From Inspectah Deck's New Charlotte Office. . .

I strongly encourage you to find and read an article entitled "The Coming Evangelical Collapse" that is currently posted on the website of the Christian Science Monitor. The article is written by Michael Spencer. I'd love to know what you think.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0310/p09s01-coop.html

It's a Blockbuster night at 10 Downing Street!

Alright, so our president gave their prime minister a gift of 25 dvds. What's up Gordon Brown - you better come strong when Obama crosses the pond! You're going to have to do better than that red, white, and blue festooned Rolls Royce you have picked out. Show some class and have wrapped the latest Harry Potter book - and make that a hardcover kid!

Gleanings from Lost Hours

"Come away with me and they won't see us for the dust!" Great line for sure. It loses it luster not a little, however, when it is learned that the inspiration for such an exclamation was a married woman and the caller a married man. The bloom is lopped clean off the rose when it is further revealed that the adulteress was shortly thereafter hacked to pieces with an ax whose wielder was the adulterer's deranged butler. The tragic couple: Frank Lloyd Wright and Mamah Cheney. The place: Taliesin in Wisconsin. Had they only read Anna Karenina or noticed Lazarus at the gate.

My sometimes Irish Idee Fixe

As I stood in line at the Best Buy here in Augusta to dutifully buy the latest U2 album I got to thinking back over some of the other times and places I picked up one of their records. Here are the ones I could remember in chronological order:
1) The Joshua Tree purchased at the Idyllwild Pharmacy in Idyllwild, California. Trent McGath
played this album devotionally all summer and when he left to go back to Twin Peaks I
realized I was hooked.
2) Achtung Baby purchased at the Ben Franklin in Fair Haven, Vermont. This is still the single
record of transportation for me - and to think - I almost spent the $7.99 on licorice and such.
3) Zooropa purchased somewhere in the bleak and blighted north end of Pittsfield,
Massachussetts -probably the K-Mart. I can't hear the title track or Stay (Faraway, so
Close!) without thinking of BICS.
4) Pop purchased at the Wal-Mart in Toccoa, Georgia. I can't say if that was the first time I
felt old or the first time I realized I was already too old; but listening to
Miami in my dorm room I knew the spell was broken
5) All That You Can't Leave Behind purchased in Augusta. I always think of my time in
Wenham, South Hamilton, and Benson when I here this one. Listening to Walk On with
white knuckles as I steered the Caprice home to Benson after guarding the College of St.
Joseph's against itself all night as the snow piled up.
6) How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb purchased at the Target on Southern in Tempe,
Arizona. I always think of my drives across the Sonoran desert to visit Josh, Sarah, and
the Tates in California when I hear this album.

I know I bought other albums; but can't say where or when. I'm certainly not the biggest U2 fan in the world or even the family but they've provided a pretty cool soundtrack for several passages in my life. What images will be jogged when I hear a few notes from No Line On the Horizon?

All my original thoughts were used up yesterday.

Here's a spiritual take on Shakespeare's line in As You Like It ~

Christians are April at the altar and December at the abacus.