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Bruce Alderman on December 18, 2012

I’ve always been a “glass half empty” kind of guy. When life hands me lemonade, I’m disappointed at not having the lemons. My wife sometimes calls me Squidward.

And for our Advent blog, I’m stuck with joy. That’s just great.

Looking at this week’s Gospel reading, it appears that John the Baptist might also have been a “glass half empty” guy.

Wrath and unquenchable fire…this is the good news? That’s my kind of guy.

For Zephaniah, the glass was more than half empty. His book of prophecy begins with a bleak and hopeless outlook: “’I will utterly sweep away everything from the face of the earth,’ says the Lord.” And it only gets more bleak as Zephaniah fills in the details. …

 
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13:26
There are some straaaaange people out there.
 
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14:49
fun fact, > 10% of questions tagged are closed
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Q: What should we do with Jesus?

wax eagleA recent focus for those of us who want to see this site continue to grow has been on cleaning up our tags. We want to make sure that each tag means something on the questions it's applied to. Recently we had the god tag destroyed. It was not a useful tag, and it has been replaced with more spe...

 
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> Dykes isn’t just some random Southern Baptist preacher. Jeff Sharlet, author of C Street: The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy, sends this update:
Oh, Jesus: Pastor David Dykes, full supporter of Uganda #killthegays, opened Congress in prayer in '08. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gV1PZnCLOII @jfburroway
@TRiG blessed with an ironic name
 
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only a few more hours til Hats!!!!
@waxeagle Yay! I've been wondering when they would appear...
21:06
just solved a problem that's been puzzling my boss for months.
00:00 UTC :)
 
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@waxeagle Excellent! What was the problem?

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