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Dear Good Sir, I hope you won't be offended by a non-Calvinist (who is a graduate of Calvin College, if that don't beat all) butting in on your forum, but I would say that you should have plenty of non-PC(USA) Presbyterian choices available in your area. Right off hand, I'm sure there are...

That one Scandinavian Nazi dude that stabbed that other rival metaller to death in Scandinavia is pretty cool but he's in jail now. Yours, Jeff

"In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning" is one of the saddest songs ever recorded. Yours, Jeff

I certainly hope that wasn't meant to be taken as anything resembling a thought or an argument. It's rather more reminiscent of words tumbling out of one's mouth. And before you accuse me of an ad hominem attack in the above paragraph, reflect on what you had written. Compassionate...

Wow! You actually live somewhere that E.C. is played on the radio, hey? I mean, I grew up near Detroit, not exactly a small market, and don't think I've ever heard an Elvis Costello song on the radio. And that's including the "alternative rock" station over in Windsor, Ontario. All this...

First, seajoy, thx for the welcome. Don't know how much you'll be seeing me around here, but I guess I'm just an incorrigible forum flirt. Right, AFLC isn't a synod/denomination. It is an association (go figure, hey) of independent congregations. It's in the pietist tradition, and I think...

Hello all, Any members of the Association of Free Lutheran Congregations frequent these forums? Just like to hear your thoughts on it, if so. Yours, Jeff

Intruder In The Dust, William Faulkner.

Hello all my new best friends forever, Quick question. I am wondering how much theological freedom is allowed, in terms of ministers/ministerial leaders in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). For instance, and specifically, would someone who believes that the ordination of women is...

This past summer, at the DTE Energy Pavilion outside Detroit (formerly known as Pine Knob). My sister bought the tickets and coerced me into going. I wonder if ol' Johnny Cougar will "fight authority" so much nowadays since the People's Republic of West Europe has now replaced the old...

Rediculous to call Anglicans Online "fair". Yours, Jeff

It is so wrong to call Elvis Costello or The Clash "classic rock" ... The Man was essentially (until he became the preening pop queen he was originally out to destroy) New Wave, and the point of New Wave was to kill dead the bloated dinosaur rock represented by Led Zep, E.L.P., etc. I believe...

That's exactly right! My sister sells ad time for a "classic rock" station in one of the largest markets in the United States, so I have a direct pipeline for complaint. I have asked her repeatedly why it is that I have begun hearing more and more often bands such as Van Halen/Van Hagar and U2...

A simple plug for the small website I run. You can find the address in my signature. I'm still working on developing it. Quote marks in the subject line because it's not my mission, it's God's, and it's hardly a mission (yet), but I hope to someday at least gather a small Bible study...

It's just strange to know that music you listened to in high school is now considered "classic rock". Kinda like "I Am The Walrus" was when I was a sophomore. Whew. Yours, Jeff

Good gravy ... if Guns 'N Roses is "classic rock" you've just made me feel as old as the most rank Baby Boomer must feel right about now on his much-deserved death bed. On another note, there is good Genesis and bad Genesis. Good Genesis is their Abacab-era stuff: a cool mix of New Wave and...

Dear Good Sir, First, thank you for clearing up for me the fact that C.H. is indeed from N.Z. I have heard them claimed as Australians more than once, but was fairly certain they hailed from that other Commonwealth nation down under. After I watched the concert on "Austin City Limits", I...

Keith, A translation of Dante's Divine Comedy which I highly recommend (though it's the only one I've ever read) is John Ciardi's, which he completed in the late 1950's to 1970 or so. I have the Mentor Books paperback editions (forced to buy them for Great Books 101 my freshman first semester...

RE: Avatar's early post: "The Satanic Verses. Got this book from the library way back when the Rushdie Fatwah thing was in the news. Shortly into the book two characters had fallen from a plane and were talking to one another as they fell, iirc. The writing went somethibng like this: 'Let's...

Wayne, How do you see the relation (if any, really) between Anabaptists and Baptists? There seem to be so many similarities with the exception that most Baptists are at least some brand of Calvinist. Yours, Jeff p.s. I apologize to all if this is a thread-hijacking. That ain't cool.