When I was in seventh grade, I became very good friends with two girls.  They considered themselves each others' best friends but I'd just moved to Honduras and being Americans, we were in the minority and naturally gravitated to each other (we'll call them Annie and Rose for the sake of this blog).  Both Annie and my dad worked for the U.S. Agency ( Read more... )

Currently, feeling irritated due to a Facebook posting by a former high school teacher (who was/is uber-conservative-Christian in the somewhat scary kind of way) expressing his "deep concern" regarding the number of Christians practicing. . . (wait for it). . . yoga.  He then had 23 comments, most of which agreed with this idea that yoga, being a ( Read more... )

While I was browsing the internet for yoga related images for yesterday's post, I came across a Christian blog that was discussing the "spiritual dangers" of yoga and why "Christians should NOT practice yoga."  I was so shocked and puzzled by it but then I recalled that this is the world I came from and though my parents never expressed strong ( Read more... )