Apples to Apples: Bible Edition
Wed. Dec. 29: beginning ~8pmHaving learned that a Bible Edition of Apples to Apples exists, I had to get myself a copy.  I make no promises about the game itself (this will be the first time I play it), but I can promise the presence of myself and my bff and an Internet and a host of books, so good times should be ( Read more... )

Her response to conflict/disagreement is to want to minimize it, to not focus on it, because we are in Communion. (This isn't even necessarily a feeling that disagreement is inherently bad and to be avoided, just that dwelling on it doesn't serve anything ( Read more... )

Back when Ari was first talking about her weekend-long birthday party, and the sleepover component, I claimed dibs on sharing her bed. In the week or so leading up to the party, our expressions of "I will have a you!" and (because I was arriving Friday afternoon) "I will not have to share you for a whole day!" could totally have sounded like we ( Read more... )

Saturday night's party ended up being just me, Ari, thelastgoodname, and mayhap -- which actually worked out really well ( Read more... )

This is why we are bffs.  DTR followed by research into perpetual virginity of Mary Mother of Jesus, leading to assorted AUs, also involving Thomas the Twin (largely thanks to Prof. Koester's class last night).  "Kate.  Short for Bob."

References from the evening:
* Oh Ephraem of Syria No
* "creative nonfiction"
* "sex on the Sabbath is a double ( Read more... )

Ari and I on the phone tonight: "We should probably go, since we're out of stuff to say -- but we won't talk again until SATURDAY."

We are NotDating such that we have DTRs :)

FCS-Ian added a whole bunch of hymns to the rotation for Lenten morning prayer service, which I was stoked about. Peter (husband of Rev.Molly, so has been at First Church UCC for over 7 years and probably in the UCC for longer, but grew up Episcopalian) mentioned that he didn't know some of the ones that had been added. I was surprised because I' ( Read more... )

One of the readings at Simple Shifts tonight was Romans 12, and at "Do not be conformed to the world," I thought of Ari, because we routinely invoke that exhortation when we see Christians buying into paradigms of the dominant society which we feel are in conflict with God's Will.  (For example, when someone at a church meeting says, "I can eat ( Read more... )

What with Scott's phone call and everything, I was still up at about quarter of midnight.  I considered staying up to officially ring in the new year, but what was I gonna do?  My housemate was out at a party and I didn't have any particular interest in watching the ball drop or anything.  I decided that heading towards sleep and praying for people ( Read more... )