Help my foot's on fire!

Oh, wait, I thought it was Ablaze! but no, it's just barely smoldering... like the LCMS' ill conceived and poorly executed "movement" to reach 100,000,000 people with the gospel by 2017. They have used up about 30% of the time allotted but have only got 10% of the "numbers" they need.

Ablaze is not actually Lutheran of course, it's closer to your standard evangobapticostal sort of program and is full of implied "decision theology." Worse, it totally ignores all that is distinctly Lutheran (and thus really Christian), such as the proper preaching of Law and Gospel (Word), Baptism, Confession and Absolution and the Holy Eucharist (Sacraments) as the means by which the Lord has said He will spread his gospel around the world. (For more detail on what's wrong with Ablaze! see Ablaze!®, the Movement - By David Berger)

Anyway, Scott Diekmann has come up with brilliant plan to get it all over with so we can forget this horror and get on with Word and Sacrament. Check it out.

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NBC anti-life?

I would boycott NBC, if I ever watched it that is. I actually never watch anything on the old line networks, NBC, CBS, ABC, FOX. Everything I watch is on the cable only stations... do they still broadcast over the air? Ah well, this story is about the fact that it seems NBC refused to air an ad put together by some Catholic outfit that features an embryo and all of the hardships it faced in early life ending up with the revelation that they were talking about Obama. Here is the ad , check it out and see how unoffensive it is. Like I said, if I watched them I'd quit now. :-/

Child Driven Education

Here is a Ted Talk with Sugata Mitra on Child Driven Education... very unschooling-like I think. :-) I've seen videos of him before, this is an update on his research on letting groups of kids learn on the internet, mostly without any supervision at all. Posted via email from The Angry Gnome

The Tea Parties

I didn't make our local Tea Party , but it pulled hundreds of people as well... Tea, anyone? from Father Hollywood by Father Hollywood Like hundreds of thousands of other Americans, the Hollywoods enjoyed a tea party this past Wednesday. "Tea party" (wink wink). Nothing subversive about sipping a little Darjeeling, eh wot? Nothing to see here, Miss Napolitano. Anyway, our local festivities were held at Veterans Memorial Boulevard in Metairie. There were literally thousands of people crammed into the neutral ground (though on that day, the ground was anything but...), as cars and trucks poured by the busy boulevard laing on their horns in support. Here are pictures. And like every such gathering in our environs, there was even a brass band and an improptu "second line" parade. It was a "party" after all. But it was a party with a serious reason. The crowds were so overwhelming that it was hard to hear the speakers, and unfortunately, we did have a fe...

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