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ramblings of a freelance panentheist {"all things are in God, and God is in all things"} . . . musings on Emergent spirituality, powerlifting, LGBTQueer issues, contemplative prayer, mysticism, cats, music, healing, and more. I like my coffee and my existentialism dark-roasted.

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I'm an LPC (Licensed Professional Counselor), in private practice in Marietta, Georgia. I'm an Episcopagan who is involved in the Emergent Christian conversation. My writings on queer spirituality have been published in Whosoever and several other magazines. I live in a house-in-the-woods (Bear's Hermitage) in Marietta with Leonidas (Lenny) and Guy, Mighty Warrior Cats, and way too many books.


Sunday, August 28, 2005

Episcopal Squirrels

A joke I've seen several places on the internet . . .

Three churches in a small town found that their church buildings had become over-run with squirrels.

The Presbyterian church decided that it was pre-destined that the squirrels would be there and therefore left the squirrels to their own devices.

The Unitarian church decided the best measure was to humanely trap the squirrels and take them to a nice place in the woods. Naturally the squirrels returned three days later.

The Episcopal church decided to have the squirrels baptized and confirmed. Now the squirrels only come to church on Christmas and Easter.

6 Comments:

Blogger AP3 said...

That's cute! I'll share it with my churchy friends...

9:46 PM, August 28, 2005  
Blogger isaiah said...

HA!...and there you have it!

11:52 AM, August 29, 2005  
Blogger VirusHead said...

Hee-hee.

Ever hear how the KKK tried to rid a town of Unitarians? They burned a huge question mark.

My dad used the following religious scale (bear in mind that he was a Jehovah's Witness himself!):

Methodists = Baptists that can read
Presbyterians = Methodists with money
Catholics = Presbyterians with a marketing strategy

11:55 AM, August 29, 2005  
Blogger Trev Diesel said...

Hope you're safe down there near Atlanta! I know it's crazy there right now!

Prayers and blessings...

11:07 AM, August 30, 2005  
Blogger gratefulbear said...

Thanks, Trev. We did have some tornado warnings and severe thunderstorms, but nothing as severe as what New Orleans experienced. With my chronic pain condition, though, I'm a human barometer, so I was up most of the night with the pain as well as with sinus pressure. The little feline allergen (Kato the mystical cat) sleeping in our bed doesn't help, I know, but I just can't kick him out when he wants to cuddle between us in a storm...

11:39 AM, August 30, 2005  
Blogger dddragon said...

A man goes to a Unitarian Universalist service for the first time, and later is asked what he thought of it.

"Darndest church I ever went to," he replies. "The only time I heard the name of Jesus Christ was when the janitor fell down the stairs!"

(I've got more...)

8:36 PM, September 01, 2005  

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