So someone has killed abortion provider Dr. Tiller in Kansas.
He was at his Lutheran Church.
We can at this point only presume this was done by someone so opposed to abortion that they are using a"just war" theory to kill.
No matter where you are on the spectrum (and it is a spectrum, not a binary choice), if you claim to be a follower of Christ, this is deplorable.

And it is expressly forbidden by Jesus in the Gospels.

In the Garden of Gethsemane, the Roman soldiers have come for Jesus. Everyone know that they are killers of the innocent and that it is Jesus' death that they come with.

Peter pulls out his sword.

Jesus tells him to put it away.

He specifically forbids him to use violence to further his cause.

What part of that is equivocal?



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Getting ready to copy edit the book - ugh


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The results are unanimous!
(which is pretty easy when I am the sole judge)

Everyone who entered WINS!!!!!!
send me a mailing address at PeggyparsonsATcs.com
and expect a book by Mid-summer's Eve

All entries will appear on the About the Author page inside the book,
(one entry per person - chosen by me)

A few of them will be on the back cover
(number to be determined by graphic designer)

THANKS, really I mean it, for all the kind words and support.
Pp

So There I Was.. the book
is near ready for the printer.

I am working on the "About The Author" page.

This may end up on the back cover.

I am using actual quotes, but I am looking for semi-humorous, yet truthful bits.
I am asking for submissions of one line quotes.
If I end up using your quote, you get a free book.

Rules:
1.Quotes must be no longer than one line.
2.You must have met me, or read my writing (inlcuding this blog) to be considered.
3.Multiple submissions encouraged.
4. This Contest is open for one week.
5. You must be willing to have your real name used.

Criteria for Consideration
1.This is Absolutely subjective.
2.My opinion is the only one that counts
3.making me laugh is a good idea but not mandatory
4.its better if its true, but its possible to be too truthful
5.Being famous will help

What I have so far:

My trip to the Quakers United in Publishing Conference in April pushed me over the final intellectual hurdle to self-publishing.

I have a bunch of good writing and good ideas on my computer and in my head.

I love the quality of our Faith and Practice Book and our local Press is helpful and swift.

The stigma attached to self-publishing has almost vanished.

The cost is not prohibitive.

Cutting out the middlepeople of editors and publisher doesn't hurt my feelings at all.

So I bought a block of ten ISBNs and here I go.

I am working with a selection of my So There I Was UPI columns.

I expect to have it in my hands by the fourth of July.

I am a bit of a site stats addict. I am so consistently curious about who comes and looks at this blog. Site meter has made this easy. Search engines have made this extremely complex. I'd say about half of the people who end up on this blog really know what they are looking for; repeat readers, people who know me, Quakers, etc.

But this blog has turned out to be pretty Googliscious, and some people end up here when they were actually searching for something else.

If you Google search the purported Chinese proverb "He who seeks revenge should dig two graves" - this post on this blog shows up at the top of the list. It is the most common random entry to my blog.

Even less helpful if you Google C. S. Lewis' term the "hounds of Heaven" you get my post on Duane 'Dog' Chapman - Dog the Bounty Hunter. It's often on the second screen of the Google search, but after the revenge search it is the second most common random visitor.

But more bizarre than either of those two is what I am calling the Kevin Sorbo effect. Kevin played Hercules on a camp TV show in the last decade. He was a babe back in the day. He shows up on my blog in this post
advertising a retreat on heroic living that I did in Portland last year.
Kevin, hunky though the picture is, was not really central to the point. Yet via the interwebs, people end up on my blog looking for him. My post is on the top line for the Google image results. I first noticed the KSE one day last fall when my hits suddenly went through the roof. I traced it to an influx of people looking for the picture of Kevin. Mostly international searches. It lasted for a day or two and then went away. Odd. Then a couple of months later another wave of KSE. It comes like sun spots. The blog is presently in a particularly hot season of Kevin Sorbo hunting. It has caused me to do Google searches to see what Kevin is up to that causes the craving for hercules pictures. I have not found much correlation. I can only guess that the syndicatin has made it to international satellite TV.

But the truly weird thing is that about 25% of KS searchers who end up on my blog stay and read one or more other pages.

So welcome fans of Kevin Sorbo! Somebody use the comments button and tell me why you are looking for him.




I mean. other than the obvious reasons.




in re-posting this I am aware that I am shamelessly re-inforcing the effect.
HA

Thanks Quaker Agitator for this;

I had kinda a rough day at class. I am passing it on to my Friend Mike, cause he's having a rough day too. And for Steve, even though he passed the flu around.

I feel better now.



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