This is SO embarrassing!
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Date: 17 August 2007 17:35:08
Cartoon by Dave Walker. Find more cartoons you can freely re-use on your blog at We Blog Cartoons.
I wrote a notice for this week's church newsletter. I handed it in before the deadline...for once. (A minor miracle) . They published it. (An even greater miracle). There are no typos. No part of my piece of incisive journalistic reflections strayed out of the textbox to be lost for ever in the overflow zone. It stands clear, crisp, a masterly example of DTP. An ode to the wonders of Times New Roman. Come Sunday morning, my impassioned plea for the return of my copy of a provocative and challenging manifesto for the postmodern, missional Christian by a Rather Well Known American Pastor with hirsuite tendencies will be there for the Whole World to see. (Well, for several hundred fellow congregants, anyway).
There's just one teensie fly in the ointment. A couple of hours ago I stirred myself from my Thank God It's Friday torpor and went to load the washing machine. And there in the ironing basket, betwixt a pile of T shirts and some M And S knickers nestled...yes...you've guessed it - Brian McLaren's 'A Generous Orthodoxy. Why I Am A missional - evangelical - post/protestant - liberal/conservative - mystical/poetic - biblical - charismatic/contemplative- fundamentalist/calvinist- anabaptist/anglican - methodist-catholic-green-incarnational-depressed-yet-hopeful-emergent-unfinished[and hopelessly disorganised ;)!] CHRISTIAN.' Still in its plastic bag from when I brought it home from church last week.
Enough said.