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Hopewell Summer Bible School 2013

June 17-21 -- Build Your Life on Jesus -- "Bible Journey Series"

As it has been doing for many decades, Hopewell Mennonite Church is having Summer Bible School again.

This year’s edition is next week, June 17-21.

Our sign went up last night:

Maybe you call it Vacation Bible School

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Weapons-Grade Assault Food

I've led a sheltered life -- I had no idea.

First of all, I’ve led a sheltered life — I had no idea about triangular pancakes. 😳

Second of all, what’s to keep the aggressive “non-lambs” from cutting their altered flapjacks back into weapons-grade assault triangles? 😯

Third of all, here’s the story as I copied and pasted it: Read it all

Polymorphous Promiscuity Will Prevail

Why should paedophilia be wrong or illegal any more than are promiscuity, divorce, shacking up, and homosexuality?

For quite a while, I’ve had in mind to pose such a question to make this point: I expect paedophilia will be the new gay, though paedophiles will hijack their own mainstream term.

Give it a few years. Not that many. It won’t take that much longer.

Then Andrée and I (and you?) will have another scarlet letter pinned to us: P.

Paedophobe

Well, see what you make of this: Read it all

“My Heart Stopped”

"To the shock of many, the doctor restarted my heart."

To the shock of many,
the doctor restarted my heart.
–Steve Hall

America’s Forty-Year War

Roe v Wade -- genocide, civil war, choice, murder? All? None?

Looking back on this day in 1972:

The US Supreme Court precipitated America’s new civil war (pitting the born against the unborn) by delivering its Roe v. Wade decision, striking down laws restricting abortion during the first six to seven months of pregnancy. Thus America’s own genocide would kick into high gear.

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Toys Oppressive And Destructive to Young Children

I say, stick with conventional LEGO sets and minifigures. Forget the fancy sets, although the ____ looks fun.

TOADY for short, get it?

And the TOADY Award is “bestowed upon the year’s most exploitative (and downright worst) toy as determined by public vote.”

The year’s top worst?

A LEGO set. Read it all

Trouble and Tea Meet in Dorcas Smucker’s Teapot

I pour myself a cupload for the hilarity...and am not disappointed. Then I discover the life lessons...and am blessed.

Closing his devotional at a recent Hopewell business meeting, our former bishop remarked that he’d been reading a new book that afternoon and had a quote for us:

“The big decisions are the ones that transcend every place and relationship and job — integrity and kindness, mercy and generosity, love and joy and justice.”

When he concluded with “by Dorcas Smucker,” I knew which book he’d been reading. 🙂

A few days after that, I was chatting a bit with one of my high school Spanish students. She had just slipped back into school from her first round of chemo for Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. Read it all