Except that I don’t think March rolled “in like a lion;” at least it didn’t here. And why does this phrase borrow the Biblical “lamb and lion” imagery anyway?
There’s something unsettling in the contrast of having April Fool’s Day directly adjacent to Good Friday. Perhaps with that in mind, I thought we’d lead off with this picture:
She looks real, doesn’t she. This “cybernetic human” can act surprised, or angry, or any other emotion you want to program her to express. Unveiled in Japan on March 16th, you can see more robotics at Boston.com’s Big Picture site.
And then there’s this picture, source unknown, of the “Love Chapter” from I Corinthians expressed as a tattoo:
Not sure which translation this is, but then again, that raises the question: Are there King James Only tattoo parlors? If not, someone’s overlooking a major market.
Which brings us to this T-shirt:
But I’m getting distracted; we really should move on to the links:
- John Piper’s unexpected seven-month leave of absence — starting May 1st — was probably the story of the week in the Christian blogosphere. How will the multitude of his followers get by without their weekly dose of J.P.’s encyclicals? Read the official announcement at Desiring God.
- Speaking of the Pipester, here’s his rant on the whole Emergent church movement, which he figures is due to implode in about six seconds from now, with some additional commentary at Tall Skinny Kiwi.
- Theological finger-pointing at the Emergents continued over at Harvest Bible Chapel in NW Chicago on a recent Friday night Q&A session with a Moody Professor speaking for the anti-Emergent side while to balance things out they had… nobody. JR looks at this rather one-sided presentation in this report.
- Blogger Michael Krahn becomes a guest columnist at Canada’s Christian Week website; suggesting that all that technology has convinced us that we can’t sing. I wish this article was a bit longer, because there are implications for church worship that might have been considered in a longer piece. Check it out.
- And speaking of things from my home and native land, I want to totally show off Canada’s national Christian magazine, FaithToday. They’ve just started doing digital issues and if your internet connection is up for it, here’s a look at the March/April edition.
- One of my favorite authors, British humorist Adrian Plass joins with Jeff Lucas — who pastors on both sides of the Atlantic — are joining together for a new book, Seriously Funny. “Made up a letters between the two, ‘Seriously funny’ is an honest look at life, love, book-signings, Christian ‘celebrity’, church…” Check out the announcement at Christian Today.
- Here’s a follow-up to yesterday’s piece here on foot washing. Only this one, from last year, was a drive thru foot washing. Seriously.
- With all the interest in the Twilight books and movies, the Christian Post decided it was good time to interview former vampire-genre writer Anne Rice. Actually, they were promoting the I Am Second testimony website.
- Mark Sayers — whose DVD The Trouble With Paris was reviewed here — is up something big with this mystery project, Bordertown. You’ll have to sign up for the e-mail announcement.
- I usually lose patience waiting for their web server to keep up to speed, but for what it’s worth, GodTube is back. Apparently, like New Coke, the brand switch to Tangle didn’t take. John Scaddington reports.
- Described as “a little free-will humor;” the image below is from the blog Mockingbird.
- Our cartoon this week is from For Heaven’s Sake; reproduced here not because it’s anything you haven’t seen before, but so that you can copy and paste it to that person in your e-mail list who needs a not-so-subtle prod. Be tactful. Okay, maybe there’s no way to be tactful and send this out at the same time…
- Finally, the I Can Has Cheezburger (aka Lolcats) people have a new site, My Food Looks Funny. Maybe if the western world only ate as much as the person did who carved this, there would be enough food for everybody!
Thinking Out Loud 