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Over the weekend we went and visited our Russian daughter who is starting her PhD in Chicago. One of our main and favorite stop was at the Art Institute on Michigan Ave. What you see in these pictures includes figures such as John of Patmos, Job, Peter and the girl who recognized him at Caiphas’…

In the wake of the huge response to the previous rock n’ roll posts, I offer the list of the ten best concerts I have seen and would love to have captured on my reel to reel recorder. Of course everyone will have a different list since we haven’t all gone to the same concerts.…

—- N.B. I continue to work away on my two volume NT Theology, entitled The Indelible Image. Here is a preliminary sampling from the second volume where I am pulling together the threads and looking at topics in a holistic and Biblical theology kind of way. Let me know what you think. BW3 ELECTION IN…

It was a hot steamy day, and I was in Woolworth’s going through the now marked down 45’s (for those of you who are technology challenged those were really small records that played at 45 revolutions per minute). I found the one I was looking for, which was, the Who’s “I Can See for Miles”.…

All of us must make a livingEven on a holiday week,I had my family to think of,Our finances looked pretty bleak. But on that day I made a huge errorWorking down Golgotha wayAnd here comes a Roman processionRuining my whole day. For I am but a carpenterWho works beside Zion’s door,I couldn’t help being draftedThough…

—————A few caveats about this category: 1) we are going to include folk-rockers, country-rockers, and pop-rockers in this list because we aren’t doing another one. This is not a list of the best rock and roll bands (that’s for a later post), but of the best writers of songs sung by various kinds of rockers;…

Let’s start with the big three who ALL played in the Yardbirds in the 60s (though not all at the same time) 1) Eric Clapton2) Jimmy Page and3) Jeff Beck To these we must of course add quite a few others who could ‘bring it’ on any given night. 1) Pete Townsend2) Jimi Hendrix3) Eddie…

————-Britain is Repossessing the U.S.A. —-A Message from John Cleese To the citizens of the United States of America: “In light of your failure to nominate competent candidates for President of the USA and thus to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the revocation of your independence, effective immediately.” “Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth…

N.B. The following is an excerpt from a book I am working on, on Money in the NT. Enjoy…..but take off your bling while reading it 🙂—————————- CHAPTER SEVEN: PAUL—ON WORK, REMUNERATION, AND THE LOVE OF MONEY “The rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than…

O.K., I did not see this story coming. It seems that in a desperate attempt to capture the Italian beach going public in August, nuns and priests are now transporting an inflatable ‘convent’, which blows up to 98 feet in length (now that’s a lot of hot holy air) to the beach where persons can…
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