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Calvinist Coffee - yes, really

questioningquestioning Shipmate
in Heaven
I don't know whether this is heaven or hell. I've put it in heaven because I don't want to get into debates about dead horses. It really belongs in Junk for Jehovah.

I came across Reformed Roasters. Pretty much every page on the website is worth a visit. TULIP coffee anyone? Which one of the 5 points would you serve?

The only reaction I can muster is "Oh dear, oh dear!"

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  • stetsonstetson Shipmate
    That site appears to support certain conservative political causes that I will not elaborate upon. I wonder if the coffee sales are the "donations" that they refer to on their financial scoreboard.
  • questioningquestioning Shipmate
    I suspect at least some of the proceeds are the donations. I agree with you about the political causes. The whole thing just seems... bizarre and unfortunate.
  • Lamb ChoppedLamb Chopped Shipmate
    Oh dear, oh dear! I have to admit to a sneaking desire for Total Depravity. Just so I could diplay it somewhere and give people heart attacks.
  • Graven ImageGraven Image Shipmate
    The Bible Covers seem to have been very. popular. Sold Out.
  • questioningquestioning Shipmate
    Oooh, I'd missed the Bible Covers. However, I truly wouldn't mind one of these mugs.
  • Lamb ChoppedLamb Chopped Shipmate
    I showed that to my son as something to carry around at seminary some day!
  • Gill HGill H Shipmate
    There is a small chain in the UK called Redemption Roasters, but it’s just a name. Don’t think these guys are any threat!
  • Baptist TrainfanBaptist Trainfan Shipmate
    I'd rather have this (and I know it's good coffee because I have drunk it): https://www.manumitcoffee.co.uk
  • Baptist TrainfanBaptist Trainfan Shipmate
    Would this coffee provide a challenge (even though it's probably a spelling mistake)?

    https://www.relaxncoffee.eu/product-tag/arminian-coffee-online/
  • Nick TamenNick Tamen Shipmate
    Lamb Chopped wrote: »
    Oh dear, oh dear! I have to admit to a sneaking desire for Total Depravity. Just so I could diplay it somewhere and give people heart attacks.
    questioning wrote: »
    . . . I truly wouldn't mind one of these mugs.
    Same here to both. I wouldn’t mind Perseverance of the Saints either. :lol:

    But yeah, not buying from them. And despite my laughter at Total Depravity and Perseverance of the Saints, this does reinforce the irk I get when Reformed is equated to TULIP.

    When I get a chance, I must find the bottle of Calvin beer (I think it had a much better name) that we got some years ago at the PC(USA) General Assembly. The label was great.

  • TurquoiseTasticTurquoiseTastic Kerygmania Host
    Nick Tamen wrote: »
    Lamb Chopped wrote: »
    Oh dear, oh dear! I have to admit to a sneaking desire for Total Depravity. Just so I could diplay it somewhere and give people heart attacks.
    questioning wrote: »
    . . . I truly wouldn't mind one of these mugs.
    Same here to both. I wouldn’t mind Perseverance of the Saints either. :lol:

    But yeah, not buying from them.

    You could always make your own instead! I'm pretty sure the phrase "Total Depravity" isn't a trademark...
  • Nick TamenNick Tamen Shipmate
    TurquoiseTastic wrote: »
    Nick Tamen wrote: »
    Lamb Chopped wrote: »
    Oh dear, oh dear! I have to admit to a sneaking desire for Total Depravity. Just so I could diplay it somewhere and give people heart attacks.
    questioning wrote: »
    . . . I truly wouldn't mind one of these mugs.
    Same here to both. I wouldn’t mind Perseverance of the Saints either. :lol:

    But yeah, not buying from them.

    You could always make your own instead! I'm pretty sure the phrase "Total Depravity" isn't a trademark...
    True, but that would require things like roasting, packaging and selling, which are things I have neither the ability nor the desire to do.

  • Lamb ChoppedLamb Chopped Shipmate
    There are websites where you can design and make your own mug, just sayin'. My son did so when a reader wrote to me to tell me that I was a "damnable heretic Martin Luther himself would be ashamed of!" LL put it in Fraktur style type in gold on a burgundy background, and I carried it proudly through the office until I scandalized my boss with it, and realized that some people think my sense of humor is a bit too much. It's at home now.
  • Nick TamenNick Tamen Shipmate
    edited June 2024
    Lamb Chopped wrote: »
    There are websites where you can design and make your own mug, just sayin'. My son did so when a reader wrote to me to tell me that I was a "damnable heretic Martin Luther himself would be ashamed of!" LL put it in Fraktur style type in gold on a burgundy background, and I carried it proudly through the office until I scandalized my boss with it, and realized that some people think my sense of humor is a bit too much. It's at home now.

    Oh yeah, that I could totally do. Our minister has one on her desk—“Be Careful or You’ll End Up in My Sermon.”

    Meanwhile, your boss sounds like he could use a little scandalizing. :wink:

  • Lamb ChoppedLamb Chopped Shipmate
    He’s taken a call elsewhere but was so concerned he actually made me a complimentary mug to balance things, i guess. Some folks don’t feel comfortable with black humor. A nice guy though
  • HedgehogHedgehog Shipmate
    Lamb Chopped wrote: »
    There are websites where you can design and make your own mug, just sayin'. My son did so when a reader wrote to me to tell me that I was a "damnable heretic Martin Luther himself would be ashamed of!" LL put it in Fraktur style type in gold on a burgundy background, and I carried it proudly through the office until I scandalized my boss with it, and realized that some people think my sense of humor is a bit too much. It's at home now.

    This reminds me of a government attorney I knew some years back. He was dealing with an unrepresented litigant--which is often the most stressful cases because, as an attorney you have to follow rules and protocols while the unrepresented litigant often feels free to do whatever the heck they want. (To be fair, sometimes it is because they actually do not know any better, but sometimes it is just to be annoying.)

    Anyway, because the attorney would sign off on pleadings with the title that he was "Attorney for the State," the litigant, in his pleadings, started referring to him as "the Idiot for the State." I don't think it ever occurred to my acquaintance to put it on a coffee mug, but I do know that he deeply contemplated having business cards made up giving his title as "Idiot For The State."
  • Ex_OrganistEx_Organist Shipmate
    At the other extreme in thr USA you can buy Orthodox monastic coffee: https://www.burningbushcoffee.com/
  • Nick TamenNick Tamen Shipmate
    Nice! I like the name. :wink:

    (While I do understand the significance of the symbol in Orthodoxy (which the logo and typeface here underscore), a name like “Burning Bush” can also appeal to French Reformed and Presbyterians.)


  • BroJamesBroJames Purgatory Host
    But could you drink it nec tamen consumebatur.





    (Tr. ‘nor was it consumed’)
  • Nick TamenNick Tamen Shipmate
    BroJames wrote: »
    But could you drink it nec tamen consumebatur.





    (Tr. ‘nor was it consumed’)
    :notworthy:

    Having your brew and drinking it too.
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