OK, I’ll bite.
Yes, I certainly have Andrew Klavan books. In fact I think I have everything in his oeuvre, (including the Keith Peterson books) except for Hunting Down Amanda, which I’ve got to find one of these days.
Roy, do you have any books by Walter Wangerin?
Here’s a new meme. The path, should you choose to follow it, goes like this.
1. Answer the question given when you were tagged.
2. Tag someone else with a new question.
The questions allowed for this meme are of the Go Fish variety. For example: “Hey, Phil, got any books by Rudyard Kipling?” “Yes, I do. I have a couple cheap paperbacks of The Jungle Book and Captains Courageous, and a 1940 edition of his collected verses published by Sun Dial Press.”
Having answered a question, I will ask a question, and I’ll start with what I hope to be an easy-sort-of-easy one.
Hey, Lars, got any books by Andrew Klavan?
Johnny Hart, one of the great cartoonists of our time–creator of “The Wizard of Id” and “B.C.” as well as an in-your-face Christian witness–died today at his home at Endicott, NY. He was 76 years old.
I think he was probably pleased to go home on Easter Day.
“Hey! Heaven got cartoonists!”
I heard Walter Wangerin Jr. read this story on the radio for Good Friday. It’s an enjoyable parable. The Ragman.
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I can’t say I’m too familiar with Origen, but I know I don’t have what it takes to be a church father anyway. Like they said of Luther, he didn’t just roll out of bed to lead the Reformation; he studied and taught constantly. The closest I’ve gotten to “original languages” is Middle English.
“Why do you seek the living among the dead? He is not here, but has risen.”
from Luke 24 ESV
Then Mary took her young son
And set him on her knee;
‘I pray thee now, dear child,
Tell how this world shall be.’—
‘O I shall be as dead, mother,
As the stones in the wall;
O the stones in the street, mother,
Shall mourn for me all.
‘And upon a Wednesday
My vow I will make,
And upon Good Friday
My death I will take.
‘Upon Easter-day, mother,
My uprising shall be;
O the sun and the moon, mother,
Shall both rise with me!’
Here’s one you probably haven’t read or heard: The Cherry-Tree Carol.
Amy points out a long essay with links on Tom Bombadil (by way of Frank Wilson)
Good Friday is a time for meditations. Here’s one of mine.
I imagine one of the Lord’s disciples, getting up early one morning, after the triumphal entry, and writing a letter home from Jerusalem.
Dear Mom and Dad,
Just a note to wish you a happy Passover and to tell you what’s been going on here.
It’s been just incredible.
I didn’t know what to expect when we came to Jerusalem, but I never expected we’d be rock stars! All the people turned out in the streets to cheer the Rabbi. They waved tree branches. They laid their robes down in the street for his donkey to walk over. The children were dancing and singing. It was a party! It was incredible!
I always knew the Kingdom was coming, but I’d never really expected to see it, I guess. Everybody’s talking about the Rabbi. We’ve got the whole city on our side. It’s going to happen! Soon the Rabbi will sit on the throne. He’ll drive the Romans out. Israel will be a mighty kingdom again.
And your son will be a governor, at least.
That little farm you’ve always wanted? I’ll see that you get it. Only it’ll be a big farm. And when you come to visit me in my palace, I’ll send you home with expensive gifts.
Pretty soon now. Any day, it’s going to happen. Nothing can stop us now. We’ve got the momentum.
Ah. There goes the Rabbi. He seems to be headed for the temple.
I wonder why He’s carrying a whip?
God’s ways are not our ways. That’s one of the lessons of Good Friday. But let us remember that it’s also a lesson of Easter.
“Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, [Jesus] himself likewise partook of the same things, that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil, and deliver all those who through fear of death were subject to lifelong slavery. For surely it is not angels that he helps, but he helps the offspring of Abraham. Therefore he had to be made like his brothers in every respect, so that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in the service of God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people. For because he himself has suffered when tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted.” (Hebrews 2:14-18 ESV)