FAITH
Friday, December 1, 2017
LIMEY PASTOR
Dogs and cats in
a pastoral home:
A moment
O
ur foster dog, Shorty, has established his
dominance. The smallest of the animals in our
menagerie, a poodle, he has shown himself to
be the king of the animals in spirit and spunk.
Shorty belongs to a homeless friend who asked us
to look after him for her, while she reformulated a few
things in her life. He has a small body, a puffball for
a tail, a top-knot and a dapper face with pink smiling
lips. A circus dog in fact, with his
panache and ability to project his
bark — and a courageous heart
inhabits all of him.
He has been the object of our
neighbor dog’s attention since he
arrived. Oso, the Labrador next
door, has seen Shorty as the ideal
playmate, the Dog Robin for the Dog
Batman, so to speak. Shorty is pretty
Colin
adorable.
Brown
Oso, being a solo dog in his
Faith
garden next door, has longed for the
community of canines in our garden,
Mushu the Pekingese and Samuel the Dachshund for
whom, if he was in their company, along with Shorty,
would give him a respectable posse.
Oso, a tall, sleek boy dog, with a good
temperament and rippling muscularity, has a scale that
can surely intimidate other large animals, except for
the one animal who has a much enlarged sense of self,
the poodle — Shorty. A different story.
Shorty has become Oso’s nemesis.
Oso had been planning a break-in to our yard
for some while and had seen a plank of wood in
our common fence with a looseness that could be
pried apart. I looked out of the corner of my eye one
evening and saw that Oso had pushed out the slat
onto the grass and was snaking his massive body
from his yard into ours. Like a whale giving birth,
the fence calved out some more slats and the big
black Labrador tumbled on the veldt of our lawn. The
Pekingese and the Dachshund, having a better eye for
geometry and their odds, came belting back in through
our kitchen door, and the two cats — Darko, the
elephantine black cat and Gracy, our elderly wisp of a
gray cat — streaked in on a second wave to enter the
appropriately sized cat door in the kitchen.
Shorty, however, being unfazed by intelligent
calculation, rippled with invaded anger and roared.
Not a poodle’s whimper, but a growling roar
emanating from some atavistic cave in his belly. He
fired himself from the pistol of his entire being, a
canine “Wyatt Earp” in full lawman vengeance.
The poor, over-friendly Labrador examined his
resources and found them to be wildly wanting.
Panicking and squealing like a pup, the poor doggie
hurled himself back in full retreat, back through the
fence. But the fence did not flex in so convenient a
way and poor Oso landed in the cleft of the fence,
front paws waggling in space, with his hindquarters
exposed to the savage poodle.
I was able to lunge forward and cup the poodle’s
quivering body, flush with rage, and lift him away
from Oso’s rear end, and took him back to the kitchen
door vibrating with fury where I inserted him back
into his holster and closed the dog door.
Oso hung in mid-air, and I helped him inch forward
through the fence to get his paws back on his own safe
grass and return to the shelter of his own house.
A lesson learned for that Labrador no doubt. But I
do need to teach Shorty how to love his neighbor as
our Lord has taught us, without biting his neighbor on
the grass.
Amen.
■
Colin Brown is the former pastor of Good Shepherd
Lutheran Church in Boardman.
East Oregonian
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Staunch conservative allies defend Moore
Associated Press
federal judiciary.
Ben DuPre
DuPre, Moore’s former
chief of staff at the Supreme
Court, spoke along with
Young outside the Capitol in
Moore’s defense. He’s a staff
attorney for Alabama Supreme
Court Associate Justice Tom
Parker, a one-time Moore aide
who won statewide office on
Moore’s coattails.
In a move that could land
him on late-night TV, DuPre
positioned himself between
Moore and a comic plant from
Jimmy Kimmel’s television
show during a church service
where Moore spoke Wednesday
AP Photo/Brynn Anderson, File
In this Tuesday, Nov. 21 photo, Ben DuPre, right, Dean Young, night in south Alabama.
Video showed DuPre
left speaks at a news conference in Montgomery, Ala.
attempting to remove the
which he founded, Young Moore and teenage girls. comic, Tony Barbieri from
became a spokesman for Standing beside campaign the front of the church before
an embattled Moore when chairman Bill Armistead, the a pastor threatened to have
then-Gov. Fob James vowed to 47-year-old Jauregui tried to any other disruptors arrested.
call out the Alabama National discredit an accuser’s story DuPre’s LinkedIn profile says
he worked nearly a decade at the
and praised Moore.
Guard to protect the plaque.
“I’ve probably been with nonprofit Foundation for Moral
That fight made Moore a hero
to the Christian right, propelling him in probably over 100 meet- Law, which Moore founded.
Rich Hobson
him — and Young — to bigger ings and been around probably
As chief justice, Moore
stages. Moore was elected chief in excess of 10,000 ladies in
justice of the Alabama Supreme Judge Moore’s presence. And tapped Hobson to lead the
Court as Young continued not once, not one time, have I administrative agency that
supporting Moore, sometimes ever seen him act even remotely oversees Alabama’s court
inappropriately against any system in 2000.
from a distance.
Moore was removed from
Young, 53, also got into woman,” said Jauregui, 47.
Like Young, Jauregui’s office in 2003 for ignoring a
politics eventually.
He unsuccessfully ran for affiliation goes back to the federal court order to remove
lieutenant governor and a ‘90s, when Jauregui worked his Ten Commandments
congressional seat in south as a deputy legal adviser for monument from the state’s
Alabama, most recently then-Gov. James. Jauregui later judicial building, and Hobson
last year. In a letter released represented Moore as a private was fired by the other justices
by Young’s congressional attorney and chaired his 2000 days later. He later went to
campaign in 2013, Moore campaign for chief justice. work as executive director of
wrote: “May God grant you Moore campaigned for Jauregui the Foundation for Moral Law.
When about 20 religious
favor and bless you as you when Jauregui ran for Congress
leaders spoke on Moore’s
seek to serve Him and the unsuccessfully in 2004.
people of Alabama.”
Currently on leave from behalf at a recent event,
Phillip Jauregui
his suburban Birmingham law one from rural Alabama
An attorney, Jauregui also firm, Jauregui is president of mentioned being invited to the
has been a campaign surrogate Judicial Action Group, which event by “Rich,” a reference
to fend off questions about advocates for a conservative to Hobson.
BIRMINGHAM,
Ala.
— With Roy Moore’s Repub-
lican U.S. Senate candidacy
threatened by sexual miscon-
duct claims, one of his closest
aides recently stepped up to a
microphone outside the state
Capitol and jabbed at the air.
Declaring that God has picked
Alabama voters to decide the
nation’s future, he urged them
not to be “tricked.”
“All hell is coming to
Alabama against Judge Roy
Moore,” said campaign strat-
egist Dean Young, spreading
his arms wide for effect.
Moore always has attracted
fervent believers willing to
cross state lines to support of
his mix of far-right politics
and conservative Christianity.
But Moore also is surrounded
by a circle of closer allies who
have stood with him for years
during culture wars that made
him a darling to religious
conservatives nationwide.
Decades-old accusations
involving young women are
now threatening Moore’s
political life in a race against
Democrat Doug Jones, and
his team is all in. They have
different roles, like players on a
football field. Here’s a look at
some of Moore’s inner circle:
Dean Young
Young, a bombastic fighter
with closely cropped hair, a
goatee and glasses, is often
seen near Moore in TV shots.
He’s been at Moore’s
side since the 1990s, when
Moore was a local judge
fighting the American Civil
Liberties Union after hanging
a handmade wooden plaque
of the Ten Commandments in
a courtroom. As head of the
Christian Family Association,
BRIEFLY
Tours present biblical story of Christmas
HERMISTON — A bustling outdoor village offers the
sights, sounds and smells of biblical times.
The story of Jesus’ birth and beyond is portrayed during
interactive tours presented during Journey to Bethlehem.
The free 20-30 minute guided tours are Friday through
Sunday from 5-8:30 p.m. behind the Hermiston Seventh-day
Adventist Church, 855 W. Highland Ave. While waiting for
their tour to start, people are invited to wait in the warmth
of the sanctuary and listen to music. Afterwards, people can
enjoy cookies and refreshments.
In its 10th year, Journey to Bethlehem provides insight into
the story of Jesus and the biblical significance of Christmas. It
features more than 100 costumed characters and live animals
help provide an authentic experience.
For more information, call 541-567-8241 or 541-289-3022.
Hymnspiration sings seasonal favorites
File photo
Larry and Darla Hanson put finishing touches on Herod’s
throne room prior to the 2015 Journey to Bethlehem. This
year’s interactive guided tours are Dec. 1-3 at the Hermis-
ton Seventh-day Adventist Church.
HERMISTON — The public is invited to sing fun and
familiar Christmas carols during an old-fashioned special
singing service.
The Hymnspiration is Sunday from 4:30-5:30 p.m. at
Victory Baptist Church, 193 E Main St., Hermiston. The
gathering features food, fun and fellowship.
For more information, contact Chris Finley at
johnchris_1@msn.com or 541-571-2516.
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