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2 Wednesday, April 14, 1999 Opinion H he CI ac U mas P rint The King is dead; long live the King that Lewis is a hero of mine, it should come as no surprise to learn that I suffer the same malady. But though intellectualism is invaluable for awak- ening the mind, it is less potent in awak Tke tar of an ening the heart. I wish, this week, not UNkNOWN Cod to present reasoned arguments or compel ling cases for Christ’s resurrection — though such exist— but merely to throw light ing, returned to the on my own experience, grind. It is easy to take and let them with ears to Easter for granted, even hear, hear. for those, like me, who We are afraid. We do find great significance not speak of these in the events com memorated in this Christian fes things, of deep joy and ferocious tival disguised in pagan clothing. love and wild peace, because we This year was different. There fear the scorn of rationalists, we was an odd convergence, a com fear the shame of appearing fool bination of elements that threw ish, and, above all, we fear the demand upon our life of the Easter into radiant light. I had the opportunity to attend claims of Christ. Nietzsche de a Good Friday service at my choir clared in despair that God is director’s Lutheran church. My dead, but we repeat it in relief, own Baptist comrades seldom glad of the removal of our awe practice such rituals, being sus some responsibility. But I would speak of Him. I picious of anything that smacks of a formalized “liturgy” (seldom would speak of the deep love of realizing that we practice a liturgy the God who stoops to conquer, of our own, if a less elegant one). who reaches down to draw man The beauty and gravity of the up. In every act of his earthly service struck a chord deep life, in the blood and sorrow of within me. The time for contem his dying woe, and now in tri plation, not of the Resurrection, umph, forever unsealing the but of the death of Christ was grave, he calls out: “Come to me. rich and meaningful. The mood, My peace I give to you. In the music and candlelight all helped world you will have trouble, but create an atmosphere where each take heart: I have overcome the soul could in its way draw near world.” That is the joy I have found. It to God. The suffering of Christ is of was renewed this Easter as I ten discussed, but I think it is worshipped the God who has not so often felt. The humilia drawn me to Himself. I ask for tion, pain, spiritual wretched nothing but that the reader come, ness and just pure alone-ness as I did, to the cross of Jesus of of Jesus as he was tortured and Galilee, and look into the eyes, killed are hardly real to us. But the face of one who bore our sor Good Friday helped to make it rows and died that we may live. real to me. I spent time in con If you then can turn away, so be templation and in fervent it. I leave you with the words of prayer. The presence of God in my life was awakened as it Isaac Watts: “See, from his head, his hands, his feet, sorrow and had not been in weeks. C.S. Lewis once confessed, love flow mingled down. Did e’er “My own work has suffered very such love and sorrow meet, or much from the incurable intellec thorns -compose so rich a tualism of my approach.” As crown?” I show you a more ex many have no doubt guessed cellent way. Two Sundays ago, a little holi day snuck by. Some fasted. Some prayed. Some sang. And some merely slept in, ate some chocolate and, Monday morn- AI 9 • • •• • •••••••••• • *-• •••••••••••• • • • Dr. Spew and Adam Corona Present... Send Letters to: spewandcorona@yahoo.com or use snail mail: C.C.C#B104 c/o Spew & Corona 19600 S. Molalla Ave. Oregon City, OR 97045 •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• TV, TV everywhere ... and not a show to see I spent last Wednesday home SPRING BREAK coverage, which sick. For most of the day, I means 24 hours per day of scant watched television, and I was a ily clad women. Pause. Click. little shocked at what I saw. Or The History Channel: 20th Cen- rather, what I didn’t see. With our basic cable, I e iN a have access to approxi To mately 40 or 50 channels. I started surfing around 11 er ect WoRld a.m., at the local channels. The plot on the soaps KARLKATZKE hadn’t progressed since Associate Editor my last sick day, so I didn’t waft around. Click. I blasted right through the tury with kids’ shows. Click. I paused a Mike Wallace. second on the Discovery Chan Finally, some nel until I saw that it was another thing that I showcase for wild animals hav could watch ing lunch... I find it amazing that and learn even the Discovery Channel has something from, without being to resort to violence to lure view exposed to sexual axe murderers ers. Click. or something better. Then Mr. I actually paused long enough Wallace introduced the subject on CNN to hear the newscaster of the show - Mass Murders. sound amazed that NATO bombs Click. hit the ground. Click. Oh, for goodness sake. Maybe Isn’t the idea of MTV to show the sci-fi channel would have videos? They were replaying their something remotely intelligent. B P The Clackamas Print aims to report the news in an honest, unbiased, pro fessional manner. The opinions ex pressed in The Clackamas Print do not necessarily reflect those of the student body, college administration, its faculty, or The Clackamas Print advertisers. Products and services ad vertised in The Clackamas Print are not neccesarily endorsed by anyone associated with The Clackamas Print. The advertising rate is $4.75 per col umn inch. All signed letters to the editor should be 300 words or less and will be considered for publica tion if submitted by 1 pm the Friday prior to publication. The Clackamas Print is a weekly publication and is distributed every Wednesday except during Finals week. The Clackamas Print Copyright 1999. F News Editor: Until “UFO sightings in Florida” came on. There an old woman in a muumuu... “Yep, it landed raight over thar a ways... It was big, and that thar’s where the li’l green men were...” I’d rather hear more about the New Carissa. Gag. Why do television program mers think that viewers are stu pid? It’s not that I’m particularly brilliant, or that I think deep thoughts for fun. I leave that kind of stuff to my colleague Mr. Shempert or the infamous in structor Dean Darris. I felt utterly insulted by what I saw that morning. Apparently, most American viewers want death and mayhem to be the fo cus of their television. 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