Recently, Facebook rolled out a new feature called Facebook Questions, aiming for a built-in poll interface that would allow people and pages to easily survey their friends and readers from time to time.
How do you deal with the verses in John that discuss “the Jews”? Where does joy come from? What would you do for a Klondike bar?
“IF family means everything AND we all wish our Churches had the power that we used to think the CofE had vis a vis the state – namely that it was THE church of the State, then we are sunk.”
Given the post immediately preceding this one, about how one corporation (Apple) seems to have the brass ring of outright religiosity, perhaps it’s too heavy-handed to make much meaning of this one. Other than that it seems to be commanding eyeballs for the past few days.
“The Apple brand has come to represent individuality, liberty, freedom – Marlboro Man type buzzwords – rugged American individualism: concepts Apple has, if not cultivated, exploited, to market its products.”
They look to this day and find it pulsating with meaning for the struggle to articulate what it is to be human.
Let us go together to meet Christ on the Mount of Olives. Today he returns from Bethany and proceeds of his own free will toward his holy and blessed passion, to consummate the mystery of our salvation. He who came down from heaven to raise us from the depths of sin, to raise us with himself, we are told in Scripture, above every sovereignty, authority and power, and every other name that can be named, now comes of his own free will to make his journey to Jerusalem.