Targuman » Comic http://targuman.org/blog Translating my thoughts into words. Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:13:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Translating my thoughts into words. Christian Brady no Christian Brady cbrady@targuman.org cbrady@targuman.org (Christian Brady) Translating my thoughts into words. Targuman » Comic http://targuman.org/blog/wp-content/plugins/powerpress/rss_default.jpg http://targuman.org/blog/category/comic/ Seems fair enough… http://targuman.org/blog/2012/01/17/seems-fair-enough/ http://targuman.org/blog/2012/01/17/seems-fair-enough/#comments Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:29:41 +0000 Christian Brady http://targuman.org/blog/?p=6022

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal.

 
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Now we have an early dinner, my current dish is Cornish game hens with cranberry relish, then attend the early, children’s service, and bring them home, have chocolate crepes for desert (a byproduct of Christmas Day breakfast), and try and get them to sleep. Then we return to our prior tradition, but only after playing a bit of Santa Claus. Our son will be 8 next month and has his suspicions, but we are pleased to continue the illusion just a bit longer. Tomorrow morning after the gift frenzy we will have the wonderful sausage crepes that my wife made earlier (see the chocolate crepes referred to earlier) and then…relax.

Throughout the entire Advent season we focus upon the fact that await the coming of Jesus, then and now. This season, as always, there have been good sermons and bad, politicians abusing the faith, and clergy feeling the need to trample on orthodoxy and children’s fantasies. None of that can obscure the fact: He came as one of us, for us, so that we might live. That is the tradition that we all share.

Have a happy Christmas, whatever your tradition dictates, and may the blessings of Christ be with you all.

 
]]> http://targuman.org/blog/2011/12/24/christmas-traditions/feed/ 0 Top Ten Most important things this year http://targuman.org/blog/2011/12/21/top-ten-most-important-things-this-year/ http://targuman.org/blog/2011/12/21/top-ten-most-important-things-this-year/#comments Wed, 21 Dec 2011 19:30:15 +0000 Christian Brady http://targuman.org/blog/?p=5910 I am telling you folks, Coffee with Jesus impresses me. It clearly offends some, but whoever writes this understands the biblical Jesus. Take today’s strip on what should be on a year end Top Ten list.

 
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]]> http://targuman.org/blog/2011/12/12/jesus-and-peer-review/feed/ 0 The true spirit of Christmas http://targuman.org/blog/2011/12/03/the-true-spirit-of-christmas/ http://targuman.org/blog/2011/12/03/the-true-spirit-of-christmas/#comments Sat, 03 Dec 2011 14:16:39 +0000 Christian Brady http://targuman.org/blog/?p=5867
Earlier this week I noted this comic “Coffee With Jesus” which I had not read before. One commentator felt that it was a clever premise, but that it was a shame they didn’t do something “more productive with it.” I replied and maintain that if you liked CS Lewis’ The Screwtape Letters you might like these. They are modernizations, to be sure, but they are very much in the same vein. Yesterday’s strip was even more clearly part of this genre and timely too.
Oh, and please feel free to remind those who feel using “X” for “Christ” (in Christmas) is an attack on the holiday and Christianity that “X” has been a symbol for Christ for millennia: χριστός.
 
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  1. I have never come across “Radio Free Babylon” either, so I offer no valuation of its quality, worth, heresy, orthodoxy, or ability to make My Little Pony seem like a cynical drug-addled view of the world.
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Scenes from a Multiverse by Jason Rosenberg

 
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Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt

Or if you prefer a more traditional squirrel, this one was outside my garage the other day.
Squirrel

 
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From: Shannon Wheeler

 
]]> http://targuman.org/blog/2011/10/12/its_not_the_beard/feed/ 0 It’s not easy being the Almighty http://targuman.org/blog/2011/09/19/its-not-easy-being-the-almighty/ http://targuman.org/blog/2011/09/19/its-not-easy-being-the-almighty/#comments Mon, 19 Sep 2011 14:15:59 +0000 Christian Brady http://targuman.org/blog/?p=5695 It can be tough to give up on our dreams, hopes, and aspiration. Even for God. To find out why God is wearing a sarong and to enjoy the well-drawn and overly pompous 9 Chickweed Lane by Brooke McEldowney. (It’s not his fault, he was a church music director. That has to have some residual ramifications in one’s life.)

 
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