Bill Dunn's    FAITH & FUNNIES

Weekly homily and humor column

A Website dedicated to the two most important issues in life: Spending eternity in Heaven...
and having some laughs during the journey

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This week’s gospel reading contains one of the most startling statements in all of Scripture. Jesus returned to His hometown and, frankly, it did not go very well. The people were skeptical and suspicious of Him, and the Bible explains, “He was not able to perform any mighty deed there, apart from curing a few sick people.” Whoa, what gives? He was not ABLE to perform any mighty deed? (Continued...)

A few weeks ago I wrote about the defunct Torrington Twisters baseball team, which was a franchise in the New England Collegiate Baseball League for the past 12 years. In the dead of winter, the new owners of the team thumbed their noses at the good people of T-town and bolted for greener pastures, moving the franchise to New Bedford, MA. I lamented our loss of spirited amateur baseball, with the crack of genuine wooden bats echoing across the Naugatuck River from lovely old Fuessenich Park on warm starry summer nights. (Continued...)

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