Nora Ephron

Nora Ephron Remembered by Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks

By Liz Raftery
Wednesday June 27, 2012 09:55 AM EDT
People.com
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20607376,00.html

A true trailblazer, Nora Ephron leaves behind a legacy of always knowing the right (and wittiest) thing to say. She was "an expert in all the departments of living well," according to Meryl Streep – one of many paying tribute to the late author-journalist-screenwriter-director, who died Tuesday at 71.

"You could call on her for anything: doctors, restaurants, recipes, speeches, or just a few jokes, and we all did it, constantly," Streep – who was nominated for a Best Actress Oscar for her role as Julia Child in Ephron's Julie & Julia (2009) – wrote in an email to The New York Times. "Nora just looked at every situation and cocked her head and thought, ‘Hmmmm, how can I make this more fun?'"

Streep wasn't the only celebrity to remember Ephron fondly.

The filmmaker's Sleepless in Seattle (1993) and You've Got Mail (1998) star, Tom Hanks, said he and wife Rita Wilson were devastated by her death.

"At a dinner table and on a film set she lifted us all with wisdom and wit mixed with love for us and love for life," Hanks said in a statement. "Rita and I are so very sad to lose our friend who brought so much joy to all who were lucky enough to know her."

"Bebbington Quadrilateral"

Barack Obama: Evangelical-in-Chief?

How Christians might think about the President's faith.

Judd Birdsall

posted 6/21/2012 10:53AM

The most widely accepted definition of evangelicalism comes from British historian David Bebbington. According to Bebbington, an evangelical is a Christian marked by four distinct emphases:

- "conversionism, the belief that lives need to be changed;
- activism, the expression of the gospel in effort;
- biblicism, a particular regard for the Bible;
and what may be termed
- crucicentrism, a stress on the sacrifice of Christ on the cross."

http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2012/juneweb-only/barack-obama-evangelical-in-chief.html?utm_source=ctweekly-html&utm_medium=Newsletter&utm_term=6300605&utm_
content=128812793&utm_campaign=2012

The Habit of Liking You

"Hang onto your old friends because there may come a day when there's no good reason for people to like you except out of habit."
~ Garrison Keillor

As Long As They Are Fighting

quotes from a sermon commenting on Mark 3:20-30

Rev. Brian Vinson, Millersport United Methodist Church,
Sunday, March 20, 2011
I am Convinced that Unity Leads to Victory
Mark 3:20-30
http://brian-sermons.blogspot.com/2011/03/i-am-convinced-that-unity-leads-to.html

quote from Ryan Bash:
“To be honest, I’m not sure Satan really cares about what churches fight about, as long as they are fighting. I’m not sure he has much interest in who’s right and who’s wrong, as long as we’re refusing to treat one another with love and grace in the midst of the disagreement.”

There are some of you who don’t hear from God and you, implicitly if not explicitly, blame God for it. If that’s not what you’re doing, what are you doing? What’s your excuse?
Are you studying the Bible? God speaks through his word. Are you asking the Holy Spirit to speak to you through the Word when you read it? Are you actively seeking others to discuss scripture with? Are you praying with other Christians?
If not, what’s your excuse? Really. What’s your excuse?

Posted by Brian Vinson at 7:42 AM