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Via Tim Stevens, pastor at Granger Community Church

One of the quotes I’ll be sharing is from the book Movies that Matter: Reading Film Through the Lens of Faith by Richard Leonard. The first 25 pages is worth the price of the book. Mr. Leonard, a Jesuit priest with a PhD in Film and Theology (wow, what a combination!), says the following…

“Given the power of media, becoming conversant with its mixed messages is an essential tool for Christian life. This involves the process of inculturation—discovering where Christ is already active within a given culture. Inculturation has traditionally been about uncovering Christian resonances in faraway places and exotic rituals. Yet the risen Christ sends us out to our media-saturated culture as well, and in it we labor with Christ to expose the signs of God’s saving love already present there. We cannot speak to a culture we do not know or one we despise…we have to learn its language and discover how Christ has already gone ahead of us, inculturated in some of media’s values, stories and style.”

"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."
- Douglas Adams

“If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can’t it get us out?” – Will Rogers (1879-1935)

Surely, Keith Richards is a missing member of Spinal Tap.

In what can only best be described as either the hallucinations of a worn-out, road-weary, drug-saturated, wrinkled old rocker or the actual rock and roll truth, Keith Richards has confessed to snorting his father. Some may think he did this years ago during the heyday of the Stones, but no. His father died in 2002. Richards thought it might be a good idea to snort some coke mixed with his father’s ashes. I’m sure it sounded sane to him in the moment…

I’m disgusted, but amused. You have to wonder…has this ever been done before? Actually, no, I don’t want to know the answer.

It definitely seems like a deleted scene from This is Spinal Tap.

A day later, there’s this retraction. I don’t know if I believe it.

[brought to you by Ephedra, probably a drug Keith Richards has never used. Then again, I might be giving him too much credit.]

“I was an English major in college. If you ever get the chance to be an English major, do it! It opens so many doors to your future: with your English degree you can teach English! Or, also, starve!”

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I chose option #3. Marry up, then you stave off starving.