My friend Mike Hayes has written a nice response to my “Friends and Contacts” post, and in doing so named me a recipient of one of his Lenten “50-Day Giveaway” gifts. THANKS, MIKE!!!
The gift will certainly find pride of place on my desk, and is rather appropriate to the course I’m teaching this semester on Catholicism and Popular Culture in America. The gift is a “buddy Christ,” which you might remember from the movie Dogma. This week in class we’ll be discussing the movie The Exorcist, but we will finish out the semester discussing Dogma. So, I’ll definitely bring my gift along with me to class that day!
Mike is a good friend, and a great disciple to young adults across the nation! He’s way up there in Buffalo these days, so I don’t see enough of him. Still, I thank God for the gift of his friendship. And, yes, he is among the privileged few who appear in my text-messaging inbox!
He blogs at “Googling God,” which you’ll find a link to in my Blogroll, and a feed from down below that.
THIS ALSO SERVES AS A CHANCE FOR ME TO WISH A BLESSED EASTER TO ALL MY ‘BUDDIES’!
GODsTALKed~ 