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ScumDaddy

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About Me

I've been married to my beautiful bride for 29 years now. We have four kids I like a lot. I pastor a church called Scum of the Earth.

My Interests

Theology, Guitar, Disc Golf, Long walks on the beach, blah blah blah ...

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I'd like to meet:

Jesus (yeah, pastors tend to say things like this). Abrahan Lincoln, Will Rogers, Mr. Rogers, Captain Kangaroo, Captain Kirk, Captain Crunch. Bill Murray, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, that Burning Bush from the Bible, the Human Torch (comic book guy, not the movie guy). Bono, Dietrich Bonhoffer, Clive Staples Lewis, Ma & Pa Staples, the guy who invented the stapler. The guy who built this:

Music:

Rimsky-Korsakov, Glenn Miller, Bing Crosby, Over The Rhine, Pierce Pettis, Stonehill, Keaggy, Heard, Coltrane, Pattitucci, Aaron Copeland, Van Morrison, James Taylor, Peter Paul and Mary, Five Iron Frenzy (of course), Yellow Second, Black Black Ocean, Roper, Season at Sea, Cyprus Wood ...

Movies:

Groundhog Day, The Philadelphia Story, The Empire Strtikes Back, Lost in Translation, The Upside of Anger, Bambi Meets Godzilla

Television:

A few: Scrubs, Conan, Frasier, Friends, Cheers, Star Trek, The Dick Van Dyke Show. Oh, and Sesame Street ... and that one infomercial.

Books:

The Chronicles of Narnia (CS Lewis), The Great Divorce (CS Lewis), Perelandra (CS Lewis), Phantases (George MacDonald), The Spirit of the Disciplines (Dallas Willard), The Four Loves (CS Lewis), The Space Trilogy (CS Lewis), Where the Sidewalk Ends (Shel Silverstein), Practicing the Presence (Brother Lawrence)

Heroes:

(here we go again...) Jesus. My dad. Gary Burk, Jack Boyd. That guy (or gal) nobody's ever heard of but who did amazing things whom we will all find out about in heaven.

My Blog

The Real C.S. Lewis

The following is from a recent interview with Douglas Gresham, CS Lewis' stepson:Question: What is the least understood or least recognized aspect of Jack's character?Gresham: His humor. Everybody sor...
Posted by ScumDaddy on Sun, 24 Feb 2008 01:21:00 PST

Check out this video: Pastor Gas (The Original)

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Posted by ScumDaddy on Thu, 17 May 2007 10:06:00 PST

Various Media Articles about Scum

Blah, blah, blah .... What we have to realize about the hype is three-fold:1. "Media outlets" are voracious industries that must consume and produce news every day in order to survive. The fact that a...
Posted by ScumDaddy on Tue, 03 Apr 2007 11:01:00 PST

Butt Prints in the Sand

(author unknown)One night, I had a wondrous dream;One set of footprints there was seen.The footprints of my precious Lord,But mine were not along the shore.But then some stranger prints appeared,And I...
Posted by ScumDaddy on Sun, 11 Mar 2007 11:15:00 PST

Bono Speech at NAACP  2 March '07

Click on this link:Bono Speech at NAACPHere's the address:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENp7c6TtBHk&eurl=http %3A%2F%2Fprofile%2Emyspace%2Ecom%2Findex%2Ecfm%3Ffuseaction% 3Duser%2Eviewprofile%26friendi...
Posted by ScumDaddy on Sun, 04 Mar 2007 10:24:00 PST

Scum Update for Jan./Feb. 2007

February 2nd marked the seventh birthday for Scum of the Earth  seven years since that small group of about a dozen young adults gathered in our living room to dream about creating a church for the "...
Posted by ScumDaddy on Sat, 24 Feb 2007 03:45:00 PST

Quotes about giving and receiving sermons

"Sermons come from the soul. Thus, to deliver a sermon is to reveal our innermost parts in front of the entire congregation. By the time preachers get to the pulpit, the text has already beaten us u...
Posted by ScumDaddy on Sun, 18 Feb 2007 02:28:00 PST

V.D.

I think I hate Valentine's Day. Perhaps it's the rebel in me, not wanting to do what I am told to do. I think it is ridiculous to celebrate romance on a given day, since it is such a capricious love t...
Posted by ScumDaddy on Wed, 14 Feb 2007 12:50:00 PST

In Loving Memory of Gothic Nathan

A Memorial Service sponsored by Scum of the Earth Church and Open Door Fellowship will be held at Church in the City, 1530 Josephine in Denver, Colorado on Monday, January 29th, 2007 at 1:00 PMIt is w...
Posted by ScumDaddy on Sun, 21 Jan 2007 08:57:00 PST

My Perplexing Relationship with Christmas

There's nothing like sitting by a fireplace on a cold wintry night, sipping hot chocolate, and listening to Christmas music while gazing at a brightly-lit Christmas tree. I love Christmastime, but the...
Posted by ScumDaddy on Sun, 17 Dec 2006 12:33:00 PST