Silent Servants...

Silent Servants...

... of the Used, Abused, and Utterly Screwed Up.

A Secular Franciscan looks at the world...
with a more jaundiced eye than ever...
and lots of ellipses for you to fill in the missing text...
(with thanks to Thomas S. Klise for the title)



Thursday, January 20, 2011

Close


but not quite.

Ice-cold water washes in Russia’s Epiphany

Jesus wasn't "baptized into the Christian faith in the river Jordan." He was baptized in the river Jordan, true, but there wasn't a Christian faith at the time.

Still, I have to hand it to those courageous Orthodox Christians. It's not likely that I'd be tempted into an icy plunge like that...



2 comments:

Anonymous said...

heh. Speaking of skimpy clothing .... :-)

James said...

*br-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r*

heh...
:-)