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Encounters with Scripture

Published
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Sharolyn
on 2 February 2008
in faith and theology, groupthink and literature
. 13 Comments

Are you discovering (or rediscovering) anything about the Bible?

I have had a few bold encounters with Scripture in my life, but mostly they are little ones that add up.  Sometimes those little encounters get lost in daily life, so I thought it’d be cool if we wrote some down.

On Wednesday nights I am going through a study called The Patriarchs with some women.  This week we studied Genesis 29/30.  I am thinking of Rachel and Leah after they are both married to Jacob.  One’s prettier, one bears more sons, and neither one can let go of the competition.  Sisters - women - human beings are nauseatingly competitive.

Leah has three sons and hopes it will cause Jacob to love her.  Here are the things she said after they were born:

First son: “It is because the Lord has seen my misery.  Surely my husband will love me now.

Second son: “Because the Lord heard that I am not loved, he gave me this one, too.”

Third son: “Now at last my husband will become attached to me, because I have borne him three sons.”

Then she birthed a fourth son and said, “This time I will praise the Lord.”  After a lifetime of being known for ugliness and betrothal to someone who was in love with her sister, she made her peace , like Lieutenant Dan after the storm on Forrest Gump’s boat.  This baby’s name was Judah.  Of Jacob’s twelve sons, this is the one whose descendant would be Christ.  I thought it was cool that perhaps this small trace of Jesus was bringing peace, even long before he was born.

How about you?  Have you been learning anything from the Bible lately?

Gravatar Site Images

Published
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michael lee
on 23 January 2008
in The Intra-Web-O-Sphere!, art and culture and groupthink
. 58 Comments

So, what’s with all the ghost images wandering around the site? You’ve probably noticed them in the comments. They look like this:

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They’re called gravatars, and you can set one up here. Here’s how it works: you plug in your email, and you upload a picture, and then every time you make a comment, the site will automagically insert your gravatar next to your comment.

Now, people can tell at a glance that the 18 paragraph thesis relating Cézanne’s conception of the human form in art to Foucault’s sign-object deconstruction was written by Stick, and not by Leoskeo. (Well, aside from the fact that Leoskeo thinks Cézanne’s work is symptomatic of the larger changes in representational art, and tooootally overblown in terms of its real significance, so he would never write that comment, obviously).

So, dear reader, what does this mean to you? If you’re a commenter, and you want your picture (or a picture) to show up next to your comments, just go to the Gravatar site and sign up. It’s run by the same people who write WordPress - good people, good company, no privacy concerns about giving them your email.

Then, every time you leave a comment using that same email address that you signed up with, your photo gets dropped in.

If you are an author for this site, please go sign up for a Gravatar. The next incarnation of our site design will be using Gravatars as author images next to the posts, so if you don’t want the anonymous ghost image showing up, you’ll need to setup a Gravatar image. Please make sure you sign up for it using the same email address that you used when you registered here at Addison Road.

Pictures! Color! Happiness and Joy! Mmmmm, delicious!

Planned Downtime

Published
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michael lee
on 18 January 2008
in geek and groupthink
. 24 Comments

Addison Road will be down this weekend. I’m switching over to a new server, with significantly faster load times, and less crappy downtime.

Please get all of your snarky comments posted here by tonight at 10pm, or risk getting that shakes until the site comes back online.

In 2008, I Will …

Published
by
michael lee
on 1 January 2008
in groupthink and life
. 31 Comments

… well?

In my cart so far…

Published
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June
on 28 December 2007
in art and culture, groupthink, life and literature
. 13 Comments

So, it snowed last night…just enough to be pretty (which now, a few hours later, means it’s one giant, sloppy, unpretty mess). The snow reminded me that winter has in fact, just begun. Given that I’m a poster-child for SAD, I’m planning ahead and doing some book shopping so that if (hahahahahah!) or rather, WHEN the dysfunction rears it’s ugly head on day #4 of rain (who am I kidding…I mean day #2!) I will at least have some good reads lying about. Better to bury one’s head in a book than just, ya know, bury it. So here’s what’s in my cart so far:
Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith
I’ve read zero Rob so far…I’m curious…and anything with “repainting” in the title is bound to resonate with me…I repaint often. (Which is another way of saying I paint badly quite often.)

Sadly, that’s the only mommy book I’ve added so far. (Thus, this post.) The only other things in my cart are three children’s books about Thanksgiving. (Thanks Aly…I finally checked out the Squanto book you recommended.) Like I said, I’m planning ahead.

I thought briefly about adding Foucault’s Pendulum as per a recommendation on a friend’s facebook page, but this sentence from the review sent me back to the children’s section: “This complex psychological thriller chronicles the development of a literary joke that plunges its perpetrators into deadly peril.” That is soooo utterly unappealing to me. And I don’t even feel compelled to apologize for my lack of intellectualism. (Mark it down.)

So, who has some reading recommendations for me? I’m aiming for somewhere a bit beyond Squanto for children but below the psychologically thrilling Foucault…it’s a big target…surely some of you can help! Lest my brain moss over in this perpetual winter drizzle, do comment soon! Thanks. (I thought about this and this, but I dunno….I guess I kinda want something more….fun.)