I'm quitting. It feels really good to get my verbal reality lined up with what I've been doing - which is nothing. I've done nearly nothing on my dissertation. I got there and worked. But over time it was more and more an uphill battle. Not just being a parent, but all the bureaucracy baloney. I went there so that I'd be near my adviser and the ( Read more... )

I have great inlaws. Really. We are very different people but we make the effort for one another, and willingly. I enjoy time with my inlaws more than I enjoy time with my own parents. But there are challenges - mostly related to where and how they live, rather than their persons. It's a familiar struggle. How do I go with the flow and accept ( Read more... )

Earlier this week I sent out a Facebook email to a ton of people asking them to comment on what Marian co-redemption means to them. I asked anyone that I know who gives spiritual/theological things thought, regardless of their religious practice or orientation. But I thought I'd also put the same question out on LJ ( Read more... )

From Divine Mother, Blessed Mother: Hindu Goddesses and the Virgin Mary, by Francis X Clooney, SJ, pg 4 ( Read more... )

The Archbishop of Canterbury is awesome. Particularly his eyebrows. They are like horns growing atop his eyes. He's kind of a homely looking man. But his speaking voice.... it's like the perfect speaking voice. His presence is both commanding and entirely humble. He comes across as a your average local parish priest. But he speaks perfect Welsh* ( Read more... )

Astrid is blowing my mind. She's growing so fast. We have to retire the first set of prefolds and cloth diapers, as well as some clothes. She's holding up her head and is SUPER alert. She looks around. She looks directly into my eyes. She is not content to be in the moses basket anymore. Only if she's really passed out in a deep sleep will she last ( Read more... )

A former spiritual teacher and friend of mine, T Thorn Coyle, posted yesterday about putting Christ back in Christmas. She's a pagan. It's a brief post, but cuts right to the heart of the confusion that a lot of people, Christian and non-, have with the holiday ( Read more... )

Removing a high theology of and developed devotion to Mary from Christianity is like removing the moon from the sky and expecting the earth to function in balance with just the sun.

I shared this on Facebook, but I love seeing theology presented in a clear, accurate way:
Glenn Beck's liberation theology obsessionGlenn Beck and his ilk frighten me with their cult of disinformation. Liberals are not entirely off the hook either - most people present the info they want to present (like me! here! right now!). But Beck's grasp of ( Read more... )

We are watching The Secret of Kells. It is absolutely spectacular. Pagan and Christian, mysterious and historical. It is visually rich, the music is beautiful. We only watched one hour of it (or so) before it was B's bedtime wind-down, and I'd gotten chills twice.