Jean-Jacques Henner
Jesus at the Tomb
1879 Musee d'Orsay, Paris
"After the riotous crowds, first adoring, then hostile, after the screams and the suffering, there's the quiet of the tomb, and that looks at first like utter defeat.
"I’ve done several disappearing acts over the course of this blog’s life and while the explanations have been various, and the reasons multiple, the heart of it has always been this:Read the rest here.
Too much of the world.
It isn’t that the world and its people and its affairs are time-consuming or draining. It is just that I begin to feel accountable for all of it; for everything from simple social obligations to social justice issues. When I am looking outward it never takes very long for me to feel overwhelmed by all the things I should do, from commenting on friends’ blogs to writing a scathing reply to a fallacious and
offensive opinion piece.
I begin to feel trapped and defined by external machinations. I begin to feel less like myself. And then I become entirely ineffectual, both as the writer of this blog, and as, well, a human being.
The cacophany of my thoughts become crippling and and I start just… failing"
Luther: The Man of the Hour
A historically accurate re-actment.
Reformation Day Party Ideas. Yes, friends. These are real! The costume: Calvin and family. Because Luther is soooo yesterday. And everyone knows the REAL REFORMATION began with John Calvin. Here's some more great party ideas from Lutheranism 101.
Make a “Diet of Worms Cake” (using Gummy Worms)
A beef barbecue, also known as a Papal Bull Roast.
Play “Pin the 95 Theses on the Wittenberg Door”
Run a “Throw Indulgences in the Trash” relay
Have a special showing of the movie “Luther” at church or in your home.
I think the Papal Bull Roast might catch on in my backyard! And finally, I have some posters, sponsored by The Online Discernmentalist Mafia. These Truth War Motivators encourage all Protestants to fight the good faith!
So...I'll see you all at my Reformation Day Party! to celebrate this Protestant Fighter for Faith. And if you decline my invitation, you are an Unaustralian Pelagian and you shall never darken the door of my house again! Here I stand (sort of, leaning casually against my doorpost).
The Man of the Hour with his Coach
Father and Son
The Peanut Gallery: Half-time Entertainment
Half-Time Break: Father and Daughter
In Action
Done.
Dedicated to John Brown, his father's son and Faith's father.