Friday Mishmash

The Blog Blast for Peace is almost here!

Have you created your Peace Globe?

Sometimes Saintly Nick's 2009 Peace Globe

Alex's 2009 Peace Globe

Are you aware of the proposed International Megan's Law?

This is an issue that has concerned me for many years:


At the moment there is before Congress there is a bill that could make a real difference in the fight against the buying and selling and trafficking of innocent children.

This bill, International Megan's Law, would mandate reporting requirements for convicted sex traffickers trying to engage in international travel, and prevent entry into the U.S. by any foreign sex offender against a minor. There are convicted sex traffickers trying to engage in international travel, and preventing entry into the U.S. by any foreign sex offender against a minor. This bill could make a real difference in the fight against the buying and selling and trafficking of innocent children. In the U.S. and around the world, thousands of pimps, traffickers, and child molesters are treating our kids like objects to be used and discarded. This bill will send a loud and unambiguous message to those who believe they can buy, sell, and abuse our children with impunity: never again.

For more information and to express your support of International Megan's Law, click here: Help Stop Child Sex Traffiking



I may never get to wear this shirt-jacket again!


Alex has been using it as a bed ever since it's been hanging on that chair.




How 'bout dem Yanks!

The World Series is tied!

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Amazing Grace Sunday

Today is Amazing Grace Sunday.

Two hundred years ago, British politician William Wilberforce and his band of loyal friends took on the most powerful forces of their day to end the slave trade. His mentor was John Newton, the slave-trader-turned-song-writer, who wrote the world’s most popular hymn, Amazing Grace.

This year is the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade. But the work of justice and mercy continues. 27 million men, women, and children are still enslaved around the globe.

How sweet the sound of freedom.

I don't believe it is by chance that the release of the film Amazing Grace coincides with this remembrance. Malnurtured Snay has an excellent trailer of the film on this site. I invite you to view it.

Below is a map of the locations of congregations in the United States who participated in Amazing Grace Sunday.


May I also add that Amazing Grace was known as "an early American Melody" and became a favorite of the Cherokee (Native American) Nation? It was sung by the Cherokee on the Trail of Tears and can be considered the Cherokee National anthem.

The Trail of Tears