This year, Mid Year Gathering will be held at the Caswell Conference Center in Fort Caswell NC.  If you’re interested in going contact the Yearly Meeting Office as soon as possible, as space is first come first serve.

So, I’m still thinking about the film Jesus Camp.  In particular, I can’t shake one of the pieces of “advice” good ol’ Pastor Becky gave her kids.  She was preaching about sin, and made her way around to the topic of Harry Potter.  Let me establish here that I’m a big Potter fan, and I doubt I’m the only Jesus follower who is.  Any way, Pastor “B” informed her kids that Harry Potter is evil.  Her advice?  “You don’t make heroes out of warlocks.”  But what really shocked me was what she next—she asked the kids if they knew that had this been Old Testament times, Harry Potter would be put to death.  Hum.  Well, let’s establish two things—Harry Potter is not a real person!  He’s a book character, so maybe the Potter books would have been burned, but it would be quite difficult to actually execute Harry himself.  My second point is one Pastor “B” already made, even though she didn’t actually say it: we are not living under the old law because Christ ushered in a new law. As sad as she may be about that truth, the fact is, we don’t have to worry about what would have happened—it no longer matters.  So why even introduce an argument based upon a law that no longer exists? That’s like arguing that we don’t make heroes out of black Americans like Barach Obama.  I can just hear someone asking, “Did you know that if these were still the antebellum years, blacks would be enslaved?”  Please. That’s ridiculous.  Don’t threaten people about punishments that are antiquated.  In many ways, it says that Pastor “B” cannot come up with a valid reason, that applies to this current time, about why one should not read the Potter books.By the way, Obama is one of my political heroes—his color makes little difference to me (except that if he wins, we’ll finally get to see someone who isn’t white sitting in the oval office!). 

Join Hillel for Worship, location to be announced.

I think the title says it all..

Skip breakfast or lunch, and Join Hillel for volunteering at Habitat (or possibly somehwere else).  After that we will dine at a locally owned restaurant.