The Rooftop Blog- Ernie Payton: The Music Will Never Die May 1, 2017You didn’t have to spend much time with Debbie’s Dad, Lt. Col Ernest Payton (The Salvation Army), to know that his life revolved around music. Whether it was following, along with Joan, the riffs of a Big Band song on … Continue reading →
- Eulogy for my mother September 18, 2016Harriet Louise (Speer) Jewell (January 26, 1927-September 11, 2016) We celebrate through tears the crescendo of a long goodbye We gather here to celebrate our mother, grandmother, great grandmother, friend; and for the crescendo of a long goodbye. We’ve … Continue reading →
- Can 4 weeks change the trajectory of a life? October 12, 2015It’s great to discover an opportunity to make what may be a lasting difference in the life of a person who really needs to catch a break. We’ve found one, and we’d like to share it with you. Through an … Continue reading →
- Abraham Lincoln’s 2nd inaugural address: 150 years ago March 4, 2015March 4, 1865 Fellow-Countrymen: At this second appearing to take the oath of the Presidential office there is less occasion for an extended address than there was at the first. Then a statement somewhat in detail of a course to … Continue reading →
- Resurrection and Grief February 4, 2015My friend and colleague, Chuck, is with his family this week, gathered to bring ease–as best they can—as granddaughter Olivia slips from this life. A Trisomy18 baby, Olivia was born to live in this world briefly, a month-long, difficult prelude … Continue reading →
- Protecting Marriage: Ironic promotional language for a session at the forthcoming NRB Convention January 30, 2015The headline of a promotional email for a session at the National Religious Broadcasters convention reads: “Protecting Marriage: How to Get the Media Message Right for This Generation.” So how can we explain Protecting Marriage to this generation? (By which … Continue reading →
- On Veterans Day: Memorabilia from My Father, the WWII Veteran November 11, 2014My father was a World War II veteran. Veterans of these battlefields of the last century are now bowed men in their eighties and nineties speaking hesitantly about their colleagues and their service a lifetime ago in the killing fields … Continue reading →
- Brett Walls’ Magnificent Journey against Locked In Syndrome and United Health Care Paralysis October 28, 2014CHICAGO — Two blocks east of Chicago’s posh Magnificent Mile on Michigan Avenue, in the shadow of the spectacular John Hancock skyscraper, sits the world’s leading hospital and research enterprise in physical medicine and rehabilitation, the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago. … Continue reading →
- A Milestone Birthday for Debbie Jewell: Celebrating a Life Well Started September 3, 2014When you reach milestones that begin with crooked numbers, it is common to reflect on years gone by and their results. Today we’re celebrating the milestone birthday of a remarkable woman whose 50 years have been time well-spent. Debra Elizabeth … Continue reading →
- Autopsy Abuse Gets Personal August 13, 2014When race car driver Kevin Ward Jr. was run over and killed by NASCAR star Tony Stewart on a track in upstate NY Saturday, we saw self-destructive machismo at its worst. Many think Steward didn’t try very hard to stay clear … Continue reading →
- Ernie Payton: The Music Will Never Die May 1, 2017
Category Archives: Funny
2014 political cartoons to agitate half your friends
Posted in Cartoons, Environment, Funny, Immigration, Islam, Israel, Jim Jewell, Politics, Pro-life, Tea Party
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Funny gas price cartoons: if you don’t laugh. . .
Posted in Cartoons, Environment, Funny, Jim Jewell, Politics
Tagged cartoons, Funny, gas prices, politics
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By now you certainly know that weather is not climate. A very funny spoof.
Next time you year someone say, “It’s so cold today! How about that global warming, eh!”–think about this comedy segment:
Posted in Climate Change, Environment, Funny, Jim Jewell
Tagged climate change, Environment, Funny
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Social grace, in Washington
In a comical episode of military brass interacting with official Washington, four-star General Peter Chiarelli, the #2 general in the U.S. Army, showed decency and good humor when White House official Valerie Jarrett mistook him for a waiter (because of … Continue reading
Posted in Encouragement, Funny, Jim Jewell, Politics, Virtue
Tagged Character, civility, grace, military, politics, Washington manners
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10 very funny political cartoons in January 2011, including SOTU civility, Hu visit, Olbermann unemployed, disappearing Palin, and more
Posted in Cartoons, Funny, Human rights, Jim Jewell, Politics, Speeches
Tagged Funny, Keith Olbermann, Political cartoons, politics, Sarah Palin, State of the Union
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Words to avoid in the New Year: ‘I’m just sayin,’ there may be a ‘back story’ to this ‘a-ha moment’ that will go ‘viral’
I love the list of words that, presented as “Lake Superior State University’s 36th annual List of Words Banished from the Queen’s English for Mis-use, Over-use and General Uselessness.” VIRAL “Often used to describe the spreading of items on the … Continue reading
Posted in Communications, Culture, Funny
Tagged 2011, banished words, communications, unprecedented, viral, words
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Lighten up! Political cartoons on climate change
Our public relations firm had its first client in the evangelical environmental movement about five years ago, and we’ve been pleased to be involved with several efforts to protect God’s creation since then (including EEN, Serve God. Save the Planet, … Continue reading
Weekend reading on words in a culture of lies, the nature of movements, God’s creatures, and an atheist’s hymn
1. Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies by Marilyn Chandler McEntyre is praised by Alissa Wilkinson at Living Jubilee. She writes: I can say that Christians ought to learn to write well because it’s important that they communicate … Continue reading
Posted in Communications, Creation Care, Environment, Funny, Jim Jewell, Philosophy, Politics
Tagged books, creation care, Environment, Funny, Political philosophy
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Chief Seattle’s iconic environmental speech that was actually Southern Baptist film script
A must read post by Rusty Pritchard about a speech by Native American Chief Seattle, cherished and quoted by the environmental movement, that was actually created as a film script by a Southern Baptist. It’s amazing how something contrived or imagined … Continue reading
Posted in Communications, Culture, Environment, Funny, Jim Jewell, Speeches
Tagged creation care, Environment, Funny, public relations, simple living, speeches, sustainability
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More than words: very funny political cartoons of 2010–Obama hope, BP pelican, tea party, Halloween economics, Al Gore dating, Democrats at Little Big Horn
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Posted in Cartoons, Democrats, Funny, Jim Jewell, Politics, Republican, Tea Party
Tagged Glenn Beck, Pat Robertson, Political cartoons, Political philosophy, politics
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