Well, the remainder of the family leaves tomorrow, and I go back to work. It was a nice vacation (with a huge preaching event stuck in the middle) while it lasted.
Audio from the second sermon is up on the church website now. E-mail me if you want to know how to get to it.
This coming weekend’s sermon is about fighting the “dark arts” and there is tons to say about that in the books. My current wondering is whether there are any scenes and/or clips that would illuminate the theme without being incredibly scary. I love the boggart scene in Prisoner of Azkaban (RIDIKULUS!), but it’s a little too scary to show, and I like the way it goes down in the book better, yet the scene doesn’t lend itself to readers theater.
I e-mailed a former professor and editor of Small Preaching Journal to see if he’d be interested in an article about the series along with one of the sermons. I think it will come out in Pentecost 08. I told him the article would deal with the constant wrestling I am doing over this cockamamie idea. Fool for Christ, or just a fool? I have been a pretty committed lectionary preacher up to now, and deeply troubled about too much technology in worship. Have I sold out to the gods of consumerism and edutainment? Or am I modeling a way of engaging culture? I have a feeling I will reach the end of the series still not knowing what it is I’m doing. I’m surprisingly OK with that.
M’s word for button: butt.
C told me the entire three little pigs story today, with much flair and attention to detail. She and her cousins also performed a five-minute play based on the movie Shrek, complete with my brother dimming the house lights and providing prompting.
Tomorrow is the first day of ballet class for C. It is also M’s first day at L’s house for day care. It will be so nice to have the girls in the same place.
R felt Milber Silber kick the other night.
We leave for Scotland in 11 days. Yee-ikes. And yay! But wow, so much to do before then. I need a purse-sized bag with a long enough strap that I can wear it diagonally. And I am wondering whether I am too poochy to wear my non-maternity travel wool mix-and-match stuff.
I really want to buy Harry Potter 7 while I’m over there, but I think the UK cover is fugly.
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The last five days have been exhaustingly wonderful…I’m sorry to see the time together end, but will look forward to the next reunion, but when…you’ll have another wee one and so will your bro’… we’ll work it out somehow.
Re: Harry Potter UK Art.
There’s an article in this weeks (7/09/07) Time magazine about the new Harry Potter book, in an aside it talks about the US artist who has done all the US covers. Talking about the UK artwork it said (as far as I can recall)” … we in the US are lucky … “!!
If I email you my snail mail address and give you a way to pay for it, would you be willing to buy the UK version so that I can give it to my daughter?
She’s 15, she loves fugly.
Good luck with the packing and other last minute details!
Milber Silber! Yes!!!
It is a British Author … and I still find it amusing that the title of the first book was changed
I know it happens, but still funny
Check our the adults version you might like that more. And since you will be in Scotland I think you really ought to buy it there. And think you can read it ALL THE WAY HOME on that l-o-n-g flight IF you can wait that long
Sherry - rather than giving rm something else to do on her trip, I’m very happy to sort out sending it to you if you want to email me. revmyname at g*o*o*g**l*e*mail dot com..
Isn’t it odd how we get used to a particular style…my daughter came across a US edition of The Philosopher’s Stone, and aside from confusion re different title and lost associations, was very clear that the cover didn’t look “right”…Oh, we’re such creatures of habit
RM, I bought a bag for my Jordan trip that you are welcome to borrow. It’s from Eddie Bauer, so picture khaki. It’s quite roomy. R.
Kathryn, I am sure the US edition would look quite drab if I were from the other side of the pond!
It’s a shame that they changed the title here. People who are nervous about magic just went over the edge with the “sorcerer” thing. “Philosopher’s stone” evokes less of a knee-jerk reaction, but I’m sure it would have sold fewer copies. I won’t speculate on why that is lest I devolve into nation-bashing.
CN, that would be great. I’ll take a look tomorrow.
We have the UK editions of all the HP books, courtesy of a friend who lives in England. I like them much better than the US editions. The use of English English (lorry for truck, boot for trunk, and so on) gives an air of authenticity–real English wizards wouldn’t say “truck”…
So, don’t judge the English editions by their fugly covers. Go for the language!
Thought of you on my own Scotland adventure. We hung out with Kathy Galloway and decided the Scots are right about London. (”We would you want to go THERE?”)
Yeah, it is, but how cool to have the UK edition. You can get the US edition too.
Don’t forget to stock up on scotch tape while you’re there.