corey made a schlagen
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words by Alissa Adkins, music by Brian Steckler
Ok, so Mike gave me a key to the house, so I’m going to test it out with a little tune I did with my niece, Alissa. She’s 16, wrote the lyric, and sang all the vocals. Guitars by my buddy Danny Donnelly.
You know that sinking feeling you get when you’re watching something, and you realize that, not only is this guy a better juggler than you, he’s also way cooler? Meet Chris Bliss. This was sent in by Nathaniel, by way of Thom and Linda, which just goes to show that good taste is genetic.
Technorati Tags: Beatles, Phreaky Phriday, Juggling
Last Wednesday (which was also, probably not coincidentally, my mom’s birthday - go, Mom!) was International Women’s Day. To be honest, I didn’t even know such a thing existed, but wow…good show. Women are awesome, and international women are even better. They definitely deserve their own Day.
[Side note: In the spring of my freshman year of college, when Black History Month and International Women's Day and some other made-up holidays deserving of a party with beer rolled around, some guys got together and strung up a banner on the roof of the gym that read: "Celebrate White European Male Day!" and it made me laugh. A lot. You gotta love those guys with their feelings of isolation and residual guilt. And also, point taken.]
To celebrate International Women’s Day, several bloggers got together to do a “grid blog,” a concept with which I was not previously familiar, being all non-geek and whatnot. The idea is that a bunch of bloggers post about the same topic on the same day (in this case, women…specifically, women in ministry) in hopes that awareness of said topic will be raised. I am heartbroken that I was not on the ball enough to participate (Mental Note: Remember for next year.), but it gives me great pleasure to direct your attention to this important discussion. This is a topic that is near and dear to my heart, and any chance I can get to mix it up in our ol’ white european male Addison Road is good enough for me.
What are your thoughts about men and women and their roles in the Kingdom?
In the past two weeks, I’ve heard the same thing from 3 people - “I read the blog almost every day, but I don’t ever comment. You guys use fancy-schmancy words, and I don’t really feel like I have anything to add (One of the guys actually used the word fancy-schmancy. I love that word).”
Two things - first, it made me wonder about who reads the blog, especially the lurkers who fly under the radar. So this post is a roll call. If you read the blog, post a quick comment on this post. Let us know who you are.
The second thing is this - that’s a lame reason to not comment on a post. If we were going to make fun of anyone for their lack of wit and 3rd grade vocabulary, it would have been Corey. He’s from Texas! But you see how well we treat him?
Seriously, here’s the deal. We are, by nature, a curious bunch of people, and one of the things that we’re the most curious about is what people think about things. All people. Not just people who talk pretty. Not just people who construct well-reasoned 15 part analytical defenses for philosophical world-views (in fact, we are probably least interested in what those people think). So consider this your invitation. We think you’re interesting. We already like you. We want to know what you think about things.
The floor is now open for discussion.
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