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Before I was born, my Mum and Dad went on a grand, four-year tour of the US and Canada (often with cattle in a trailer behind their truck because my dear late Dad was, in fact Farmer Brown). And man, they really did it, criss-crossing the country and exploring its furthest fields and plains and reaches before heading back to Australia and making me. Goodbye freedom, Ma and Pa! My apologies.

You have a lot of choices when it comes to learning guitar online. Maybe you’ve already found a charismatic YouTuber who entertains you with their knowledge of music. Even with hundreds of uploads to their name, these free videos can only scratch the surface. All year long I’ve been sharing free online guitar lessons. Your continuous feedback and questions have kept me busy checking out other “premium guitar sites.” You asked - sometimes more than once - and I’ve tried to answer.

Click here for the WTC recipe index, and scroll to the very bottom of this post for a printer-friendly version of today’s recipe! Before all the parents of small children delete this email and banish it as a non-family-friendly meal: Hear me out! There’s a time and a place for a fully assembled, tossed salad. And there’s a time and a place for a salad platter, where eaters pick and choose and assemble their own meal.

Is it okay to hate a movie you’ve never seen? I say yes: if the movie is Into the Wild. I’ve long held a grudge against this 2007 flick, so I was pleased to see it make the news recently for the right reason: the derelict bus in the photo above, made famous by the film, has been removed from its remote location by Alaskan authorities. Fans of Into The Wild might mourn the loss, but the rest of us can rejoice, because what you see in that picture is the world becoming less stupid.

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CHRIST IS RISEN! Good morning from Budapest, where I once again have proper milk in my coffee, Lent being over and the joy of Pascha covering the land! The image above is from the beginning of the Paschal service in my church. The lighting was much darker than the photo indicates. It is supposed to symbolize the darkness of the tomb that held the body o… ncG1vNJzZmiqn5mxs7HHnqlnq6WXwLWtwqRlnKedZL1wr8eroKysXZ7Abr7IrJynZZanvK5506GcZpyVlrE%3D

[This is a transcript of the Christmas Eve 2023 Sermon given in Bethlehem, Palestine (Occupied Territories), by Reverend Munther Isaac, the Senior Pastor at the Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church in Bethlehem. This Church was commissioned and built by Augusta Victoria, the wife of William II, the German Emperor and King of Prussia, in 1893. This Sermon is also a message, born of great anguish and pain, to the collective West and to the Churches in the West; it is a message, I believe, that captures in essence the moral vacuity of Christians in the West who have stood silently watching the mass murder and genocide of Gazans carried live into their homes on televisions and the internet.

I grew up in a Christian family – one of those families that was at Church every time the doors were open. On Sunday mornings we attended Sunday school followed by a service featuring praise songs and a ~30-minute sermon; Sunday evenings we participated in youth group or the evening service; Wednesday evenings we had kids club – or choir practice if you had aged out of the latter. One day every year, we would add a Friday to the mix: Good Friday.

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