Kelo v. New London: Bad for Churches

Hat tip: Dan Edelen

You can see what I think about this Supreme Court ruling over in my LiveJournal account.

What I want to know is, will your pastor be brave enough to speak on this from the pulpit? Will he love his congregation enough to tell them the $10 million spent on their brand new building was likely all for nought? Or will he be too scared that the Feds will take away his coveted tax-exempt status for speaking about political issues?

We always knew these buildings were only temporary, and destined to perish — but few would have guessed just how temporary they might be…

Maundy Thursday

Last Thursday, Nicole had a Stampin’ Up! demonstration, so I took Katie to Littlestown Chapel‘s Maundy Thursday service. (But I think I might have gotten a raw deal, because contrary to tradition, no one volunteered to wash my feet.)

We had a wonderful time! There was a slide show running in the background during communion, and with each successive slide showing another scene in the Gethsemane-to-Golgotha story, Katie would point to the projection screen and whisper, “Jesus?”

She was a little confused, though: there was a picture of Jesus on the cross, being raised into the vertical position, but Katie must’ve thought there was a strong wind or something… when she saw that slide she asked, “Jesus fall down?”

Another funny moment was after I told her one of the slides was of “a lamb; a baby sheep.” Next time around, she looks at me and (as loud as she can) goes, “MOOOO.”

Yeah. We’re still working on our animal sounds.