jewish organization – the Institute for the Study of the Family and Family Laws in Israel – from moving people in to live in the monastery, known as the Franciscan house, just outside the Dormition Church.
Dude… there’s no way the room venerated as the site of the Last Supper was actually the site of the Last Supper. The building is far too late!!!!!!!!! And the location of that event is utterly unknown anyway!
No need to fight over it. Let folk live there. It’s not the place!
Fresh on the heels of the Church shooting in Knoxville a couple of weeks ago, today a school kid walked into his school and gunned down in cold blood a kid who went there.
A 16-year-old boy was shot dead by a second student Thursday in a school cafeteria in Knoxville, Tennessee, police said. The student suspected of killing the boy was arrested without incident on a nearby street six minutes after police received the report of the shooting at 8:11 am (1211 GMT). “This was not a shooting that was a random act,” William Roehl, deputy chief of the Knoxville, Tennessee police told reporters. “Both the suspect and the victim knew each other,” Roehl said at a press conference.
And again from AP
Police identified the victim as Ryan McDonald, a sophomore who lived with his grandmother and had alopecia, a condition that left him bald and the target of endless teasing as a child. “He tried to have a tough exterior, like a shield, to fit in,” his uncle Roger McDonald said. “He was a good kid … who was dealt some bad cards in life.” The shooting happened shortly after 8 a.m. at the Central High School cafeteria, Chief Deputy Bill Roehl said, and the suspected shooter was taken into custody minutes later on a nearby street. The suspect and victim knew each other, Knox County School System Superintendent Bill McIntyre said. Jamar Siler, 15, was charged with one count of first-degree murder and was being held in a juvenile court facility, police spokesman Darrell DeBusk said. Silar had an initial appearance in Juvenile Court late Thurday, but his lawyer, public defender Mark Stephens, refused to discuss the case.
Yup- easy access to guns. Death in a box. And evidently what our society desires else it would stomp its foot down and do something about it. Pray for the victim’s family. With the Prophet I lament, ‘How Long O LORD, how long…….???????’
Oh, and don’t worry! They still had football practice tonight at Central High in Knoxville where the murder took place. And the game is still on for tomorrow!!! Because THAT’S what matters!!!!!!!!!!!!
[Godless indifference and heartless cruelty indeed- but the game must go on].
Here’s his new blog address. By biscuit he means cookie. By sabbatical he means spate of laziness. So, enjoy! And nice to see you back Steve. We expect great things from you.
People who listen to religious radio shows like “Focus on the Family” are less knowledgeable about current events than the average American, according to a recent survey on media consumption by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press. Just 12 percent of regular listeners of religious radio could correctly identify which party now controls Congress, who is the current U.S. secretary of state and name the new prime minister of Great Britain. That is ahead of regular consumers of media like “Access Hollywood” and the National Enquirer but behind viewers of TV news magazines, morning news shows and network news. The national average is 18 percent, reports Ethics Daily. And this part of the report made me chuckle
People who view “fake” news shows like “The Daily Show” and “The Colbert Report” are better informed than readers of “real” news programs like “O-Reilly Factor” and “Lou Dobbs Tonight.” The highest knowledge of current events was found among readers of The New Yorker and The Atlantic (48 percent), NPR (44 percent), MSNBC’s “Hardball” (43 percent), and “Hannity & Colmes” at 42 percent.
People who listen to Bill O’Reilly and Lou(d) Dobbs aren’t all that bright anyway. Combine religious radio listeners with O’Reilly fans and you end up with pill popping addicts like Rush Limbaugh. As to religious radio- I’ve never been a fan. It’s all just too absurd and annoying what with the likes of Van Impe and Copeland and Dobson blathering along about things. I’ve been tempted to toss my radio out the window while listening to them in the past and of course if I did that I couldn’t enjoy NPR.
So who does listen to Van Impe and company?
Conservative Republicans represent the core audience for religious radio. Just 6 percent of the general public listens to religious radio on a regular basis, while 34 percent of conservative Republicans said they tune in regularly or sometimes. Women outnumber men among those who regularly listen to religious radio by more than 2-1. Sixty-nine percent of religious radio listeners are women, while just 31 percent are men.
But there’s some good news on the horizon
The influence of religious radio is on the decline. In the current survey 18 percent of Americans said they listen to religious broadcasts sometimes or regularly. That is down from 23 percent in 2006 and 26 percent in 2004.
Instead of getting their theology from the radio, they ought to get off the couch and get down to their local church where they can actually be involved in a community of faith rather than pretending adherence to a faith they only participate in at a distance.
The Emergent Pilgrim writes
What are we to do with such evil actions of a man supposed to be entrusted with the care and concern of Australian young people? For reasons unknown to us, he has, lied, manipulated, and received financial gain from this fraudulent claim. I cannot tell you how angry I am at this. Over the past twelve months I have buried two people from the same family who died of cancer, within a week of each other. Both died with faith and with dignity. In our church we have other people who are facing the frightening reality of cancer in its different forms. We have others who are battling with sickness and the distress of not knowing what will happen next. Nevertheless they all hold their belief in God closely and trust that God is with them even though they walk through the valley of the shadow of death. What Mike Guglielmucchi did cheapened their (and all of those with cancer) suffering. What he did was repulsive and cheapened the very nature of the vocation I (and many others) have committed our lives to.
Well said! Such deception is beneath depraved. Read E.P.’s whole essay. You might even agree with his closing paragraph. And I might too. Tomorrow.
