The Chicken Wins by a Head

…with the rabbit on the tail end.

Most of the interesting search queries in this blog’s stats still have something to do with poor old headless Mike. Queries on the subject of potty training come in a close second.

Today, the stats recorded a few queries for “peter rabbit jams and jellies.” Searching back through the other results for that search, I didn’t find any Peter Rabbit jams and jellies, but I did find Peter Rabbit’s Carrot Marmalade.

I also found out, in a Trails.com blurb about Massachusettes’ Briar Patch Conservation Area, that Thornton Burgess created Peter Rabbit.

Bzzzzzzzt! Wrong answer!

Beatrix Potter created Peter Rabbit. Thorton Burgess, inspired by Beatrix Potter’s animal tales, created Peter Cottontail. (A more cynical person might call it shameless copying.)

Here are a few other rabbits in children’s literature:

• Rabbit, in A. A. Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh stories.
• In addition to Peter Rabbit, Beatrix Potter has Benjamin Bunny, and Peter’s siblings: Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cotton-tail (with a hyphen).
  
• Brer Rabbit in the Uncle Remus stories.
• The Velveteen Rabbit.
• Update: Brian adds Barrington Bunny to the list.
  
• Candyinsierras reminds us of Margaret Wise Brown’s Runaway Bunny.
• Update 2: Rose contributes the Snuggle Bunny.
• Lisa J adds a few: Little Nutbrown Hare from Guess How Much I Love You
• and Hazel, Fiver, and BigWig from Watership Down.
• Update 3: We can’t forget The White Rabbit from Alice in Wonderland, says Missmelliflous.
  

Can you think of others?

Popular Posts from the Past: Getting Your Theology on Track

[This is yet another post from my blogging past. The day after Christmas 2005, I put this post together on the spur of the moment right before I flew off to Vancouver for a week’s holiday. During my holiday, I pretty much forgot I even had a blog, and it I was a little surprised to come back and find that there had been quite a bit of response to this post, both in the comments and on other blogs. Current events, not to mention a little summertime blogger’s block, played a part in my choosing to repost this particular post right now . ]

Generally speaking, I’m a C. S. Lewis fan. I’m willing to overlook  disagreements I have with his theology because of the clarity of his writing. There is, however, a book of his I didn’t like at all, and that’s A Grief Observed. It came highly recommended to me, and I read it twice after my husband died, but I found it much more disturbing than helpful. His wife’s death brings Lewis to a place of real despair, something I tried to understand, but just couldn’t, even though our circumstances were very similar. I couldn’t help wondering how he’d thought God worked in the world that something like his wife’s suffering and death would pull the rug out from under his faith. 

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Wherein do justification and sanctification differ?

Although sanctification be inseparably joined with justification,[1] yet they differ, in that God in justification imputeth the righteousness of Christ;[2] in sanctification his Spirit infuseth grace, and enableth to the exercise thereof;[3] in the former, sin is pardoned;[4] in the other, it is subdued:[5] the one doth equally free all believers from the revenging wrath of God, and that perfectly in this life, that they never fall into condemnation;[6] the other is neither equal in all,[7] nor in this life perfect in any,[8] but growing up to perfection.[9]

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