This week we have a guest post from one of our vestry members, Alli Evans, who got to visit the GAFCON church-plant in Japan with whom we are developing a missional relationship: OMSA….
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Carnival: Count-down to Lent
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“Carnival” today often conjures-up the worst images of Mardi Gras celebrations: drunkenness, debauchery, sequin-laced costumes, gaudy masks in diamante, etc. Unmoored from the Gospel Carnival loses its Christian origin and becomes little more than a kind of sad “last hoorah” before the severities of Lent, a Barnum and Bailey inspired revolt against the upcoming sobriety. Carnival and Mardi Gras have become in their modern forms the epitome of what Guy Debord criticizes in The Society of the Spectacle…
Read moreA brief note on the first episode of the new "Penguin" series
Rachel and I were talking with Trevor and Sierra and they told us that they had been watching the new “Penguin” series and that they were impressed with the quality of it. For those who don’t know, the series traces the rise of the batman villain Oswald Cobblepot, aka “The Penguin.” I thought I’d give the first episode a try when I found that my one-month trial prime membership allows me to access the show.
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