Jesus
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This is a re-post of an article I wrote years ago on Mardi Gras and Lent. H0w familiar are you with the histories of these “holidays?” Today being Mardi Gras, why not refresh your memory of the who, what, when, where and why?
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Some trees are easy to identify by their fruit. Take orange trees, for example. An orange is… an orange. There just isn’t any fruit quite like it. Grapefruits are big, tangerines are small. But when those green orbs turn bright orange, there is no doubt about the fruit. Other trees are challenging.
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Paul’s imagery here is a mighty man of old — a warrior who is armed like Rambo — who walks to the front line of a confrontation and yells, “Come and take it!” Or of a line of warrior Scots “mooning” the English army in order to make a point. Think “burly” and not “girly.”…
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I was minding my own business the other week, eating some scrumptious tenders at my favorite local chicken joint when a familiar song came over the in-store radio. The song was “Imagine” by John Lennon, a campfire-esque kum-by-ya of hippie goodness. The song is widely considered one of Lennon’s best works (his best selling solo…
J.C. Newton 