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It's A Small Lutheran World After All

So, I checked my Facebook page when I got back to my apartment after class today (because I would NEVER check it during classes) and in the top right corner of the new (and notably inferior) layout of my home page is a box labeled as "People You May Know" and it gave me the opportunity to add as a friend Rev. Sarah Vorhees Hershberger. That's right, the same Rev. Sarah Vorhees Hershberger who is the center of the Lutheran Universe. I have 8 friends who are friends with her. Wow, I am this close to being relevant. Or I am REALLY enjoying the Sudafed for my sinus congestion. Unfortunately, the combo of the Sudafed and the name I gave this post will probably cause me to relive the most terrible experience of my life, when I went to DisneyWorld and got stuck inside the Small World ride when it broke down. I heard this wonderful song for 30 minutes straight. AAAAAARRRRRGGGGGG!!

It's a Nerd-splotion!

For those of you who were thinking, "Gee, I'd like to read The Hobbit , but I only have 1:37 of spare time. Is there a cheesy video summary of the book as sung to a crappy '70's beat by a pop culture icon who can't sing?" (And I know there are dozens of you out there, and you all have my blog on your feed burners - at least until you are subjected to this.) For your dining and dancing pleasure, I give you Leonard Nimoy and The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins. May God have mercy on your soul.

But it's a bad translation!

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o For my Lenten disciple, besides giving up pop (I don't care what you call it here in the Commonwealth, it is pop. POP, POP, POP!), I have taken to meditating on the windows of the various churches and chapels I go to. Each Sunday, I am trying to go to a different church for worship. Each day, I try to pick a different window at The LTS's Church of the Abiding Presence. But I have become fixated on this one (the big picture to the left and/or above) that depicts the conversion of Saul. I started looking at it prior to our Internship Workshop, and have kept coming back to it. The passage quoted on the window is supposed to be from Acts 9:6 . But if you look there in most translations, like the NRSV , it's not there. It only shows up there in the King James translations (the original and any updates.) That's because it isn't in any of the Greek manuscripts . It does appear in Acts 22:10 when he is recounting this story . No matter where it appears, I am finding it a

After that and ever after I haven't had a clue

From their 2nd night on David Letterman's The Late Show, U2 performing Magnificent. Magnificent , Magnificent I was born I was born to be with you In this space and time After that and ever after I haven't had a clue Only to break rhyme This foolishness can leave a heart black and blue Only love, only love can leave such a mark But only love, only love can heal such a scar I was born I was born to sing for you I didn't have a choice but to lift you up And sing whatever song you wanted me to I give you back my voice From the womb my first cry, it was a joyful noise... Only love, only love can leave such a mark But only love, only love can heal such a scar Justified till we die, you and I will magnify The Magnificent , Magnificent Only love, only love can leave such a mark But only love, only love unites our hearts Justified till we die, you and I will magnify The Magnificent , Magnificent Magnificent Maybe it's because I spent a lot of last semester reading Isaia

I've Got A Submarine, You've Got Gasoline

Coming tomorrow (03x03=09), the new U2 album, No Line On The Horizon, drops. U2 - Get On Your Boots

Oh, the places I'll go ...

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So, today was the announcement of the internship matches for the Middler class here at The LTS. I'm trying to think what the best Biblical verse is to sum up the feelings. The choices are: a) "And all the people went up following him, playing on pipes and rejoicing with great joy, so that the earth quaked at their noise."1 Kings 1:40 b) "Throw him into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”Matthew 22:13 c) "A dispute also arose among them." Luke 22:24 The answer is somewhere in the middle. Most people were happy with where they have been assigned, but a few were not. I'm in a group in the middle. I did not get one of my preferred sites, but am happy with where I'm going. I wanted to go to an urban site because that is where I feel called. Instead, I'm going to a detached parish (my supervisor is a pastor at a near-by church, and I will work under his leadership primarily at another church who is currently without