September 28, 2008

• Today's Sermon:

  Buffalo Soldier

  Part I:

  Play Time

  Retired pastor William W. McDermet III on the editorial page of Saturday's Buffalo News (Warren E. Buffett, chairman):

  "In the 1940s, there was no Internet or television, so after school I
  amused myself with a snack of graham crackers and milk, maybe a comic
  book or a Tinkertoy project. Yet what was really exciting was a
  frequent ring of the doorbell, which mother answered, followed by the
  request: 'Can Billy come out and play?'"

  Part II:

  Excerpt from Fritz Leiber's
  "Damnation
  Morning," 1959:

  "Time traveling, which is not quite the good clean boyish fun
  it's cracked up to be, started for me when this woman with the sigil on
  her forehead looked in on me from the open doorway of the hotel bedroom
  where I'd hidden myself and the bottles and asked me,

  
  
  
  Our Lady of
  Judgment Day

   'Look, Buster,
   do
  you want to live?'"

  Part III:

  Saint Anna

  
  Washington Post,
  Sunday, Sept. 28, 2008 --
  Sheri Jennings, ROME --

  "It's early autumn in 1944,
  and the Nazis are advancing
  on the Italian front...."

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