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2023-09-21T20:56:44-04:00

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The B+B Festival Part One

Last updated on: September 21, 2023 at 8:56 pm By Ben Witherington

Of the larger music festivals in America, the Bourbon and Beyond Festival has over the last several years emerged as the very best. Last year 140,000 came to this festival, and I doubt it was less this year, which features not only classic rock, but all sorts of recent rock artists, country artists old and new, bluegrass artists, and crossover artists like Billy Strings, Blues artists like Buddy Guy, some Hip Hop artists, some r+b artists, some wild cards (this... Read more

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2023-09-21T15:53:32-04:00

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At the Zoo– Part Two

Last updated on: September 21, 2023 at 3:53 pm By Ben Witherington

Of course you expect when you go to the zoo, you expect to see lions and tigers and bears, oh my! But maybe not this bear….. This polar bear was beautiful but suffering in the heat. He should have been in a cooler enclosed area hopefully with snow, and speaking of snow, a snow leopard— The tiger and the lioness seemed to be doing fine in the Louisville heat and humidity. I must confess to loving the meerkats…. I wish... Read more

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The missing lynx

2023-09-21T15:28:00-04:00

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At the Zoo– Part One

Last updated on: September 21, 2023 at 3:28 pm By Ben Witherington

The Louisville Zoo, located just off Watterson Expressway, has got a lot of animals and birds, well arranged by regions and types, and the nice thing is they are not so far away that you can’t get close to them and get good shots. There are places where non-glare glass is not used, unfortunately which makes picture taking more difficult. All and all, I would give this zoo good ratings. So let see what there is to see, starting perhaps... Read more

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The zoo is for the birds

2023-09-20T22:08:59-04:00

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The Josephine Sculpture Park

Last updated on: September 20, 2023 at 10:08 pm By Ben Witherington

Out in the middle of nowhere in Franklin County Kentucky is a Sculpture Park, in a bunch of open fields. Honestly this whole scenario is almost as twilight zonish as some of the sculptures themselves. Now I’ve been to sculpture parks that make sense before— like the wonderful one housing the famous sculptures of Rodin in Paris, but this one is on out there, in every sense of the word. First, the sign, off of old Lawrenceburg Road, which is... Read more

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2023-09-18T20:46:35-04:00

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A Haunting in Venice

Last updated on: September 18, 2023 at 8:46 pm By Ben Witherington

Agatha Christie novels are a particular kind of murder mystery, and thanks to Kenneth Branagh several of the most famous ones (E.G. MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS, OR DEATH ON THE NILE) have been made into lavish Hollywood spectacles. A Haunting in Venice is no different, except the original novel was called a Halloween Party, and the story line varies some from the novel itself. Christie’s novels are overwhelmingly ‘who dunnits’, not how was it done etc. And Poirot... Read more

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It's my Party and I'll die if I want to

2023-09-17T08:38:14-04:00

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Bears Pick Best Donuts in the World

Last updated on: September 17, 2023 at 8:38 am By Ben Witherington

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The unbearable raid on Krispy Kreme

2023-09-17T09:22:51-04:00

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Gino at His Best

Last updated on: September 17, 2023 at 9:22 am By Ben Witherington

Perhaps the best voice of the whole rock n roll era, and certainly one of the best songwriters and performers for the last 50 or so years is Gino Vannelli, who’s jazz rock is in a class by itself, and he still has a killer voice and band. Gino who is exactly the same age as me, has has been performing since he was 20. His first real tour after his first record (Crazy Life) was opening for Stevie Wonder... Read more

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Gino at his Best!

2023-09-02T13:43:56-04:00

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Dialogue with Father James Martin– Part Twelve

Last updated on: September 2, 2023 at 1:43 pm By Ben Witherington

Q. I have always thought that at least sometimes, and particularly in John 11, the phrase ‘the Jews’ means the Jewish officials who attended Lazarus’s period of mourning, and if Lazarus is the BD, he is well known to Caiaphas and has access to his house, as a known person, that Peter does not have. I don’t think the Fourth Gospel is anti-Semitic, nor anti-OT, for Christ is busy fulfilling the Scriptures, but of course it was horribly used for... Read more

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Who are the Jews in John 11?

2023-09-02T13:40:27-04:00

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Dialogue with Father James Martin– Part Eleven

Last updated on: September 2, 2023 at 1:40 pm By Ben Witherington

Q. Why do you think the story of the meal with the Beloved Disciple and with the footwashing is the climax of the meal stories, and we don’t really have the Passover meal story from Thursday night, with no ‘this is my body, this is my blood’ interpretation of the Passover elements? Does this have to do with John’s early proclamation that Jesus is the lamb of God who takes away the world’s sin? Not only is Jesus the... Read more

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Footwashing at the Eucharist?

2023-09-02T13:36:33-04:00

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Dialogue with Father James Martin– Part Ten

Last updated on: September 2, 2023 at 1:36 pm By Ben Witherington

Q. It has always struck me that the only fully adequate confessions of Christ’s being part of the divine identity in the 4th Gospel are the one in the prologue in John 1, and the confession of Thomas ‘my Lord and my God’ after Jesus has written. All these other confessions like Martha’s, ‘I believe you are the Messiah….’ are true but inadequate. Jesus doesn’t merely cause resurrection and life, he is the resurrection and life, and Martha doesn’t... Read more

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