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("A visitor to the Vatican was quite impressed with the beauty and power of the place. He asked Pope John XXIII this question: 'How many people do you have working here?' With a twinkle in his eye, the pope replied, 'About half of them'...")
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Proper 6B (2009)
("Annie Dillard wrote a book with the marvellous title Teaching a Stone to Talk. In it she said, 'Why do people in church seem like cheerful, brainless tourists on a packaged tour of the Absolute? On the whole, I do not find Christians, outside the catacombs, sufficiently sensible of the conditions..." and other illustrations)*The Third Ear and the Imagination of Jesus
("Every morning the early local newscast reports on how good or bad the daily commute is going. Strategically perched cameras and computer generated models show whether there is clear sailing or clogged arterials on the major commute-routes. Seattle is a city consistently in the Top 10 for its gelatinous traffic jams - the LA freeway is a breezeway compared to Seattle's Route 5 most of the time...")
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*Not the Purdue Way
("Every year millions of people go on diets. Again. And they try harder. And a few of them actually lose weight, for a while. But only one out of a thousand takes it off and keeps it off. The only people who are successfully dieting are anorexics...")In the Garden (Not THAT Garden!)
"Last year I read about a Century Plant growing at the University of Connecticut. This gigantic plant only blooms once in every hundred years – and most people would say that’s a really good thing. When it IS fully grown and opens up its flowering bud, its scent is grotesquely unappetizing..."*Seeds and Weeds
("Pliny the Elder, a Roman author writing at the same time as Jesus knew it well. This is what he wrote about it: 'With its pungent taste and fiery effect, mustard is extremely beneficial for the health. It grows entirely wild, though it is improved by being transplanted: but on the other hand, when it has once been sown, it is scarcely possible to get the place free of it...")Ordinary 11B (2006)
("Some people imagine that the passage of two millenia since Jesus' time has somehow diminished the first evangelical fervour of that mustard seed. I have to admit that, until I was myself sent on the missions, I would have been one of them. That was before I was sent to work in the Rupununi in South America, the Northern riverain of the Amazon...")*The Smallest Things
("Nick Thomas found himself at the age of forty-seven unemployed and under tremendous financial pressure. Though he had a successful career in the Air Force and the insurance business, some reversals had set him back and left him with no place to go. His wife, Liz, made their situation a matter of prayer..." and other illustrations)
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