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Of Seminary Papers, Blogging, and Footnotes

By wyman on 2/27/2009 12:44 PM

Interesting.

I just noticed that Colien Duriez, in his 2008 Francis Schaeffer: An Authentic Life, references an old seminary paper I posted at the old address entitled "Francis Schaeffer and the Pro-Life Movement" as a footnote on p.182 of his book. Which is to say...

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Ash Wednesday...humor?!

By wyman on 2/26/2009 11:38 AM

Yes. I know. We need to tread lightly here.

I did not participate in an Ash Wednesday service this year, though I did last year (at the Methodist church, of course). I personally see great value in the observance of Ash Wednesday and in dark recesses of the night I secretly wish I could observe it with my fellow Baptists (shhhhhhhh! Don't tell anybody!). So I'm not trying to be disrespectful here, but I just thought that an e-card that one of the guys posted at The Boar's Head today was pretty funny.

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Marriage Advice For Men

By wyman on 2/24/2009 10:47 AM

Primarily for idiot men...which includes many of us.

Enjoy!

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Our Church's New Covenant

By wyman on 2/23/2009 9:47 AM

Last night the First Baptist Church of Dawson adopted a new church covenant. This is the culmination of a process that began last year. We are looking to have the covenant play a larger role in how we accept members and how we as a church renew ourselves in Christ-likeness each day. Here it is.

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Imago Dei

By wyman on 2/22/2009 4:19 PM

My convictions concerning the sanctity of life from conception to death are not primarily ethical or political in nature.

They are theological.

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Let It Be Clear That We Are Not Clear

By wyman on 2/21/2009 8:03 AM

I was scrolling through some old selections of Neuhaus' "While We're At It" and came across this gem that I clipped some years back. It's a great example of how a lack of clarity in speech, especially in the area of theology, can get us in a fix.

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William Zantzinger Is Dead

By wyman on 2/20/2009 1:42 PM

Strange.

This morning I was listening to Bob Dylan's 1964 song, "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll." It's a fascinating, disturbing, and heartbreaking song about the murder of a black barmaid at the hands of a drunken young man (Zantzinger) in 1963 in Baltimore. The song explores this crime and, in one of the more powerful moments you'll ever hear in a song, Dylan builds to the tragic crescendo by revealing that Zantzinger was sentenced to only 6 months in jail.

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