Miscellany

Yup. Smells like Jesus. (God help me.)
Jesus Candle:Bob and Karen Tosterud have created and sold over 10,000 candles they claim carry the fragrance of Jesus, and they’re calling it a ministry. The Tosteruds base the candle scent on Psalm 45:8 – “Your robes are all fragrant with myrrh and aloes and cassia.” According to Bob Tosterud, this is a great way to experience Christ: “You can’t see him and you can’t touch him. This is a situation where you may be able to sense him by smelling. And it provides a really new dimension to one’s experience with Jesus.” From World.

Can Married Folks Be Saved?

Some people living carelessly in the world put a question to me: “How can we who are married and living amid public cares aspire to the monastic life?” I answered: “Do whatever you may. Speak evil of no one. Tell no lie. Despise no one and carry no hate. Do not separate yourself from the church assemblies. Show compassion to the needy. Do not be a cause of scandal to anyone. Stay away from the bed of another, and be satisfied with what your own wives can provide you. If you do all this, you will not be far from the kingdom of heaven. — St. John Climacus – The Ladder of Divine Ascent (Thanks to Fr Josiah Trenham.)

Sex for six year olds. (God help me X2.)
Dawn, as always, keeps us up to date on the ever-sickening Planned Parenthood. Also, thongs for progressive teens. (Complete with progressive protection to prevent the big “pr”.)

No sex story’s complete w/o those Crazy Episcopalians …
I mean, that IS the issue, no?

It is also easy to think of this merely as a story pitting armies of angry Third World traditionalists against a pack of trust fund-wielding Episcopalians who want to evolve into Unitarians with nice Christmas hymns and pretty vestments. tmatt on pecusa.