#OTD in 1962, John F. Kennedy hosted foreign dignitaries aboard USS Enterprise to watch the Navy demonstrate the latest surface-to-air and air-to-air missiles against a drone. After the missiles failed to score a single hit, a dignitary asked if his country could buy the drone.

'The last lifeboat launched from the Titanic makes its way through the water.' Photographed on April 15, 1912.

Modernist's hymn:

Up from the grave, he arose! (I suppose)
With a potential victory o'er his foes (I suppose)
He arose a spirit from the dark domain
And he lives forever with his saints to feign:
He arose! (I suppose)
He arose! (I suppose)
Hallelujah! we suppose

Millennials will never understand

Put the screens down and go tweet out in nature.

It’s never your fault in

Chris Hutchinson 🇺🇦 🕊️ “Ho! Every one who thirsts, come to the waters;
And you who have no money come, buy and eat.
Come, buy wine and milk
Without money and without cost.'
— Isaiah 55:1

Apparently, no bartering in heaven. Those who voted yes will just have to take things for free, I'm sorry.

Probably been done before but if denominations were emojis:

Anglicans -🧐
Baptists -🥵
Catholics -😇
Lutherans -😑
Methodists -🤠
Pentecostals -🤗
Pentecostals w/🐍 -🤕
Presbyterians -🥶
Prosperity -🤑
Reformed -🤔
Quakers -🤐
Shakers -🫨
UUs -😶‍🌫️

(all in good fun)

'Visit the USSR by car', tourism poster, 1960s

Most people know Dutch artist Piet Mondrian for his block colours and geometric abstraction (far R), but here also are two of his earlier, naturalistic works created before 1910 ~ Houses on the Gein ■ Still life with fruit

If time is running short you can sometimes skip verses in the final hymn, unless it is And Can it Be.

I don't make the rules.

Today:

✅youth @ presbytery retreat
✅welcomed new member
✅baptized a student (admin. by RUF minister)
✅lots of great 🙏🏼 led by an elder
✅preached Gospel
✅sang And Can it Be
✅talked to a visitor abt pastoral mistakes I've made
✅hosted an Anglican church for a mtg due to🔥

18) Barth: the boy with spiky hair from The Simpsons.

9) Systematic theology: the belief that the story, purposes and mind of God can be divided into logically related, component parts and then turned into expensive academic books.

The English Art Nouveau (or Modern Style) facade of the Everard's Printing Works from 1901 in Bristol designed by architect and ceramicist William James Neatby (1860-1910).

Photo: James Davies for Historic England Archive

NOT Bosch Power Tools
The Hill, St Louis