October 31st, 2004 at 5:46 pm
Trepidation first:
The Washingon Redskins lost. Here’s my question, though: The Redskins toward the end of the game had a touchdown taken away from them because the officials called an “illegal procedure” penalty, and that turned the game for Green Bay. Will Kerry win because the lawyers get involved, crying illegal procedure, and turn the game?
Good things:
It was the first time in a long time that I had sung in a church choir. My vocal range normally spots me as a “Tenor 2″ in choir lingo; higher than a baritone, lower than Art Garfunkel. Today, though, the church choir in Longview had five men, all tenors. In every other choir I have been in, the tenors are usually outnumbered by basses 3 to 2 or worse. I volunteered for the bass line, but nobody else did. A 4-to-1 tenor-to-bass ratio is usually hard to balance, but I was told that I held my own.
The last Sunday in October is also Reformation Sunday, where most Protestant churches celebrate the 15th-century efforts of Martin Luther to reform the Catholic church’s teachings to come closer to what St. Paul had taught in the Bible. Luther’s greatest gift to the world, in my opinion, was to advocate the translation of the Bible and religious texts into the common vernacular. No longer could priests, cardinals, and a pope control that information, and thus could no longer teach things contrary to the Bible as if it came from the Bible. We now have access to that same information, and nobody can bend the Word without critique to service their own goals.
“The promise is for you and your children.” (Acts 2:39)
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