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Tom
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| Posted 3/22/2010 5:30 PM (GMT -6) |   | We had a big missions convention this past weekend at our church. Sunday night we turned the whole church into different neighborhoods and markets representing different countries. We had homeless America, Latin America, the Far East, India, and on and on. And we got people from these area to work the booths, play indigenous instruments, and cook food. It was cool. India was awesome. Total Bollywood!
Aaaanyhooo. My wife asked one of the Indian ladies working in the India section if she'd take a corner an 'act' out palm reading. You know. Just to make it all FEEL like India. I said I didn't think Indians read palms, but whatever. It FELT 'Eastern'. The lady said, "Sure. Why not." So she said for like two hours just reading peoples' palms throughout the evening. Basically she just made stuff up. You know, if a teenager came and sat down she'd say the obvious: "Hmmm. You're a student." And they'd answer with surprise, "Yes!" She'd say, "If you studied harder you could do much better." Stuff ANYBODY could say. You know.
Guys, she was talking to me afterward. People were like totally INTO it. They thought she was REALLY reading palms, and they wouldn't let her go. They REALLY wanted help. She said, "People will believe anything! They're so gullible."
Dude. This was in an EVANGELICAL church, yo. And they were looking for guidance.
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The second funny thing...
So I get an email from Andrew Louth this morning. Professor Louth is MR. Eastern Orthodoxy (University of Durham). He's like THE king of Patristics in the world today. No lie. Paul Gavrilyuk was telling me how absolutely brilliant Louth is. He says it's common knowledge that he's the smartest man in England (or something like that). Long beard. The whole deal. Talking to him is like stepping back into the 5th century.
Aaaanyhooo...He was kind enough to help me with a comment of Thunberg's re: Maximus some months back. So I sent him my PhD proposal a few days ago (re: Open Theism and Eastern Orthodoxy in conversation). Louth wrote back, "Hey, thanks. But I've never heard of Open Theism!"
You gotta love it. Wow.
Tom
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