Category: religion

‘Vegan Police’ Shut Down California Restaurant

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An animal rights demonstrator holds a placard during the demonstration. Thousands gathered

Any way we can keep this in California?

“You are guilty of crimes against compassion!” (https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2025/01/05/california-restaurant-shuts-down-after-infuriating-vegan-police-with-meat-menu/)

The guilty party is a California restaurant chain (two stores) which has been forced to shut down…

Because they added some meat dishes–bison burgers, cheese–to their menu, trying to attract more customers. That was their crime.

Check out the photo. Do these people look all right to you? Maybe their brains need some protein.

Do you think they would, if they could, forbid us to eat meat or sea food  and send us to rather unpleasant camps if we didn’t comply?

I think they would.

By Request, ‘Traveling Through’

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Requested by Erlene, and sung by Carroll Roberson–Traveling Through.

We are having a very difficult day; so please keep those prayers coming.

 

‘Behold the Mountain of the Lord’

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This ancient Scottish hymn–sung here by Godfrey Birtill–never fails to move me. If we could only see the mountain!

Behold the Mountain of the Lord: joy and gravitas at the same time.

Be Request, ‘He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands’

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Wow! Would you believe we used to sing this in grade school? And no one complained!

Sung by the choir of the Tennessee Gospel Society: He’s Got the Whole World In His Hands.

And way, way, way better Him than us.

By Request, ‘Christmas is Always’

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Yes, it’s still Christmas around here, folks.

Requested by Erlene, sung by Donna Roberson: Christmas is Always. 

I wish I could borrow some of that scenery.

‘I Need Thee Every Hour’

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This hymn has never meant more to me than it does now: I Need Thee Every Hour, sung here by Fernando Ortega. (My mother and my grandma used to sing it, too.)

Yes, I need Jesus! We all need you, Lord. Especially when things go very wrong. I didn’t know what was going to happen to me in that hospital yesterday. Somehow I feel I was lucky to get out in one piece last night.

O Christ my shield and helmet! We are your people, the sheep of your hand… and we need our shepherd.

P.S.–Yes, I still want to post Christmas hymns this weekend. Requests, anyone?

‘Silent Night’

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Holy cow! Don’t tell me I never posted Silent Night! But it’s still Christmas here, so let’s post Silent Night–sung by the choir at Winchester Cathedral.

Yes, we’re still taking Christmas hymn requests.

By Request, ‘Masters in This Hall’

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Here’s another one I was in danger of forgetting, a real treasure of a hymn for Christmas-time: Masters in This Hall, performed by the Robert Shaw Chorale.

Thank you, Phoebe, for requesting it. I’d have hated to leave it out of our Christmas celebration.

‘God Bless Us Every One’

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This is theme music for A Christmas Carol, 1984, starring George C. Scott and directed by Clive Donner. I say it’s a very good thing with which to close out the year!

If it’s about nothing else, A Christmas Carol is about repentance. That ought to be an important enough theme for any and all of us.

‘All Glory Be to Christ’

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(Sorry I’m so late. More on that a little later.)

I love this hymn by King’s Kaleidoscope, perfect for New Year’s Eve: All Glory Be to Christ, sung to the tune of Auld Lang Syne. Play it again tonight–you’ll know when.