If as Andy Warhol says, “everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes,” I may have just eleven and a half minutes left; my younger daughter, about 14:45. 
I got the opportunity to read yesterday’s blog post on the air and across the world on Issues, Etc.’s live celebration of their anniversary. For two-thirds of the reading, things were going reasonably well, when Twin #2 came downstairs and wanted to swing. I excused myself from the broadcast, guided her back upstairs, and finished the reading. Such is live radio. This is why Time Out is pre-recorded.
I discussed the incident with a couple of others who had been on the show before. Frank suggested that next time that happens, I should shout, “Go back upstairs, and study your catechism!”
Thanks, Pr. Wilken and Jeff, for having me on. It was a hoot.
The reading came after the first break, at 14:31.
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June 30, 2008, was the resurrection of Issues, Etc., over the internet on Pirate Christian Radio. Congratulations to Pastor Wilken, Jeff Schwarz, Chris Rosebrough, and all their supporting staff.
I was first turned on to Issues, Etc., by then-seminarian Steven Parks, back when IRC was the king of social networking and Facebook was limited to Ivy League schools. The show continues to teach that what you believe matters, first and foremost for your salvation but also in your dealings with your neighbor.
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Text: 2 Corinthians 5. Hymns: 655, Lord Keep Us Steadfast in Thy Word, and 672, Jerusalem the Golden.
Organist: Mrs. Susie Singer, Zion Lutheran Church, Columbus, OH.
Our first Pirate Christian Radio podcaster to be conscripted into the Time Out soundbite is Pr. Bill Cwirla of The God Whisperers. Both Cwirla and Pr. Craig Donofrio do a great job, though once in a while they do earn that iTunes EXPLICIT flag. 
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Deacon Latif Haki Gaba, whose blog I enjoy reading because he heavily researches ancient traditions, recently wrote a post on The Sanctuary Lamp. Unfortunately he also includes some prescriptions that do not serve the Gospel.
In many church sanctuaries, a single candle is constantly lit. I was instructed that the candle served as a reminder of God’s presence in that particular holy place. I was also told recently of a second meaning: that the Lord’s Supper is served there. Both are salutary interpretations.
The Roman Catholic Church, Deacon Gaba tells us, lights the candle when there are consecrated leftovers of the Lord’s Supper and extinguishes it when there are not leftovers. Where there are no consecrated elements, there is no Jesus, the tradition says. Deacon Gaba says we should adopt this interpretation and this practice with the candle. I disagree.
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I happened to see my neighbor who had previously offered to mow my lawn. I asked him whether he had done it, and he said he had.
He is trying to sell his house, and some people who were interesting in his house had looked over at our yard and thought we were being foreclosed on. We have a small front yard, easily buzzable in 15 minutes, so he thought it less trouble that dealing with questions. He said he had knocked on the front door first.
The relevance of our “foreclosure” to who could be our future neighbors was strange in itself, but here’s where it gets crazier. He had mowed our yard an inch shorter than his. When I asked why the difference in height, he said, “because if I mowed my yard at that level, the grass would cook.”
But that height (or lack thereof) was good enough for my yard?
I just may need a sign. Or one of those real estate displays with the little cards that explain what is going on, so that my neighbor would not need to.
The homeowners association sent a newsletter to us wanting us to get out more and meet more of the people in my neighborhood. That might be a fine idea, if we were all normal! Peace.
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One of the reasons my post frequency is down is because I use Twitter to share links of what I think is important as well as advertise Time Out on Pirate Christian Radio. Some people choose to “tweet” what they’re listening to or announce that they HAVE THE NEW IPHONE 3GS OMG!!!! or other crazy things that aren’t the most useful to everyone else. Twitter is intended to be a simple tool: you answer one question, “What are you doing?” It’s a one-line quick advertising channel.
Twitter has a “reply” feature, and the temptation is there to carry on a conversation in Twitter. I’m guilty, and I need to stop. Twitter isn’t the best place to have a conversation: the 140-character limit is too small, and it’s too easy to come in to the middle of a conversation.
Blogs aren’t going away just yet. Perhaps we ought to revive such things to bring conversations out of the Twitter firehose. Don’t use facebook; that gets blocked by corporate firewalls.
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