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[tree_and_leaf]

• 11:03 How curious that so many of the early usages of 'supercede' in the OED are Scots.... #
• 11:04 @ParrotKnight I think it's normally the only one that still gets performed, but they're doing the others, too. Also reading of 4 Quartets. #
• 11:58 Drat, I've just realised I'll have to go home and dress for dinner, since I forgot the bag with my skirt. Knew wearing jeans was a mistake! #
• 12:35 Continue to worry about what I'm going to say about Luke 21 next week. Have a feeling it may end up being the Gospel According to L. Cohen. #
• 12:35 (Trendy vicar syndrome already? Oh dear....) #
• 16:06 Surprisingly hard to work out where to get a citable text of the Advent Prose (as opposed to wikipedia or choral wiki, although the text ... #
• 16:07 ... there is clearly right. Hm. NEH only has it in English, and probably doesn't count as proper academic source... #
• 16:49 Just seen a bubblewrapped portrait bing carefully carried through the library. #

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[em-h.livejournal.com]

Heh, I quoted L.Cohen in a sermon last year (different bit though, I suspect).

Is that trendy? He's pretty old by now. He's practically stuffy old classical music.

I tried to have a discussion with my partner last week about the respective standings of Cohen and Dylan as theologians (unsurprising summary: Cohen better), but it was one of those conversations where I just rambled on and got vague polite noises in return.

[tree_and_leaf]

Yes, but Trendy Vicars are never actually up to date!

Cohen is a great mystic writer. I have to admit that I've never warmed to Dylan on any level, though I quite like 'The Times They Are a-Changing', if someone else sings it! I actually think that Paul Simon is a better songwriter than Dylan, though Cohen is a better poet than either of them, by a country mile.

(Which bit did you quote?)

[em-h.livejournal.com]

Not any of the ones you might expect. I was preaching on the Bread of Life passage in John, and part of my set-up was talking about how all politics is, in some sense, about how food is distributed, and the best concise summary of that I could find was the line in 'Democracy' about "the homicidal bitchin'/that goes down in every kitchen/to determine who will serve and who will eat".

Some of my unchurchy friends who came were particularly amazed that I was allowed to say "bitchin'" ...

[rivrea.livejournal.com]

Have a feeling it may end up being the Gospel According to L. Cohen.

Now that's a religion I could get behind! ;)