A marvellous play on words ...

This post really is about the Bahamas and Books:

THIS looks like fun this weekend: http://soularize.net

N. T. Wright, Brennan Manning, and one of the bunch whose "Divine Nobodies" I really enjoyed: Jim Palmer.

As much as we have a tendency to complain about how little there is to do in Nassau besides sand, sun and sea, these things do come along and we really ought to make the most of them!

This is an incredible range of authors and subjects, each of which is worth your while in some way or another. It's not a question of feeding on your usual fare 'cause there are no alternatives. Man!

All'Italia

So we're off to Italy for two weeks ... land of the leaning tower of Pisa, pizza and pasta. Don't forget risotto, gelato and vino, either.

We'll fly in to Milan, head off to Florence, then a couple days in the Chianti hills, down to Rome, maybe hit Pompeii, possibly over to the Adriatic to visit Moana Higgs Carminucci who grew up with us here, then on up to Venice and back to the Cinque Terre (Vernazza) before heading up to Lugano, Switerland for business.

Hopefully we haven't bit off more than we can chew.

Watch here for photos and updates ...

BC's Brilliant!

If ever a comic tickles my funny-bone it's likely to be BC.

Hart plays with words like a consummate juggler with 5 knives in the air at the same time!

Today's strip is incredible ... it needs to be read and re-read to catch all the twists.

Only comic strip I ever enjoyed more was "Snake Tales". Here's the Wikipedia entry (very minimal): Snake Tales Wikipedia It's another of those strips you just have to "get" to get. Does anybody know if this guy is still drawing? Haven't seen any for ages.

Apostle Paul Rejection Letter

Jan and I are here in Atlanta for the Logos Bookstore Association annual general meetings and then a booksellers convention and the Atlanta Gift Show.

More about all that later ...

In the meantime, I ran across this hilarious link which has personal significance for me:

http://jimost.wordpress.com/2007/06/25/apostle-paul-rejection-letter

Many years ago I did my master's thesis at Middlebury/Instituto Internacional in Madrid on the Spanish Law of Religious Freedom of 1967 and its effect on non-catholic Spaniards ("La Ley de Libertad Religiosa del 1967 y su efecto sobre los acatolicos Españoles¨). As part of that process I got excited about what I saw in a couple of evangelical churches there and was challenged by some of the folks I met to work among them. I wrote off to a prominent Stateside mission board, offering that I intended to attend Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary (I had attended Gordon College) and then I would be available for training and eventually for the mission field, hopefully in Spain.

I got a letter back saying they were concerned about the fact that it had come to their attention that there were professors who held to a "post-millenarian view of eschatology", and steering me to Columbia Bible College instead.

Ooops ... end of interchange with those folks.

And here I am 33 years later in banking and bookselling in the Bahamas (love that alliteration!).

Must have been a God thing!

It's still Rosie!

It's been a looong time since an update.

But ... the more things change in some areas, I guess the more the stay the same.

Ah, Rosie, Rosie, Rosie ...