Peanute Butter Slices
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Shaft theme on the ukulele
The lyrics come in a little after the one minute mark which is the best part.
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Earliest reference describes Christ as ‘magician’
A team of scientists led by renowned French marine archaeologist Franck Goddio recently announced that they have found a bowl, dating to between the late 2nd century B.C. and the early 1st century A.D., that is engraved with what they believe could be the world’s first known reference to Christ.
If the word “Christ” refers to the Biblical Jesus Christ, as is speculated, then the discovery may provide evidence that Christianity and paganism at times intertwined in the ancient world.
The full engraving on the bowl reads, “DIA CHRSTOU O GOISTAIS,” which has been interpreted by the excavation team to mean either, “by Christ the magician” or, “the magician by Christ.”
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From Basic Instinct to Showgirls to Jesus
Conversion for Hollywood screenwriter Joe Eszterhas happened while sitting on a curb crying. And not just crying but also, to his shock, praying about his alcohol and nicotine addictions and his newly diagnosed throat cancer.
“And suddenly,†he writes in his compelling new book, Crossbearer: A Memoir of Faith (St. Martin’s Press; 2008), “my heart stilled. My nerve endings stopped torturing me. I stopped trembling and twitching. … Something happened to me on that hellish muggy day … I was saved.â€
It’s been more than seven years since then, but recently when I spoke by phone to Joe — creator of such sex-and-violence movies as “Basic Instinct†and “Jagged Edge†— it was clear his spiritual transformation wasn’t just a passing phase.
“There is a spirit in me that I’d never felt before,†he told me. “God opened up this formerly crusty, cynical heart.†Joe, his wife and children now are active members of a small Catholic church in a Cleveland suburb.
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Happy Birthday Krakatoa
Krakatoa, the St. Augustine Alligator Farm and Zoological ParkUs 75-pound, 7.5-foot long Komodo Dragon, celebrates his eighth birthday with fellow eight-year-olds from R.B. Hunt Elementary School Wednesday morning, October 1, 2008.
The children sang Happy Birthday to the large lizard as he was presented with a meat cake topped with mice.
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It took WifeGeeding three tries to get it right
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Baby Preacher
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Southern Baptists back Palin despite view on women’s role
RALEIGH, N.C. — Within the nation’s largest Protestant denomination, a woman may not lead a church or a home. But prominent Southern Baptists see nothing wrong with Sarah Palin serving as vice president — or perhaps even commander-in-chief someday.
In other words: A woman can run the White House, just not her own house.
Republican presidential nominee John McCain’s selection of the Alaska governor as his running mate — the first female on the party’s ticket in history — has thrilled conservative Christians. It also has led Southern Baptist congregations and seminary students to confront their beliefs about the role of women in leadership.
Interpreted from Scripture, the teachings on women are held close in thousands of Southern Baptist Convention churches where millions worship. Among them: “The office of pastor is limited to men,” and a wife should “submit herself graciously” to her husband. Earlier this month, more than 100 Lifeway Christian Bookstores — a retail chain affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention — pulled from the shelves a magazine featuring five female pastors on the cover.
Yet many in the denomination say the nation’s second-highest leadership post is an apple to the pulpit’s orange. Palin’s potential work in a McCain administration — or even as president in the event of McCain’s death — would be separate from her family life with her husband, Todd, and their children.
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Canned Bacon
A.V. Club opens and eats a can of bacon with video to prove it.
Read about and watch the event here.
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