Sorry, I just couldn’t help it…
“…So I just copped out and became a Unitarian Universalist.”
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And don’t even get me started about this one!
To see the whole slide show, just go to the homepage of Ventura’s very own Unitarian Universalist Church and just keep hitting reload. There are a whole […]
Oh my gosh, this little gem deserves a grammy or something!! haha
When the sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices, so that they might go and anoint him. And very early on the first day of the week, when the sun had risen, they went to the tomb. They had been saying to one another, “Who will roll […]
When I survey the wondrous cross on which the Prince of Glory died,
My richest gain I count but loss, and pour contempt on all my pride.
Forbid it, Lord, that I should boast, save in the death of Christ, my God;
All the vain things that charm me most, I sacrifice them to his blood.
See, from his […]
While they were eating, Jesus took a loaf of bread, and after blessing it he broke it, gave it to the disciples, and said, “Take, eat; this is my body.” Then he took a cup, and after giving thanks he gave it to them, saying, “Drink from it, all of you; for this is my […]
Эти бедные селенья,
Эта скудная природа–
Край родной долготерпенья,
Край ты русского народа!
Не поймет и не заметит
Гордый взор иноплеменный,
Что сквозит и тайно светит
В наготе твоей смиренной.
Удрученный ношей крестной,
Всю тебя, земля родная,
В рабском виде Царь небесный
Исходил, благословляя.
—Федор Иванович Тютчев
These poor villages,
this sorry nature!
Long suffering is native to you,
land of our Russian people!
The proud foreign glance
cannot comprehend – would not […]
At that very hour some Pharisees came and said to him, “Get away from here, for Herod wants to kill you.” He said to them, “Go and tell that fox for me, ‘Listen, I am casting out demons and performing cures today and tomorrow, and on the third day I finish my work. Yet today, […]
I stole the title of the post from the title of this CNN article, which is about how poorly R- and NC17-rated movies are doing. If you read the article, you’ll notice that the only people they talked to were movie theater owners, studio execs, and the like — all “industry insiders.” You’d think someone […]
Jesus wasn’t just a hapless victim of the evil machinations of a religious elite intent on retaining their petty positions of power over the poor and unfortunate. He was bringing the fight to the arch-fiend himself, the ruler of this evil dominion of darkness and death.