Flannery O’Connor once claimed: “You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you odd.” (Via Cribbs on Twitter)
Category: odd
NCCYM, odd, video
Popple Gets Youth Ministers In Shape
When Oddwalk travels to various conferences throughout the year, we get a chance to see how each different ministry and vendor shapes their booth space. Few are more creative than Popple. Enjoy!
AI, catholicism, liturgy, odd
Not Exactly a Renewal of Vows
As part of studies at Aquinas Institute, those preparing for the priesthood have practice sessions for sacramental presiding, including weddings. Today, Orin and Erin helped a couple of their friends by role-playing brides and grooms. In both instances, Erin was a good Catholic girl, but Orin was once an unbaptized-but-not-antagonistic-toward-Catholicism groom, and the other time…
music, odd, website
Who doesn’t want to see a lot of pictures of Swedish dance bands from the 1970’s?
holiday, odd
Gol Dern Kids! Dagnabbit!
Shannon today snapped this pic of what happens when one lets Halloween linger just a little too long. He sent it to Orin with the following caption: “Get off my lawn!“ Perhaps that’s a reference to this pic that’s been meandering around the internet lately?
odd
Monk Fight
As aptly described by Orin’s friend Christian C: Monk fight! MONK FIGHT! Check out the video footage, too: an Armenian monk in full ceremonial garb sucker-punches a Greek Orthodox monk, and later makes a flying leap into the security team trying to break up the fight. There’s nothing quite like violence to emphasize Christ’s message…
odd, travel, YNIA
A Monumental Photo
This summer, when Orin was in Washington DC with YNIA, one of the other staffers, Ralph Stewart, had Orin pose for this photo: And again, don’t forget to keep playing our Haiku Challenge V, just below!
announcements, odd
Mockolate?
MSNBC – Oh, milk chocolate. Wherefore art thou? Apparently not in some Hershey’s products that contained milk chocolate for years, and that has passionate chocolate aficionados fighting mad. Products such as Whatchamacallit, Milk Duds, Mr. Goodbar and Krackel no longer have milk chocolate coatings, and Hershey’s Kissables are now labeled “chocolate candy” instead of “milk…