Bill's Notes

First of 17 days off. Don't know if there's gonna be a lot of blogging or just a little. I know that I've been exhausted for the past three months. I don't want to have to write anything that makes sense. Fortunately, I don't have such high standards on this blog :)

That's all for now.

Meanwhile, I'm over at a friend's house and they're baking and insist that I'm supposed to bake. We'll see how that works out.

I heard this third hand, so maybe I'm getting this wrong. Seems a local Episcopal priest said that the reason the congregations aren't growing is that they're not dynamic enough. Yeah, that's it. It's all about dynamism.

So I watched the final of Survivor the other night. There was a sequence in which the four remaining contestants participated in the pagan sacrifice of a chicken. (They seem to like to go completely pagan on the show.)

One woman asked if they could eat the chicken, and they were told by the local witch doctors that no, they couldn't, it's a sacrifice. A few hours later they went back, took the chicken, and the three women ate it. Then they justified it to themselves, you know, that they'd honored the ceremony but that was a couple of hours ago, and now they wanted to eat the cooked chicken so it was all right. They even tempted the only man there, Raff, who to his credit refused to eat the meat sacrificed to idols, holding to the idea that it was a sacrifice and that's that.

It was like watching a replay of something out of the book of Kings. I don't think I'd ever seen a clearer example of why women shouldn't be priests. It wasn't so much the weakness in the face of hunger (understandable) that was objectionable, but the quick justification.

Though we pray that God will be merciful to all, even those who are most in need of divine mercy.

Via Dean. Colorful commentator on many blogs, Steven Malcolm Anderson, died suddenly of heart failure.

So long, Steven. We'll miss you.