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  • Premiere of Slinkk and Stinkk
    The Curator's Shelf | Sky Village | The Curator's List & Bookstore

    Premiere of Slinkk and Stinkk

    ByJames Butler May 14, 2026June 21, 2026

    The Kitties of Sky Village Slinkk and Stinkk: The Kitties of Sky Village Books I, II and III (the Pawlogy collection of all three), available now on Amazon. Sometimes you write a story. But cats tell the best stories. The latter was the case with Slinkk and Stinkk: The Kitties of Sky Village. The cats…

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  • The Curator's Shelf

    The Curator’s List

    ByJames Butler May 8, 2026May 28, 2026

    A Slice from Pastor Jim’s Bookshelf We live two miles down a dirt road, situated between Tightwad and Racket, Missouri, off the limestone bluffs of Truman Lake. A weekly pleasure is to travel with our neighborhood dinner group to restaurants across our rural area.  The inspiration for today’s blog is Primitive Olde Crowe Winery &…

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  • Audio Reflections | Reflections

    America’s Child: The Future of Hope

    ByJames Butler May 6, 2026July 20, 2026

    For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder- The Prophet Isaiah 9:6 A Child is Born According to the U.S. Census, a minority baby born in the U.S. next year will turn of voting age when minorities outnumber whites in the U.S….

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  • The Perfect Cause for the Rich

    Forces the Poor to Pay for Their Own Charity

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    The Perfect Cause for the Rich

    ByJames Butler May 2, 2026July 20, 2026

    Forces the Poor to Pay for Their Own Charity Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples: 2 “The teachers of the law and the Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat. 3 So you must be careful to do everything they tell you. But do not do what they do, for they do not…

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  • Parables & Satire | Reflections

    Gone to Meddlin’

    ByJames Butler April 16, 2026May 30, 2026

    The old country Methodist left church one Sunday grumbling, “That pastor’s quit preachin’ and gone to meddlin’!” That old phrase, circulated in some form among Baptist and Methodist circles, captures those inevitable days when the pastor crosses the line and steps out of the preformatted box that the church member had conceived for their pastor…

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  • The SHOT Line: A Subsurface Canal Bypassing Hormuz
    Reflections

    The SHOT Line: A Subsurface Canal Bypassing Hormuz

    ByJames Butler April 14, 2026July 22, 2026

    A canal beneath the conflict In watching the body count rise, along with the risk of WWIII in the U.S.’s blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, I offer this concept of an asphalt-lined subsurface oil and gas canal and corridor. The asphalt based tunnel overcomes steel pipeline engineering problems by using an oil based product…

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  • The American Ownership Amendment

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  • Audio Reflections | Parables & Satire | The Almanac

    Baptist Preachers and Wishful Thinking

    ByJames Butler February 20, 2026May 30, 2026

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