You can’t rely on this blog for much at all. Reliably unreliable, we are. But this one theme I’m sticking to:
Muppets Captured in the Wild.
I will not let you down on this.
Photo in the News: Colossal Squid Caught off Antarctica
For one thing, added the Auckland University of Technology professor, the squid would yield calamari rings the size of tractor tires.
Someone, some long suffering writer with big dreams, some former journalism grad student from New Zealand just got to write the sequence of words: “calamari rings the size of tractor tires.” for National Geographic. Career-crowning achievements are found in the oddest of places.
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For the first Friday of Lent, a fish story:
The Enquirer - Filet-O-Fish hooked patrons
Forty-five years ago, Lou Groen’s career began its turn from rags to fishes.
Groen, who began his working life as a homeless teenager in the 1930s, was casting about in 1962 for a way to save his floundering hamburger restaurant in Monfort Heights.
His efforts caught more than a nibble. He created a sandwich that would eventually be consumed at a rate of 300 million a year - the McDonald’s Filet-O-Fish.
Via: Man with Black Hat who heard it from:
Rich Leonardi of Ten Reasons
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On TV tonight:
‘The Marines‘ on PBS (check your local schedule)
Marine Corps News Room: PBS Documentary ‘The Marines’ Captures Corps’ Values
By John J. Kruzel
American Forces Press Service“How the warrior culture is engrained and how it sets the Marines apart from other armed services branches are critical aspects of Marine development and understanding,†John Grant, producer of the WNED documentary, said.
At Twentynine Palms, the country’s largest Marine base, filmmakers got a close-up look at a battalion training in mock Iraqi villages as it prepared for deployment. For roughly one-third of the Marines in the featured battalion, it would be their first combat deployment.
In light of the recent developments and conversations regarding Anglican unity with the Pope, I bring you this paper by Evangelical theologian, D. Steven Long professor of Theology at Garrett Evangelical Seminary. He gets down to brass tacks very quickly.
In Need of a Pope?
Protestants need the papacy because we must have something to protest against. Protestantism is a 500-year-old tradition of protest and dissent against tradition.
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Christ left us no written sources, no legal contracts or juridical means of unity. Instead he mediates God’s presence to us in and through human flesh. Perhaps the papacy bears witness to this reality better than other instruments of unity (to trade on an Anglican term).
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So what is to be done? Only two possibilities seem to present themselves. Either we try to find a place for our separated communities from within the Catholic Church or we find a place for Catholic unity from within our separated communities. Neither can be accomplished without willing the visible unity the papacy embodies.
From the Los Angeles Times:
Marines in Iraq’s Al Anbar cope with daily grind -
A sign outside the chow hall at the base in this town near the Syrian border sums up the slow, incremental nature of the campaign: “Rebuilding Iraq one meal at a time.”
Bush said during his State of the Union address that “this is not the fight we entered in Iraq, but it is the fight we are in.” To the 20,000-plus troops in Al Anbar, soon to be reinforced under the administration’s troop-increase plan, that wasn’t news.
“I wasn’t taught any of these things in infantry school,” said Lt. Col. Scott Shuster, commander of the 3rd Battalion, 4th Regiment, with responsibility for Qaim.
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A quick roundup of discussion of the Times story on Catholic - Anglican interfaith relations:
The unpublished 43 page document Growing Together in Unity and Mission is erhm… published, here.
The media+blog+commenter reactions to this story come in a few different veins.
Cynicism and doubt, this is directed towards Catholics and Catholicism, towards Anglicans and Anglicanism, towards Christian unity, specifically towards particular bishops of the church, and most specifically towards Ruth Gledhill of The Times for sensationalism.
Hope. There are those who express hope. In the midst of all the ad hominem attacks someone who prays for unity might look a little bit facile.
From John 17
“I pray not only for them, but also for those who will believe in me through their word, (21) so that they may all be one, as you, Father, are in me and I in you, that they also may be in us, that the world may believe that you sent me. (22) And I have given them the glory you gave me, so that they may be one, as we are one, (23) I in them and you in me, that they may be brought to perfection as one, that the world may know that you sent me, and that you loved them even as you loved me.”
This quickie how-to on Instructables.com is a solution to cords and cables that you might use at varying lengths:
Cablebone (excess cable organiser)
There are very few things in life that get right under my skin, tripping over cables is one of them.
via: Lifehacker
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The document called Growing Together in Unity and Mission leaked to The Times (London) which I referenced here is put into historical perspective in a published statement by the two co-chairs Archbishop John Bathersby, Catholic Co-chair of the International Anglican - Roman Catholic Commission for Unity and Mission, (IARCCUM) and Bishop David Beetge, Anglican Co-chair of IARCCUM on Independent Catholic News.
Independent Catholic News
Growing Together in Unity and Mission has not yet been officially published. It is unfortunate that its contents have been prematurely reported in a way which misrepresents its intentions and sensationalises its conclusions. The first part of the document, which treats doctrinal matters, is an attempt to synthesize the work of ARCIC (the Anglican - Roman Catholic International Commission) over the past 35 years. It identifies the level of agreement which has been reached by ARCIC, but is also very clear in identifying ongoing areas of disagreement, and in raising questions which still need to be addressed in dialogue. Those ongoing questions and areas of disagreement are highlighted in boxed sections interspersed throughout the text. It is a very honest document assessing the state of Anglican - Roman Catholic relations at the present moment.
The Anglican Primates meeting in Tanzania are the occasion for the discussion of this document, they are not the source of the document. Their Communique is here, on Stand Firm, Traditional Anglicanism in America. Not surprisingly, it says nothing about all of them running off to become Catholic together.
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From the archives of Touchstone magazine, the author contrasts the reverence and solemnity of Marine Corps pallbearers with the rest of a funeral’s proceedings.
Touchstone Archives: Rites & Wrongs of Passage
Casual Ministers & Reverent Marines
If you don’t care to read the whole thing, which I would suggest, I’ll give you the punch line right here:
The care and dignity of the military rite put the Christian rites to shame.
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… for my own good.
The blog’s name is “Inedible Ink.” Ink which cannot be eaten. Words which do not sustain life. But folks just can’t seem to write those two words side by side, it always comes out Indelible Ink. I can’t blame them, what a silly name.
If I ever create a site that is entirely scripture and authoritative, I’ll call that site Indelible Ink. Until then, please, Inedible Ink.
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