Pitch a Hallmark version of a movie or film genre.
Saving Private Ryan's Christmas: A crack team of Army Rangers search 1944 France to deliver a home-style Christmas to Private Ryan.
"She looked me over
And I guess she thought I was all right
All right in a sort of a limited way
For an off-night"
-Paul Simon, "I Know What I Know"
How incredible will Heaven's Bach/Handel/Haydn original collaborative Christmas album be?
Fictional vehicle models you don't want to ride in:
Mazda Miasma
Infiniti Stone
Ford Exploder
Honda Oddity
What is something you ought to be doing in your life that you're not? What do you need to change in order to build a better habit?
Time for my annual reminder that, when you're being thankful, it requires someone that you feel gratitude to. Someone has provided what you are thankful for, whether another person or God. Happy Thanksgiving!
There is a lot of overlap between "you deserve" and "you earn." Generally, we reap what we sow.
Miss the point of the movie or book in one sentence:
Ghost: She's just trying to finish her pottery and this guy keeps getting in the way.
Pre-order big Lego set. Lego releases gift-with-purchase a few weeks later. Cancel pre-order. Re-pre-order to get gift-with-purchase.
What do you love more than you should?
Did you hear about the meditative cowboy? He sang, "Om, om on the range...."
Give me some trite advice.
Sharks or no sharks?
“In our Western civilization we are obligated both morally and intellectually to come to grips with Jesus Christ; if we refuse to do so we are guilty of being bad philosophers and bad thinkers.” -C.S. Lewis, God in the Dock, p. 294
“The distinction between natural and supernatural broke down; and when it had done so, one realized how great a comfort it had been, how it had encouraged the mind never to think of both in the same context.” -C. S. Lewis, "Perelandra"
If you could commute to work by palanquin or sedan chair, would you?
“Real Christianity and consistent Atheism both make demands on a man. To admit all of the comfort of one without its discipline- to enjoy all of the liberty of the other without its philosophical & emotional abstinences- may be honest, but it’s no good pretending it’s uncomfortable.” -C.S. Lewis, “Revival or Decay?”
It's International Games Month at the library, that time of year when my job is to play games with people in the library.
@LouisIngenthron I'm happy to review your sources on this topic. As you look for sources, you may find the drive of Protestants to enable all to read the Bible in their own language led to a large push for broad literacy education. You may find the Reformation postdates serfdom in most areas. You may find the abolition of slavery in many countries was driven by Christians, and that slavery was justified by many who were not Christians. You may find that Protestants advocated for tolerance of minority sects (including themselves) in Roman Catholic-controlled areas, and in the founding of areas such as the colony of Pennsylvania. You may find that war and death have been fairly consistent factors in human existence, with little correlation with the dominant religion of an area.
I'm happy to consider your evidence; I ask you to consider my statements above.
506 years ago, the Protestant Reformation began. This movement, and other Christian movements, brought literacy, education, health care, religious tolerance, and human rights throughout the world.
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