Day 08. A song that you know all the words to

I learned this song SO early in my life being Baptist and the words are burned in my mind forever. However, after everything I have been through I think it fitting that my favorite rendition I have found is Whitney singing it in South Africa. This was of course when she was in the midst of her train ( Read more... )

The half way point. I think I have laid out most of the bombshell-type secrets, but am saving up one in particular in case I need it. Since this month and meme are half-way over, I thought I would write about something involving the half-way point of my life thus far - my 23rd year.

1986-87, the year I was 23, was also one of the years I was fully ( Read more... )

Well, for me anyway.

Nov 1 was All Souls/Saints Day, the traditional beginning of the church year. I attended services at Cathedral of Hope UCC (calling mrdreamjeans while on the drive into Dallas) as I have done for years. This will mark my annual return to church. I attend every year from today through Easter Sunday, sometimes through Pentecost Sunday. It ( Read more... )

Ganked from a buddy on Facebook ...this time they were protesting the Rock Church in San Diego this past weekend. The kids were interviewed with the permission of their parents - scary...

What was the defining moment you realized that God/Jesus loved you and accepted you for who you are, what you are, and how you fit in His beautiful array of diversity?

I have commented on aspects of this on my previous post about my faith journey including involvement with a cult during my 20's.

Being a child of the Baptist south, I struggled for a ( Read more... )

Yesterday I went to church for the first time in well over a year. I went back to Cathedral of Hope UCC where I am still a member, or at least think I still am. Anyway, since I have not attended in over a year I noticed a few changes when I attended yesterday, namely that there have been a bit of turnover in staff. Otherwise, the message was good, ( Read more... )

You will have major7  to thank or blame for this as it is at his prompting I am posting this all too true tale.

I mentioned in a comment on a prior post that I had been involved in a cult for 4 years. There is actually MUCH more to it than this so there is a good deal of back-story to mention. I do not know how to insert the cut on this so bear with the ( Read more... )

I was chatting with a buddy on bear411 today who is the pastor of a United Church of Canada congregation in Niagara Falls, ON and he mentioned that it is Thanksgiving there this weekend. This conjured up images of my Southern Baptist youth and the thematic hymns that were sung throughout the year. We discussed such ones as Come, Ye Faithful People ( Read more... )