Muslims Worshiping Inside A Christian Church

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Somewhat jokingly, I can see a lot of my “Baptist to the core” friends biting their lip or pounding their fists on their desks as they read this. (They’d never admit they were Baptist to the core, but would say they are Christian to the core.)

First, you see over 300 Muslims celebrating Ramadan inside a Christian (Episcopal) church. Second, this is in the nation’s capital. Third, you learn that the pastor of the Christian church is female.

A couple sections from the article:

  • “It’s our job to be the hands and feet of peace in the world, and how do we do that is by loving one another,” the Rev. Elizabeth Gardner said.
  • “Look, look at that,” he said, pointing out a stained glass window showing Jesus. “I’m not Christian, I look at that. That’s beautiful.”

If you’d rather not watch the video, you can read the article here.

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Bag of Randomness for Friday, July 1, 2016

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  • Those are the fur-children of GeedingManor. And I woke up to this chaos the other morning.

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This woman’s facial expression reminded me of this guy.

Speaking of “doppelgänger”, Donovan shared a funny story with Craig Miller on The TICKET. Donovan’s wife, Twiggy, thought a guy on a commercial looked like Craig and told her husband, “Donovan, look, it’s Craig’s dingleberry.”

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Fighter Pilot Ejects At Supersonic Speed

From Jalopnik:

In a training exercise gone wrong back in 1989, Capt. Brian Udell had to eject from his F-15 travelling at supersonic speeds. The force of the air on his body was so strong that it nearly killed him. Here is Udell explaining what happened.

The wind tore his helmet off, broke every blood vessel in his head and face, dislocated his left elbow so that it was pointed backwards and snapped both of his legs in half. His lips were so swollen that they “fit into the first three fingers of [his] hand.”

His weapons officer had ejected with him, but only Udell survived what remains the highest speed ejection from a U.S. fighter aircraft.

On top of that, he spent four hours lost at sea before the Coast Guard rescued him and later is devasted to learn his navigator died.

When he starts to talk about his will to live to see his pregnant wife and to be there for the birth of his first child, I can’t help but think of Cougar in Top Gun “lost the edge”.

In case you are wondering what the pilot is doing nowadays, he’s a pilot for Southwest Airlines.

 

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