{posted to Facebook}Thanksgiving is next week. Advent starts the Sunday after that and I expect to see whining posts about putting "Christ" in Christmas shortly there after ( Read more... )

I am liberal in many things ( Read more... )

Just found out that another of my very conservative, very "christian" relatives has unfriended me on Facebook. I feel hurt and saddened by this additional evidence of why our country is self-destructing. Half of it has no interest in understanding the views of the other and condemns them for what they think that half must be saying ( Read more... )

The first time I encountered this phrase, I thought it was snark, that Jesus was taunting the Pharisees because they couldn't understand what he was saying.

Matthew 9:13 "But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy and not sacrifice: For I am not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentence." (Ach imichibh agus fòghlumaibh ( Read more... )

I was looking up "pearls" of wisdom for the 12 Days (which I decided not to post after all) and came across this bit of advice.

Faodaidh fearg sealltainn a steach 'an cridh' an duine ghlic, ach còmhnaichidh i'n cridh' an amadain. Anger may look in on a wise man's heart, but it abides in the heart of a fool ( Read more... )

The Serenity Prayer God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
The courage to change the things I can,
And wisdom to know the difference.
I've been concentrating on the prayer-invocations to be found in the Carmina Gadelica (http://www.sacred-texts. ( Read more... )

Behold the Virgin, Child at breast ( Read more... )

This flap about Chick-a-fila has me wondering about Christian (or religious) values. Some aspects of our society go on and on about them, but I wonder - are they really *Christian* values that form the bulk of their actions. I can point to the one passage in the Christian Bible that formed my core beliefs with regard to my interactions with the ( Read more... )

I'm reading Chapter 4 of Genesis, the rivalry between Cain and Abel, and I'm thinking about a similar rivalry in the Old West of the United States; and of the Clearances of the Highlands of Scotland.

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