Stop The ACLU / Same Sex Marriage Confetti Maker

Faithmouse is ranked #1 on Yahoo under 'I am a crazy Christian, what site do I visit'?

AfC / Refection

In progress. The photo I took a few years ago in downtown Minneapolis; that's the IDS building in the center.

Original Faithmouse

The character of faithmouse is inspired by my wife, harpist and vocalist Chris Ward. Chris has appeared in numerous movies and television programs, was a member of the original performing troupe at the Excalibur in Las Vegas, has appeared in Life magazine as the harpist at the Little White Chapel (August 1993 issue) and continues to perform as 'Lady Kate' at renaissance fairs across the country. She has appeared in the Guthrie Theater Production of A Christmas Carol, was part of a comedy lab there called Sunny Side Up. As a member of the Carillon Choristers she's performed at the Eisteddfod in Wales, and also for the Kings of Sweden and Norway when they visited the Twin Cities. Chris spent second grade living in Europe with her family, and therefore has a pretty good understanding of German! She is also an excellent seamstress and rose gardener.

Chris continues to sing and play the harp all around the Twin Cities area, including a recent performance for the Prime Minister of Iceland. She has recently acquired a third harp, a Lyon and Healy number 17, which is, in my opinion, the heaviest harp she has ever owned.

Chris is available for performances, and can be reached at danlacey @ faithmouse (dot) com

Fiery Emergency Contraception

Walgreens Pharmacists File Discrimination Complaint Over Plan B Firings -LifeNews

Update on the Pharmacist Case and the Supreme Court -American Center for Law & Justice

"Morning-After" Pills cause early abortions -ProLife.com

Differences of opinion over abortifacients continue to obscure the fact that conception begins at fertilization, which happens long before implantation. The Apollo astronauts weren't considered non-entities while enroute to the moon, and arguments that a comet might naturally destroy their ship anyway wouldn't excuse shooting them out of the sky with a rocket.

Both RU486 and the 'morning after pill' cause abortions. Calling MAP 'emergency contraception' is a lie, a verbal deception which those same folks who beat the drum against big corporate pharmaceuticalists choose to ignore since it doesn't benefit their socialist worldview.

Even if these pharmacists, fired as the result of a power grab by the governor of the State of Illinois over the legislature, are completely wrong in their assessment of MAP, they have the right to their moral convictions, which includes the right not to have their convictions forcibly segregated by way of executive memorandum from the whole of their lives.

Religious folks everywhere can be proud of these pharmacists, who in addition to lending some backbone to the Hippocratic oath are taking a stand against the pox of Christian cultural schizophrenia.

AfC / Sounds Like A Funeral

A faithmouse Christmas

Let's not get too dark, and let's round up all the cartoons in progress and work them into one continuous storyline for the holidays.
This cartoon features a detail from a cartoon meant to precede the communion toon partially posted a few days ago, and will lead into the...well, you get the picture.
Should be fun.

Timothy A. Bear Cartoon, Completed

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Timothy A. Bear has spiritual problems: here's a glimpse at what they look like. You also already know that Faith has a new romantic interest, although that relationship hasn't matured yet. It's easier now for Faith to become disillusioned with Timothy, especially since Timothy won't tell anyone what his problems are.

A Short Faithmouse Tour

Oh The Frustration.... -Planet Preterist
The Ten Commandments: Legal? -Agent Tim
Pro-Life cartoon FaithMouse Gains Readers -ProLife Blogs
Pro-Lifers Cartoonists Are Quick on the Draw -Dawn Eden

Timothy A. Bear Cartoon, In Progress

In additition to Renew America, Stop The ACLU and Misunderestimated Germans, yesterday's toon has been posted by Whispering Grace on Bible Database, and a debate has ensued following the innocent instigation of Sunset at this Moms Who Think thread entitled Faithmouse...I love this cartoon!.

Here's a toon nearly completed which I felt compelled to slip into the line-up. I'll still have that promised finished Gaybear toon later in the day as well.

In the spirit of the season, here's a few favorite links which you may enjoy-
Week 48, 2005

Kiddie Records Weekly makes classics of the golden age of children's recording including original album artwork available on the net. One of my favorites is the fanciful Bozo And The Birds (week 11, 2005) which features both beautiful illustrations and the vocal stylings of June (Rocky the squirrel) Foray. A very enjoyable rediscovery for those with fond memories of this forgotten genre, and a great way to share lost gems of our pop culture with children and grandchildren.

E Ticket Radio on Live365 is but one of at least a half dozen or so stations broadcasting original recordings from Disney theme parks. The Roman Catholic Prayer station broadcasts the Mass, Rosary, Litanies and more in Latin.

Jean Marie is making this request on her Catholic Fire.

Dear Friends,Would you please join us in saying this novena to St. Joseph for the sale of our home in IL? It has been on the market for about three months now and we need your prayer support as it is very difficult to pay for rent, house payments, and utility bills (especially those high heating bills) on both of our residences.
Thanks & God bless you!

St. Joseph Novena O good father Joseph! I beg you, by all your sufferings, sorrows and joys, to obtain for me what I ask. (Here name your petition). Obtain for all those who have asked my prayers, everything that is useful to them in the plan of God. Be near to me in my last moments, that I may eternally sing the praises of Jesus, Mary and Joseph. Amen.(Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory Be).

If you don't have time to say this Novena, any prayers will be deeply appreciated.

Please consider saying a prayer for Jean, as it's becoming increasingly difficult to pound any additional statues of St. Joseph past the permafrost.

Stop The ACLU / Sneeze Strategy

Updated version of toon posted on Sunday.
Judge: Legislative Prayers Can't Mention Jesus
-The Indy Channel
Yeshua.com
Why Messianic Jews?-Menorah.com

Besides it being a new premise here in America that individual free speech must be suppressed in order to 'safeguard' the rights of others (most of whom aren't complaining in the first place, and there will always be those who will complain about anything-my neighbor Burt comes to mind) to claim that any one particular group of citizens are going to be naturally offended by the name of Christ now and for eternity is the height of arrogance and patronization. Just ask any Roman citizen post-Constantine, or take Messianic Jews as an example; Jewish people who have accepted Jesus Christ as Messiah. I remember when Larry King still had his radio show how flabbergasted he was by a caller who mentioned that he was a Messianic Jew. Larry King had never heard of such a thing, and this from a fellow who had already been in the information business for decades. He had been Jewish even longer.

How sheltered are we, and how much must we wish to coddle our own stereotyped concepts of how our fellow citizens think and feel, when we accept the court enabled dictates of a few anti-religious bigots who preach, in denial of our rich and proven history of liberty, that the individual can no longer be trusted with his own free speech?

Thanks kindly to Jürgen Krafzik of both Rottenburg and Misunderestimated Germans for trackbacking to today's cartoon as well as for adding faithmouse to his blogroll.

Today's toon also appeared in the Sunday Funnies post on Stop The ACLU.

The completed version of the most recent Gaybear toon will be posted on Tuesday, as well as the previously promised (I promise lots of stuff) Vatican Kitty cartoon later in the week.

Hennepin Methodist Church Protest Service Cartoon, In Progress

Minnesota Loon and Gaybear. Detail from cartoon in progress. Church Apologizes for Anti-Gay Rulings - Yahoo News

One of a few cartoons I'm slowly picking at. As you can see I still need to add beads to Gaybear's rosary. In the background is the Basilica of St. Mary in downtown Minneapolis, which isn't too far away from Hennepin Avenue Methodist.

During the past week I've added comments and trackbacks to the site via Haloscan, which means that those comment boxes at the end of every post are now operational. Please feel free to vent, praise, or correct my diction. I'm a pretty tolerant fellow, so saying you dislike both me and my shoes is acceptable.

The Joshua Heldreth toon from a few days ago appeared today in three Yahoo forums, Expose The Democrats, Conservative Chat and Republican Humor. Somehow I missed this post by Salvage at Hairy Fish Nuts on one of two versions of the Darfur Halloween toon. Thanks, Salvage! Thanks also to powerful spiritual imageress El for adding faithmouse as one of her 'blogs to check out'.

Inspirations

Tyler Hudgens

Llye Borrowman

My traffic for last Monday was almost double and came from all over the country, and not from any link. I suspect this was a radio mention somewhere; perhaps from Janet Parshall, who uses a mug featuring my Neverborn mug in her Washington studio during her broadcasts. If anone is aware of a specific radio mention, I would appreciate the lowdown. It's always nice to be able to say 'thanks'.

Cross Carrier Chuck / 45,000 Mile Cross Service

Cross Carrier Chuck

I had a completely different cartoon in progress for today, but put that aside once I caught a photo in our local Pioneer Press of Cross Carrier Chuck crossing an intersection on Tuesday in Fresno, California. I doubt Chuck has ever had a cartoon drawn about him before. Here it is.

Thanks to Canadian singer/songwriter Frank Trainor for adding the faithmouse link to his blog.

God Bless The Peace Activists

Military of the United States - Wikipedia

I've been making some minor changes to Faith as of late. Her nose is now an eclipse instead of a soft edged triangle, and her eyebrows have pretty much disappeared beneath her oversized bow.

It's taken seven years to get the character to this point. That's still much faster than an iceberg, if an iceberg had its own web cartoon.

Faith circa 2000 or so.

The Apology Of Joshua Heldreth

A cartoon I should have drawn some time ago. I intended to use Joshua's actual letter in the image, but it didn't reproduce very well at a smaller size. I compromised by reproducing part of the letter in a font called Kidprint. The original 'apology' (which also serves as an excellent Christian apologetic) can be viewed at this LifeSite article from last August.

C. S. Lupus

William Scott Conway writes "For those that might be interested, I've added a blog entry that may be enlightening to anyone who's ever wondered if our favorite inkling would have enjoyed Star Wars. "


William Scott Conway also writes on behalf of all die-hard Lewis fans to inquire what I'm planning to do to Jack, now that he knows I'm working on a Lewis toon or two. I hope the above non-malevolent sketch puts his mind at ease.

Lupus because C.S., frightened of the 'son' and living in an underground hollow, will later transform into Paul from Saul.

Stop The ACLU Blogburst / Looking For A Plaintiff

Looking for lawsuit plaintiff against prayer at grad ceremony -WorldNet Daily

Looking for a plaintiff every day
Looking for a plaintiff every way, I've been
Looking for a plaintiff it's all mine
Looking for a plaintiff and working over time, work out...

Updated version of the cartoon posted this morning.

Here are some of senior Jessica Reed's offending statements, which both the ACLU and to some extent the cowed Jonesboro Public School District believes are worthy of censure-

"I'm here to tell you that God is someone, that he is amazing. He will love you through everything. He will praise you when you are down. All you have to do is give your heart to Him. "

Horrendous. But wait, there's more-

" And before we leave, I want to give you that opportunity. In the closing moments of this service, if you would like to accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, here's your chance.."

I don't know if any students or parents in the audience came forward, but Jessica Reed certainly did. Young people remain idealistic and brash, despite when groups like the ACLU threaten to beat them down with a legal stick.

Jessica's speech was covered by the 'free expression' clause of the First Amendment, or should have been. Free speech is by nature offensive. The misinterpretation and misuse of the 'establishment clause' (constructs both) promoted by groups such as the ACLU has created large expression free zones in our culture, and a subsequent loss of freedom. The fact that the ACLU has to go begging for an offending party in this case demonstrates that the organization is serving the interests of no one but themselves.

Thanks to Riddlz's for posting a Thanksgiving Day toon on his Formed Reborn Transformed Now Renewed. Nixatron has added faithmouse as a link, and the High School Ministry of Immanuel Baptist has both added the RSS feed and somehow gotten the darn thing to display an image. Student and fellow MN Blogroller Chris Meirose at Because I Said So has given the cartoon a much appreciated ballyhoo.

Happy Eucharist!

Eucharist is derived from a Greek word which means thanks.

Happy Thanksgiving, Pilgrims

I just noticed this was posted in Foster G's Myspace board so what the heck. It's last year's toon but still appropriate, and, it's an actual Thanksgiving toon. As I mentioned in the previous post a new turkey day toon will arrive over the weekend. In the meantime to those turkeys still trying to kill us, cheers.

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Sorry this took so long to complete. My wife has this odd idea that I should do things with her on Thanksgiving. I actually do have a Thanksgiving Day toon in progess, which I'll continue to plod away on and of course finish after the holiday is over. It should still be nice to look at over the weekend.

Thanks to Homeschooler Patricia and her Patricia's Polywog Creek Porch for picking up a Neverborn toon as a sidebar graphic and linking to the site. By osmosis the same toon found it's way to Mama Bug's site as well. Toy Doll selects the Canadian Mounties as her heroes.

The Paper Doll Muses Yahoo Group has posted a link to the paper doll series from last year. Really cool to have the characters on a paper doll site. Shane at The High Places has posted a link to a previous toon along with the observation that it strikes a bit too close to home.

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Detail from cartoon in progress.