So tired of people automatically saying about both Orson Scott Card and Stephenie Meyer that their being Mormons explains anything they don't like about them. There are plenty of Mormons who manage NOT to actively work to dehumanize sexual minorities and take away what few rights they have (OSC) or who manage NOT to create characters who are ( Read more... )

You know, with weather like what we've had lately (torrential rain*, flooding, tornadoes, etc.) it becomes more and more difficult to convince certain people that the apocalypse probably isn't happening this weekend ( Read more... )

From More Light Presbyterians:

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Last year we had a seminary intern at our church named Malika whose family is from Haiti; one of the times when she preached she read a passage from the scripture in Haitian Creole, and it was so beautiful and you could tell it meant to much to her to share that with us. She's a deeply spiritual person and I can't imagine what she and the rest of ( Read more... )

Oh. My. God. My husband has returned from the Philadelphia Presbytery meeting with shocking, amazing, WONDERFUL news ( Read more... )

For anyone who was wondering how I could not have something to say about Jerry Falwell's death, I do, actually ( Read more... )

So now I've finished seven books for 2007. I have an ambitious 52 on my list, an average of one per week, and so far I'm ahead of schedule at one book for every five days in the year, so that will allow me to slow down on the longer books I have on my list. Right now I'm reading The Sight by David Clement-Davies, which is sort of like Watership ( Read more... )

Has everyone seen this nonsense?

Please, Ms. Harris, go read everything on the AU website. Now. And write me a report: 5000 words on Why I Am An Idiot For Thinking I Know Anything About the Separation Of Church And State or How a Government Can Have Just and Equitable Laws Without Resorting to Any Religious Basis For Them. Then name for me the ( Read more... )