From the MadPriest:
So, I'm closing OCICBW... for a couple of days so I can concentrate on my tax return (oh joy!) and some nerdy stuff like catching up with the cataloging of my records. I've got some days off owed to me which Mrs MadPriest hasn't. I will be back blogging after the weekend. Go bother Eileen or Mimi. They just sit around all day painting their toe nails and stuff.
Well, y'all come and welcome, but if you do, when will I have time to paint my toenails?
I thought I should post this to explain the many references to painted toenails in my earlier post and the comments there.
Any resemblance to John Henry Newman in the picture above is purely coincidental.
UPDATE: Saintly Ramblings has volunteered to help shoulder the heavy burden placed by MadPriest on Eileen and me by posting what he calls "some really bad jokes". He has already begun, so you can pop over there and see. I don't know about Eileen, but I need all the help I can get.
UPDATE 2: Here's a link to a video at Eileen's blog on painting toenails blue. We thought you'd want to know.
The real reason OCICBW is down for a couple of days:
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Lapin, surely not.
ReplyDeleteIt is Hagger the 'orrible, is it not?
ReplyDeleteYou said it, Lapin, not me.
ReplyDeleteI must say Mimi, I think there is no resemblance to that Newman guy!
ReplyDeleteSusan, thank you!
ReplyDeleteLapin, you know that he can not drink with the meds that he is on!
ReplyDeleteThat's Paul Newman, Mimi?
ReplyDeleteDavid, love, on my sidebar, you will find these words:
ReplyDeleteWounded Bird, on occasion, indulges in irony.
That goes for the comments, too. Please do not take everything on this blog seriously.
Lapin, Paul Newman on a bad day?
I won't come close to the standard set by the Mad One, but in his absence I'll try and post some really bad jokes, just to help keep the rest of us sane, if it's not too late for that .... !
ReplyDeleteSR, I make no pretense of coming close to the standards set by MP. We have the whole weekend ahead of us. Have a go, by all means. After all, we can do what we want on our own blogs, can't we? MP doesn't control the world - yet.
ReplyDeleteWell, I think it may be time at last to say what we all really think of him, with his Brit meddling.
ReplyDeleteWith the occasional exception, I think he's a fine fellow whom I like a lot.
Ngaaaahh!
Yes, "without his Brit meddling".
ReplyDeleteEvery time I get tied up somewhere away from the blogosphere, upon my return, all kinds of craziness is in progress. Oh, well, I am sure you and Eileen can more than pick up the slack.
ReplyDeleteThe somewhere else was Department X, et al v. The BooCat, et al. We presented our oral arguments before the Court of Civil Appeals yesterday. Please pray for us.
Prayers for Boo Cat..
ReplyDeleteMimi...we're gonna do our nails blue!
I put up the video at my place.
Frickin' Priest.
Boocat, prayers for you, love. Would you like me to put the prayer request up in a post?
ReplyDeleteWell, I think it may be time at last to say what we all really think of him, with[out] his Brit meddling.
ReplyDeleteThat could be fun, Johnieb.
Eileen, I'll put up a link.
I left a comment earlier and blogger ate it or a certain Anglican priest sabotaged it!
ReplyDeleteWhat I said was this- we would be coming to your blog anyway.
Who is he kidding?
And the mystery remains, what does Madpriest really look like?
ReplyDeleteIf I had the time and the dough, I'd go to Newcastle just to find out.
"The horror! The horror!"
Here. Get involved in a theological discussion. (While you have some spare visiting time.) I broke one of my longstanding blogger vows and got involved in one in a place where I don't generally talk theology or get involved on "one side" or "the other."
ReplyDeleteI tried to raise questions and open up the conversation, to be civil and stick to my vow (so far so good) of no polarizing or ad hominem arguments. But I just had to say something in this instance.
And by the way, my major point was really not about what the commenters on my comments have said -- it was much broader. So you don't have to be the type of person who uses words like Pelagian or Semi-Pelagian to get involved. If you are so inclined, go ye and converse (civilly, please, I am NOT NOT NOT encouraging flame wars, so help me Godde) after paying attention to the context -- and I am going to hold my tongue now. (Should I pray Compline and then watch Jon Stewart, or watch Jon Stewart and then pray Compline? Such horrible dilemmas.)
I really do, loudmouth though I be, try to walk (and talk - like Buddhist Right Speech, the Christian version) a kind and compassionate path, and perhaps I was just succumbing to temptation. But I think someone was dissing my peeps. I know my peeps pray and believe in God's grace. Plus, they and everyone else's peeps, even the ones with whom I disagree, are Godde's peeps.
Also, re: the comments on the comments over there, I don't get how thinking lgbt people are all right in God's eyes has anything to do with not believing in grace or in the reality of sin.
But as I have said before, I am just a simple country theologian.
Enough from me. See what you think. And I beg you, be courteous, while speaking truth.
P.S. Sorry, that link on the first word of my post, "Here," doesn't seem to be working. But it's the same as the link at the very end of the post.
ReplyDeleteOr try this.
Fran, thanks, love.
ReplyDeleteCounterlight, someday someone's gonna carry coal to Newcastle. If that person doesn't get a picture, I don't want to be responsible for the consequences.
Jane, I'll have a look. You know me! I'm always gentle and polite.
Jane R, I took a glance. Having relied on grace all my life, I find the premise utterly incomprehensible and the chop logic just silly. I refuse to engage that level of codswallop.
ReplyDeleteMimi, may I say "codswallop" here? If not, my apologies. Just delete this. I know you try to run a respectable joint here.
Well, that was my first thought, Paul.
ReplyDeleteI don't usually engage or spend the energy. As I said, it may have been a moment of temptation.
Codswallop is just another word for bad theology. Anyway, whatever it means, I say use it. Mimi has an exemption on her Respectable Joint License for the weekend since Jonathan closed his joint and sent all the rabble over. It ain't Mimi's fault if the conversation degenerates and if rabbits and dogs and all manner of other critters human and other mess up the floor.
Okay, I am really shutting up.
OK, Jane, I went over there and left a simple-minded comment, not getting into the heresies or anything. God help me. The things we do for our friends.
ReplyDeletePaul, you said it twice and you made Jane say it, too. The standards are relaxed for the weekend. It's wild time.
Someone of you had better get over there and read what I wrote and give me feedback, and I'm looking especially hard at you, Jane.
Jane - There is nothing to say there to those folks. They know what they know, and that's that.
ReplyDeleteMimi, I answered you on my own blog where you left a note, but I will say it here too. I thought what you said was theologically, spiritually, and humanly spot-on, and I think you are a fine theologian.
ReplyDeleteYou zeroed in on something I had not noted, a real problem with the theology of salvation (soteriology) among some: the view that human depravity is so deep that it really is never redeemed. What good then is redemption, or rather, is redemption then real? You raised that very question. I'm impressed. And for answering the bidding of a friend I owe you a manicure, or a Sazerac or some kind of treat.
I think there are some very different views of creation and incarnation at work too. But that may be for another post.
Thanks for indulging me, all. It is just inaccurate to say that people in TEC don't believe in grace and I couldn't keep my mouth shut. And re: the comments over there going straight to the ++KJS's theology: I may not articulate my theology in the same way as the PB does but I doubt that she relies on herself only or that she does not pray to God who is infinite grace. (And there are much easier and better jobs to take on if what one seeks is self-worship.)
And liberals or progressives or reappraisers or whatever one wants to call us do not worship ourselves, we are trying to follow Christ, and not to take us at our word that we are doing so is discourteous -- at best.
I pray for the church.
Thank you again, Mimi.
Now you raised the level of discourse on this blog again. Someone please post a bad joke so we can take advantage of the Respectable Joint Exemption some more.
Mimi and Jane R, I followed the link from Clumber's place to the Church of Hostility last night and noted your excellent comments on the post in question. Well done, both of you. I have nothing to add except, Amen.
ReplyDeleteTo get back to more serious matters: Regarding the question of blue toenails, I hold to the traditional view that in most circumstances nail polish colors should be keyed to the skin tones of the wearer. Thus, just as I do not wear blue lipstick, I also do not use blue nail enamel. However, I do not hold this to be a matter of core doctrine. There is room under the big tent for many liturgical and cosmetic styles.
ReplyDelete(Currently wearing OPI 'Sonora Sunset' on toenails and Salon System Matte Basecoat on fingernails.)
You are a brave woman, Mimi dear. I don't want to leave comments over there because I don't want them having a link to my blog and I refuse to be anonymous.
ReplyDeleteHer comments make me wonder if she even knows anyone outside her own little circle? Her description of people in TEC sounds more like some "Christian" version of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion than it does anything in real life...
Amazing that she can ascribe such awful motives to people and continue to pray the Lord's Prayer...
Jane, what a lovely compliment. Thank you. I notice that both your comment and mine are ignored so far. Matt would rather take on Malcolm+ in argument, so he can get to say over and over that Bishop Katherine is a heretic. And you do owe me my friend.
ReplyDeleteMary Clara, thanks. Re the nail polish and lipstick, I'm not sure that I can share the table with you wearing Sonora Sunset. That's getting pretty close to core doctrine, because it clashes with MY skin tone. Repent and remove and then we'll talk.
Doxy, if those folks come over here and see that I'm on MadPriest's recommended list, they will truly go ballistic. I believe and I hope that they will continue to ignore me. Besides, Jane made me do it. What a sad way to live a life. What good, then, is redemption?
ReplyDeleteIt was a fine point, Mimi, but Matt has no comeback except to ignore it and try to change the subject, in his usual style. I've been telling you you're a fine theologian for months at least. Can't get yer head around it yet?
ReplyDeleteAnd well done, Jane R., but I feel you both have cast pearls before swine which is futile, as Eileen points out. Besides, in my case there's Blood Pressure to consider.
Johnieb, I know you have been telling me that for months, and I thank you for the kind words, but I can't quite bring myself to believe it. And now Jane says it, too.
ReplyDeleteNo more coal thank you, we have no need of it anymore. You don't really want to know what he looks like anyway. You don't want your delusions shattered.
ReplyDeleteTheMe, delusions or illusions?
ReplyDeleteNow, Mimi, we mustn't let these color choices become a basis for schism. All decent shades are blessed of the Lord and worthy to be applied to the proper nails. I shall neither repent nor repaint. We'll just ask one of the gentlemen to sit between us so that our colors don't fight with each other. I'm sure any of our heroes here would be more than equal to the task of keeping us at a safe distance from each other.
ReplyDeleteMary Clara, perhaps that could work. Just so none of the impurity of Sonora Sunset rubs off on me.
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