Confessions of a Liberal Puritan

Unfortunately, this story isn't nearly as titillating or romantic as that title might suggest. But it does feature an attractive stranger in black leather astride a powerful Harley-Davidson motorcycle coming to my rescue!

The good news is that I'm fine and home in Nashville, safe and sound. The bad news is that my car is dead and parked (safely) off a major highway about an hour's drive from my home, until I can find a mechanic to work on it (couldn't find one open on Sunday in that mostly rural locale), so I'm without wheels for the foreseeable future.

But it could have gone much worse, if it weren't for the kindness of the nice young man on the Harley, who pulled over when he saw me standing helplessly next to my car (wondering which farmhouse to try to walk to in order to call for help) and took a major detour out of his way to a Harley rally in Lynchburg, TN, in order to help me out. ( Read more... )

Thank God for good Samaritans in black leather with cute black pony-tails peeping out from under their helmets who ride Harleys!

Just a quick note about the movie "Saved!", which I saw and mostly found very funny yesterday afternoon. I'll try to avoid spoilers and just speak in general terms about certain aspects of the film which I thought maybe didn't work so well.
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I don't mind a good critique of Christianity -- I even get paid to do it myself on a regular basis from the pulpit -- but I do object to the movie not taking the the same critical light it had shed on its particular BRAND of Christian faith and shedding it also on the 'alternative' faith proclaimed by its young heroes at the end. That's just kind of a weak ending and cop-out for a very acerbic, often funny, and sometimes sort of insightful movie.

So, "thumbs up" -- but with all critical faculties engaged and on high alert.