[NOTE: On Garrison Keillor’s Substack, there’s a feature called the Back Room, on which he posts odds and ends from his decades of work. Yesterday the following popped up.] From TIME Magazine ESSAY — June 14, 1999 Faith at the Speed of Light BY GARRISON KEILLOR “Just In terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not … Continue reading Garrison Keillor, 1999: God & Bill Gates on the Far Side
Okay, I was told that a file folder was blown out of a dumpster near Joe Biden’s beach place in Delaware, and somehow it made its way into my inbox. I figured it was a gag, but opened it anyway. Across the top of the single page inside it said: ”Supremely Confidential— Eyes Only February … Continue reading Now Revealed: the REAL Reason for the Chinese Balloon Shootdown
It’s a busy, scary world today: horrible earthquakes; war in Ukraine, warming here, freezing there, the resurgence of orange hair, etc. . . . But here in my hideaway, busy following much of this, there are glimpses of something else. One is the last holdout of the lilies I got the Fair Wendy for our … Continue reading Meanwhile,Two Glimpses of Domestic Tranquillity . . .
[NOTE: Luckily, I didn’t grow up evangelical, but old-style Catholic, which had its own hallways of horror. But that’s another story, or stories. The theology underlying the Rapture genre goes back to about 1830, and the work of a British preacher/teacher, John Nelson Darby. It’s commonly called Dispensationalism, and has spawned innumerable sects, rivalries, splits, … Continue reading Another “Rapture” Movie Is Here; But The End Is Not Really Near
