Jesus as Lord?

A. Unabashed Pacifist:

When the peace train rolls into the station, I’ll be packed and ready to board.

B. Unabashed Christian:

Holy One,

It all traces back to you. Nothing goes back beyond you. That makes creation stories true. As for the facts, they matter primarily to scientists and the literal minded. I have repented of that mindset.

Jesus, too, traces back to you. Not physically or genealogically (did Matthew or Luke expect to be taken literally? I doubt it.) Have too many people missed the meaning because they hang up on the facts? He comes from you as surely as anything we can know, it’s absolutely true.
Amen

C. Un-quoting Jesus:

“Bring me my pipe and slippers, James.”

[I like it enough that I’d put it in the Gospel According to Ron, but He never said it.]

D. Blog: “Malarkey” [Why would this word come to mind for today???]

[Kudos to Michael Quinion and his wonderful website, World Wide Words]

Meaningless talk; humbug; nonsense; foolishness.

It’s still known in the US and to a lesser extent in the UK and elsewhere, but where this odd-looking word comes from is decidedly uncertain. What we do know is that it began to appear in the US in the early 1920s in various spellings, such as malaky, malachy, and mullarkey. Its first known user was the cartoonist T A Dorgan, in 1922, but it only began to appear widely at the end of the decade. By 1930, Variety could pun on it: “The song is ended but the Malarkey lingers on.”

Various theories have been advanced. Eric Partridge pointed to the modern Greek word malakia but he formed a group of one. His later editor, Paul Beale, noted the London expression Madame Misharty, the personification of sales talk, exaggerated claims, and wild predictions, a name that was supposedly that of a fortune teller. But this is stretching a possible linguistic link to breaking point and, in any case, we know it started life in North America. Others point to the family name Malarkey, though who the eponymous member of the tribe might have been whose Irish-derived gift of the gab could have given rise to the name remains unknown. Jonathon Green likewise suggests an Irish origin in mullachan, a strongly-built boy or ruffian, though this, too, seems a stretch of meaning.
We’ll just have to settle for the unsatisfactory “origin unknown”.