La Lecturess

La Lecturess
(But our beginnings never know our ends!)
Contributors La Lecturess Flavia Email: lecturess[AT]gmail[DOT]com Recent Posts Belated but appropriate Friday poetry blogging Après le déluge. . . we shop! Objects in the mirror may be cooler than they appear Disconnected, end-of-semester wrap-up Classroom space, take two Classroom space (Sort of) Friday poetry blogging ABC meme It's never going to end. But it will end. Learning from my students Things I Read and/or People I Like The New York Times Arts & Letters Daily The Chronicle of Higher Education Commonweal Crooked Timber Inside Higher Ed The Revealer Andrew Sullivan Talking Points Memo Wonkette ABD Anonymous ABD Mom Academic Coach Acephalous Advice at Your Own Risk Anbruch Ancrene Wiseass Another Damned Medievalist Badgerings Bardiac Between an Oxymoron and a Redundancy Blogging the Renaissance Bitch. Ph.D. Cheeky Prof. Clashing Hats Confessions of a Community College Dean Dr. Virago (Quod She) Early Modern Notes Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog G-Fav's Meanderings H.K. in Seoul A Ianqui in Greenwich Village In Favor of Thinking Ink and Incapability It's Probably Me Kermit's Log Kinesthesis Breakthrough Manolo's Shoe Blog Margo, Darling Medieval Woman Michael Berube My So-Called (ABD) Life Negative Capability New Kid on the Hallway On Any Given Day One Bright Star Reignited Oronte Churm Pretty Hard, Dammit Phantom Scribbler Pilgrim/Heretic Playing School, Irreverently Polyopia Professorial Confessions Professor Me Raining Cats & Dogma Reassigned Time Scrivenings Sfragett's City Slaves of Academe Thanks for not Being a Zombie Terminal Degree The Theater Absurd Timna Tired of Ted Tomato Nation Verbosity Defined What Now? Will's Coffee House Writing as Jo(e) Xoom Late Spring To-Do List ~~Read scholarly book #1~~ Read scholarly book #2 ~~Catch up on professional journals~~ ~~Administer evaluations~~ ~~Grade seminar research papers~~ ~~Write two final exams~~ ~~Grade final exams~~ ~~Compute final grades~~ ~~Order books for fall~~ Find apartment in New City ~~Attend INRU Commencement!~~	Monday, May 15, 2006 Interpretative Dance Theocrats Check out this "crib sheet for Christianity" (more additions in the comments section, so scroll down). Here's a taste: The Protestant Reformation This is the name historians give to a major labor dispute that erupted in Germany in 1517 when a group of monks hammered a proposed union contract to the door of the pope's house, requesting a 95 percent pay raise. The pope refused to negotiate with the monks union until it agreed to pay to have the door fixed, and the result was the world's longest-running strike. For nearly 500 years, a huge portion of Christians have been on strike from being Catholic. . . . Currently, the matter is in arbitration. Calvinism This theory was worked out by the French theologian and fashion designer John Calvin Klein, who argued that some people are predestined to be glamorous while others are doomed to be plain. America was founded by Calvinists, who sought to establish a country where they could pursue their belief that buckled hats were fashionable. Unfortunately for the author, it's not just the non-religious who know fuck-all about Christianity--it's Christians themselves. Many of them my students. ------------------- (Link wantonly stolen from my brother's blog. Thanks, bro!) link \| posted by La Lecturess at 3:18 PM \| 3 Comments: Anonymous commented at 4:23 PM~ Hilarious! I especially like Baptism and the Pope. Anonymous commented at 6:29 PM~ I knew you'd like it! -scr Weezy commented at 2:13 PM~ Too funny! I might use this in the fall for my short answers... Want to Post a Comment? back to main page
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