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Wednesday, December 13, 2017

Yet Another Mall

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Sam Greening: Huntsville AL; I am an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ, and I've served congregations in the USA, Colombia, Puerto Rico, and Europe. I received a B.A. in German from the University of Louisville and learned Spanish in Bogotá. My Master of Divinity degree is from Drew University in New Jersey. I am currently the intentional interim pastor at the United Church of Huntsville in Alabama. The opinions found on Opossum Screed are my own and are not intended to reflect the views of the church I am serving.

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My Daily Devotions

I've divided the psalter into 365 portions, and post a new psalm passage on this blog each day, usually along with a brief observation and prayer. These are my own personal daily devotions.

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Sweet 16 Current or Recent Reads (dice-rated from 1 to 6)

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (Benjamin Alire Sáenz) ⚅
By the Ionian Sea: Notes of a Ramble in Southern Italy (George Gissing) ⚂
Carnelian: Chalcedony Chronicles 1 (B. Kristin McMichael) ⚁
City of Illusions (Ursula K. Le Guin) ⚃
Educated: A Memoir (Tara Westover) ⚂
Emergence: Foreigner Series 19 (C.J. Cherryh) ⚅
Evans Above (Rhys Bowen) ⚃
The High Mountains of Portugal (Yann Martel) ⚅
In the Middle of Somewhere (Roan Parrish) ⚃
Kidnapped (Robert Louis Stevenson) ⚃
Less: A Novel (Andrew Sean Greer) ⚄
Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression—and the Unexpected Solutions (Johann Hari) ⚄
On Tyranny:Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Timothy Snyder) ⚅
The Persimmon Tree (Bryce Courtenay) ⚄
Test Drive: Crossroads 3 (Riley Hart) ⚃
A Wrinkle in TIme (Madeleine L'Engle) ⚃

My Desert Island Books
*indicates the first in a series

The Art of Divine Contentment (Thomas Watson)
Cambridge Study Bible: NRSV without Apocrypha
A Diary of Private Prayer (John Baillie)
The Dollmaker (Hariette Arnow)
The Elegance of the Hedgehog (Muriel Barbery)
*The Fellowship of the Ring (J.R.R. Tolkien)
*Foreigner (C.J. Cherryh)
*Gilead (Marilynne Robinson)
The Gypsies (Jan Yoors)
*Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (J.K. Rowling)
Heidelberg Catechism
Institutes of the Christian Religion (John Calvin)
The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come (John Fox, Jr.)
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the 20th Century (Timothy Snyder)
Timbered Choir A: The Sabbath Poems 1979-1997 (Wendell Berry)
*Tom Slade Boy Scout (Percy Keese Fitzhugh)
Two Years before the Mast (Richard Henry Dana)
Whistling Season (Ivan Doig)

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Liturgy & Hymnody

A New Zealand Prayer Book (Anglican)
Book of Common Prayer (Episcopal)
Book of Common Worship (PCUSA)
Célébrer Dieu
CyberHymnal
Glory to God (PCUSA Hymnal)
New Century Hymnal (UCC)
Reformierte Liturgie: Gebete und Ordnungen für die unter dem Wort versammelte Gemeinde
UCC Worship Resources
United Methodist Hymnal

Online Bible Resources

1599 Geneva Bible
Bible Gateway (English & Foreign Language Bibles)
Bibles in former Soviet languages
Concordance
German Evangelical Perikopen
Oremus (NRSV, etc.)
Revised Common Lectionary
Tageslosung
The Text This Week
Zürcher Bibel

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Statements of Faith

All Things Work Together (Rom. 8:28-30)
Apostles Creed
Barmen Declaration (1934)
Belhar Confession (1986)
Boston Declaration (2017)
Canons of Dort (1619)
Dual Nature of Christ (451)
Evangelical Catechism (1929)
First Song of Isaiah (12:2-6)
God's Plan of Salvation (Eph. 1:3-14)
Heidelberg Catechism (1563)
Heidelberg Catechism (var. languages)
Institutes of the Christian Religion (1560)
Kansas City Statement of Faith (1913)
Nicene Creed
Our Help Is in the Name of the Lord (Ps. 124:8)
Our World Belongs to God (CRC 2008)
Preëminence of the Head of the Church (Col. 1:15-20)
Savoy Declaration (1658)
Scots Confession (1560)
Second Helvetic Confession (1562/4)
Statement of Faith of the UCC (1959)
Ten Theses of Berne (1528)
The Lord Is My Shepherd (Ps. 23)
The Name of Jesus (Philip. 2:1-22)
The Word Became Flesh (John 1:1-5, 9-14)
Toward the 21st Century (1993)
UCC Testimonies of Faith
Westminster Confession (1646)
Westminster Larger Catechism (1647)
Westminster Shorter Catechism (1647)

Sports Favorites

Atlantic Coast Conference
NCAA: Louisville Cardinals
EPL: West Bromwich Albion
Bundesliga: 1. FSV Mainz 05
Liga Águila: Independiente Santa Fe
FIFA: Colombia
MLB: NY Mets
NFL: Detroit Lions

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Faith Blog Roll

Religion News Service

Appreciation: Philip Roth belongs in canon of greatest American authors
GetReligion

Fertility frontier: Washington Post delves into God's work vs. that of modern science
Ligonier Ministries Blog

What Is the Name That Is above All Names?
Jesus Creed

Thank You Rod Dreher, Shame On Rick Patrick
Reformation21 Blog

Truth in Minor Keys (Derek Thomas)
Ron Edmondson

7 Bottlenecks a Leader Must Avoid
The Bible for Normal People

There are No Contradictions in the Bible (Yeah, You Heard Me)
Desiring God

What to Do When God Feels Absent
nakedpastor

When Was Your First Crisis of Faith?
Velveteen Rabbi

When surprises turn out just right: a conversion, though not as I planned
Church Marketing Sucks

Get a Taste of Creative Missions
Doing Life Together

Are You Commitment Phobic?
Opossum Screed

The Desires of Your Heart
Idol Chatter

How Tyler Perry Found God
Whispers in the Loggia

Doubling Down – Bishops’ Fates In the Balance, Pope To Consult Chile Victims. Again.
Simply Fabulous

Led by the Spirit
Faith, Media & Culture

Goodness Reigns Filmmaker Contest
Hacking Christianity

Schism, Expulsion, and Diversity: #UMC Unity’s Varied Definitions
Red Letter Christians

‘The Sermon That Stole the Show’
Roger E. Olson

Who Is the Ruler of this World? An Answer for Bible-believing Christians
Carey Nieuwhof

CNLP 193: Clay Scroggins on How the Digital Disruption is Changing Everything For Churches and Businesses
john pavlovitz

A Letter to Young White Men About What the World Owes You
Becoming Minimalist

One Daily Reminder We Need to Read Every Morning this Summer
Daily Reflections (St James)

May 18 – May 25, 2018
Good News Magazine

What the Bishops Really Did
Homebrewed Christianity

Evil: Part 2
Jennie Allen

What it means to be free. {A Big Announcement!}
Micah J. Murray

How I Manage to Still Be a Christian
Unfundamentalist Christians

11 Bible Verses That Turn Christians Into Atheists
Jade Mountain Buddha Hall

Why am I Doing This?
At the Intersection of Faith and Culture

Is McCain a “War Hero?”
You Can Sit With Us

So Will I
John Shore

Mother’s Day for the Rest of Us
Reformation Theology

The Doctrines of Grace Series
Jamie the Very Worst Missionary

Censoring the Very Worst Missionary: A How To Guide
Through the Lens of Faith

Doors to opportunity
Raheel Raza's Blog

TERROR IN TORONTO!
Zack Hunt

BIG NEWS: I’m Moving!!
MandM

On alleged Victim’s of Church abuse… “Can you blame them?”…. “Yes I can”
Sarah Bessey

My Favourite Books to Empower Women Who Preach
Cassandra Today

Phases
Common Word, Common Lord

Of Passover and Doctor’s Day: A Fitting Coincidence
Lutheran news & social issues

February 2018 news
Prayer, Plain and Simple

A Morning Prayer
Nadia Bolz-Weber

My 2018 Speaking Schedule (minus Fall book events)
More Than This with Sheridan Voysey

Got Some Goals for the New Year? Great. Just Don’t Forget This
Progressive Christianity

As Legends Go
Christian Piatt

More Than Jezebel (Third Week Advent Devotional)
City of Brass

Al-Fateha
Muslim Matters

The Day We Really Lost Jerusalem
New Sacred

American Jesus
Fellowship of Saints and Sinners

The Loneliness Epidemic – and Faith-Filled Tools for Coping
Jayson D. Bradley

When Someone Asks “Why Doesn’t the Church Ever Talk about Sin?”
Reconciling Ministries Network

New Reconciling Community in Oklahoma City, OK
A Venerable Company

Fear Transformed
Sparks from the Soul

The Cure for Comparison
Pyromaniacs

Promises
East Meets West

Willpower
dhamma musings

Burmese Art At The Museum
Pastor Robert Hurst

It Is Time
La Jolla UCC

Farewell
A Pastor's Notebook

This is way too much sermon, to be honest
Haudenschild Blog

What same-sex "marriage" has done to Massachusetts
Cut the Crap Spirituality

Cat’s In the Cradle
Dream Gates

Approaching Halloween: when the veil between the world thins
Commonsense Christianity

Three “Christian” Teachings That Jesus Didn’t Teach
Peter Enns

my last Patheos post…
Islam In America

“Of Dogs, Faith and Islam”
A Journey to Remember

The Danger of Fear
Inspiring Athletes

A conversation with Sprint Cup driver Austin Dillon
Thinking Christianity

The Spiritual Life of an Apologist
Whole Notes

A conversation with pastor, author and songwriter Louie Giglio
Aw C'Mon God Gimme a Break

God Bless My Powerful & Painted Big Toes…& Wise Jellyfish
Mercy not Sacrifice

I’ve moved!!! Please check me out at Patheos
Faith & Justice

Jay Sekulow: Will the State Department finally speak out for Pastor Saeed Abedini?
Comments on: Blog
Gospel Coalition Blogs
Kalotaszegi Református Egyházmegye

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Language Blogs

Superlinguo

lingthusiasm: Lingthusiasm Episode 20: Speaking Canadian and...
Grammarist

Take at face value
Language Log

Lant
Code Switch

My Father Stood For The Anthem, For The Same Reason That Colin Kaepernick Sits
Bad Newspaper

The ultimate in protection.
Omniglot blog

Blundering about, eyes closed
Grammarphobia

Backstage with ‘crisis actors’
About Words – Cambridge Dictionaries Online blog

Out of the blue (Words and phrases for unexpected events)
languagehat.com

Appajava.
All Things Linguistic

6 years of All Things Linguistic
Australian Aboriginal Languages Student Blog

The educational importance and preservation of language through oral history and song.
A Way with Words

Jump Steady (Rebroadcast) - 21 May 2018
Language on the Move

In search of myself
Itchy Feet

My Way
...And Read All Over

Dictionary.com is picking up their slack
Terribly Write

What can you glean from this?
Strong Language

Plenty of Cock to Go Around
The Ling Space

We’re getting ready to start posting again - we’ve got some...
Sentence first

Verbing and nouning are fine and here’s a quiz
The Ramblings of a Proto-Linguist

wuglife: allthingslinguistic: Phoneme Synthesis is a nifty...
The Lingua File

5 Reasons to Spend Your Gap Year Studying a Foreign Language Abroad by Leila Dorari
Travelengua

Post-Graduate School Goals
language: a feminist guide

Is ‘terrorism’ the right word?
Literal-Minded

She Never Saw a Dog and Didn’t Smile
a-thousand-words

"Just because things hadn’t gone the way I’d planned didn’t necessarily mean they’d gone wrong."
Apostrophe Catastrophes

Lucky Apostrophe Catastrophe
Wordnik

It’s official! Wordnik is now a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit!
Glossologics

Birth
Endangered Languages & Cultures

Merging SayMore audio snippets into a single wav file
separated by a common language

The book! The book!
harm·less drudg·ery

Down the “Shithole”: Why Lexicographers Need Your Profanity
This Blog is Full of Words

2017 in Star Wars
that munanga linguist

English-only health alert for Ngukurr, now with draft Kriol translation (cos there really should be one)
Words & Worlds of New York

2017: Bad for Politics, Good for Pimsleur
It's Your Damned Language

The GOP Wants to Fuck Consumers
OzPapersOnline

Documenting sociolinguistic variation
The League of Nerds

Art on the Clock
Mental Floss

Check Out Friday's Awesome Amazon Deals
Word Jazz

Don’t Go Gentle: Writing Colourful With(out) Adverbs
Culture Matters

How to write a book review
Fully (sic)

Goodbye, Dolly!
Other-Wordly

other-wordly: words to surprise, delight, and enamor: terms...
Apostrophe Abuse

Two for the price of one!
After Deadline

A Lineup of Missteps
A Walk in the World of WoRds

Writing, Writing, Writing
Grammarly Blog
OxfordWords Blog
Lingua Franca

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Sports Blog Roll

ACC Basketball (Bleacher Report)

Judge Rules Louisville Made 'Deliberate Attempt' to Hide Basketball Scandals
Card Chronicle

Wednesday afternoon Cardinal news and notes
A Sea Of Blue

The 3 Best Landing Spots for Karl-Anthony Towns
Yardbarker: Louisville Cardinals

Louisville blasts Wake Forest 10-2 in ACC tournament opener
College Spun

The 10 Worst 2019 Recruiting Classes In College Football So Far
SCACCHoops

Virginia basketball forgot the internet holds receipts
BC Interruption

Boston College Women’s Soccer Alumna Laura Georges Retires From Play
Troy Nunes Is An Absolute Magician

Virginia basketball forgot the internet holds receipts (LINKS)
Louisville Athletics

Stowers, Detmers Lead No. 24 Louisville in Victorious ACC Opener
Tar Heel Blog

UNC Recruiting: Wendell Moore on Carolina, the FBI, and his decision timeline
Tomahawk Nation

Tracking FSU football in the too-early Top 25 polls
Shakin The Southland

ACC Baseball Tournament Preview: Notre Dame vs Clemson
Duke Report

WATCH: Five-Star Wendell Moore Breaks Down His Top 5 Schools
UofL Card Game

Louisville Polo saddles up for UofL medical research
State of The U

Jaquan Johnson’s Resemblance To UM Greats
Blogger So Dear

Men’s Tennis: Wake Forest Wins First NCAA National Championship
ACC Football Rx

ACC Network news and rumors - 5/23/18
All Sports Discussion

Miami’s Five best Out of Conference Football wins of the 2010s through 2017
Cardiac Hill

Pitt baseball defeats Georgia Tech in ACC Tournament
Backing The Pack

FSU beats UVA 3-2, setting up Seminoles-Wolfpack showdown for Pool C in ACC tournament
Cardinal Sports Zone

Donovan Mitchell Rookie Season Highlights (Video)
The Cardinal Connect

Lance Thomas Will Transfer From Louisville
The Crunchzone

Lance Thomas Granted Release to Transfer
ACC Football (Bleacher Report)

FSU OL Josh Ball Reportedly Suspended by University Judicial Panel
From The Rumble Seat

What’s next for GT basketball Post-Okogie?
Gobbler Country

Hokie Sports Round Up
Streaking The Lawn

Virginia football recruiting roundup: Good news on horizon?
WBA Mad

5 Things You Didn't Know About Darren Moore
Teel Time

U.Va. AD Williams puts basketball opponents on notice
Louisville Sports Live

Taking it One Day at a Time: A Guide to Following Louisville Basketball Recruiting
ND Nation

Notes from the Geetar: Hath Spring Sprung?
Bleacher Report - Louisville Cardinals Football

Lamar Jackson Doing Himself Few Favors at Combine—and Good for Him
Rick Pitino Official Website

Summer Update
Russdiculous

Extreme Measures
Jon B Around the World

Fez
05er Fanblog

Das Ende einer schönen Zeit
ACC Insider

College sports digest: Wednesday, Sept. 7
West Bromwich Albion Blog

West Brom blog: Red don't Mata, as the stripes go marching on!
Mainz 05

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Miscellaneous Blog Roll

Travel Blog

Switzerland too perfect for words
UofL News

UofL double-alum named Small Business Leader of the Year
Colossal

Swirls of Electrifying Ink and Found Crystal Formations Transformed into Hair by Lorna Simpson
The Phoblographer

Nikon Reported to Take Aim at the A7 III, But Do They Have a Chance?
Timothy McSweeney’s Internet Tendency

A Feminist Fever Dream Written By a Men’s Rights Activist
Interior Design Ideas

33 Dazzling White Dining Rooms Plus Tips To Help You Accessorize Yours
Chase Jarvis Photography

Designing a Big Life /w Kevin Rose, Kelly Wearstler, and Tan France
The BlueMahler (Alfred Eaker)

SEA OF ROSARIES: Annunciation
Lost At E Minor

5 movies you NEED to watch purely for their epic soundtracks
Bourbon Guy

Maker's Mark: Seared Bu 1-3
Humans of New York

“I’m just beginning art school. I’m trying to find my own voice...
Design Clever

novum – world of graphic design – issue 06.18 – graphic design x...
Kárpátutak: Erdély

Pünkösdi utazás, 2009. május 26. és június 2. között - A Székely Gyors megérkezése Gyimesbükkre, Pünkösd vasárnapján
Design is fine

Reuben Haley, Ruba Rombic Vase, 1928. Molded glass. Made by...
BourbonBlog

WhistlePig FarmStock Rye Whiskey Crop 002, “Triple Terroir”
Bourbonr Blog

Review: Old Fitzgerald Bottled-In-Bond
Medellin Living

Bardesono: Blending Live Music and Fine Dining in Poblado
Thistle & Shamrock

May 17, 2018
Colombia Travel Blog

Amores Colombianos – Un especial del día de San Valentín 2018
Jonathan Renshaw

Book 2 – Behind the Scenes
The Awl

New York City, January 30, 2018
Baubauhaus.

Fons Hickmann, graphic design, poster
Gizmodo

Everything You Need to Know About 'Cleganebowl,' Game of Thrones' Most Hyped Fan Theory
Baunau

isentropie: JORDY VAN DEN NIEUWENDIJK NICE.
Blog About Beer

10 Beer T-Shirts Any Beer Lover Could Wear
Visual Sundae

Farewell and Thanks!
Flak Photo

Mona Kuhn, AD 6309
Hello Huntsville

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Current Events Blog Roll

Raw Story

Fox News host falsely claims ‘there are 2,000 MS-13 members on Long Island alone’ — here’s the real stat
Eschaton

Evening Thread
Talking Points Memo

Special Prosecutor Begins Interviews With Schneiderman Accusers
NPR News

Most States Don't Require Guns To Be Locked Up
MSNBC

The ‘inconvenient’ truth: Trump uses unsecured cell phone
AlterNet

U.S. Ambassador Who Resigned This Year Publicly Compares Trump to a 'Velociraptor'
Salon

Broadway director George C. Wolfe on Eugene O’Neill and the strange music of “The Iceman Cometh”
Towleroad

Pete Souza, James Comey, Disney, Shawn Mendes, Summa Cum Laude, Harvey Milk Vodka, Runaway Horse: HOT LINKS
Joe.My.God.

POLL: 59% Believe Mueller Has Uncovered No Crimes
Vox

NFL’s new policy: players who kneel during the national anthem may face a fine
Crooks and Liars

'An Assault On The Truth': MSNBC Host Warns Viewers Before Airing Trump Rant
Balloon Juice

Going Full Trump: Walker Stapleton
Wonkette

Y’all Getting Rowdy In Here?
Truthdig

The Tired Trope of Blaming Trump on ‘Liberal Smugness’
Daily Kos

White House restores Jared Kushner's top security clearance—everything just fine now
Pharyngula

Motivation for vegetarians
Political Animal

What’s Old Is New Again
OpEdNews

One BIG PRICK in World History, talking about things that are directly related to Israel genocide of Palestinians today
ThinkProgress

Denying transgender prisoners health care violates the Constitution, federal judge rules
The Knowledge You Crave

Someone Threw Water At Racist Fox News Ditz Tomi Lahren And It Was Glorious
FiveThirtyEight

J.D. Martinez Doesn’t Need The Green Monster
No More Mister Nice Blog

LET'S NOT GET TOO EXCITED ABOUT THAT TEACHER WINNING IN KENTUCKY
Calculated Risk

Black Knight: National Mortgage Delinquency Rate Decreased in April, Foreclosure Inventory Lowest since August 2006
NewsHounds blog

The Chilling Implications Of Hegseth’s Normalizing Kim Jong-Un’s Murder Of North Koreans
In These Times

What We Can Learn From How Laura Moser Made the Democratic Establishment Sweat
Science of Us

Why Do Queer Women Have More Health Problems Than Straight Women?
Hungarian Free Press

Campaign to expel Fidesz from the European People’s Party
Left Foot Forward

How ‘Accountable Care Organisations’ threaten the very existence of our NHS
The Smirking Chimp

How the Trump Family Sold U.S. Foreign Policy to the Highest Bidder
Times of Central Asia

Kyrgyzstan: ethnic minorities need equal treatment, says senior UN official
Shadowproof

Protest Song Of The Week: ‘Outnumbered’ By The HIRS Collective
Echidne of the Snakes

Three Unexamined Assumptions in The Theory Of Male-Incels-As-Unserved-Customers-In-The-Sexual-Marketplace
Capitol Hill Blue

Trump, the pedophile and his criminal fundraiser in deals with Saudi Arabia
Equitable Growth

The links between stagnating wages and buyer power in U.S. supply chains
Greg Palast

Free Speech TV & MNN Presents… Elections 2018: Voting Rights Under Attack
Eclectablog

The ‘War on Work’ is a crisis on par with climate change
Hungarian Spectrum

Signs of life
Generación Y

Pedimos transparencia en la investigación sobre la tragedia aérea
PanAm Post

Scandal in Argentina: Nazi Teacher Fired after Student Video Goes Viral
Politicus USA

Trump Is Destroying Himself By Demanding That The White House Never Apologize
Alastair Campbell

RIP TESSA JOWELL, A WONDERFUL WOMAN, A SUPERB POLITICIAN, AND THE KINDEST FRIEND
Labour Uncut

The shame of Barnet: losing a council because the voters think you’re racist
Moron Majority

Is Dr. Ronny Jackson Really an MD?
Political Scrapbook

Top Tories were star guests at ‘misleading’ DUP fundraisers
Grumbles From an Old Grouch

Jim Bakker: God-Haters Working To Remove Crosses From Arlington National Cemetery
BlueOregon

Tell Republicans: Reject the NRA
Liberal Oasis

This Is Not Normal Episode 30: All Too Normal
Mother Jones

That's It For Today
Mother Jones

That's It For Today
MyDD

Hyundai Santa Fe Helps Artists Do A 3D Scan Of Yosemite Valley
Breaking Views

Scandal in Seoul masks bigger economic problems
Progressive Writers

Why you should consider taking a vacation from work
The Huffington Post

Breaking Down Barriers in Sexual and Reproductive Health Reporting in Africa
Liberal Conspiracy

Cameron’s case for attacking ISIS in Syria is flimsy, but I can see why Labour MPs would go with it
Progress Central

Obama’s International Tax Plan Attacks Offshore Tax Havens
The Left Coaster

Saying goodbye to the AdSense for Feeds blog
Media Matters
The Progressivist

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