But it's all that I can do some nights to slam the lid back on.

I actually had an odd dream last night that I wound up in a class for adult aspies.

Aspies are not actually anything alike. We all still have different personalities and genes and preferences and beliefs and opinions. While it's more likely than not that we'll be logical and analytical, this doesn't keep us from being poets and playwrights and ( Read more... )

As of today,  trying other churches to see what other options are out there, and at least to start, I'm running with mainline churches.

My friend Shea maintains that most mainline churches stopped selling fire insurance between 50 and 20 years ago, and are dealing with losing cultural cache and only having members who actually want to build the ( Read more... )

As we take on more of the character of Christ, by necessity we will realize, relationally, how much of our existence is inherently sinful on a collective, national, or global level. At some level, this is unavoidable ( Read more... )

I follow a number of theologians and their books, because the things that they write give a wider, deeper expression to the world as I see it, and my ability to talk about God in more meaningful and fundamental ways to the people I deal with, especially those who perhaps don't have my background on content, who need different language or ways of ( Read more... )

So, the performance this morning was really impressive. Obviously, people had put in many hours of practice, effort, and creativity. The effect with the lowered curtain and shadow play were particularly striking.

But the focus of the presentation was that Christ defeated death...that the real problem Christ came to solve was that we wouldn't live ( Read more... )

Can you choose to not feel some things, but feel others? It seems like you can either feel everything, or feel nothing. If there's a trick to only feeling some things, but feeling the rest, I haven't found it ( Read more... )

In the last several days, there have been two laws signed into effect in Indiana and in Arkansas that allow businesses to discriminate against Homosexuals for religious reasons ( Read more... )

http://blog.simplejustice.us/2009/08/06/everyone-is-not-entitled-to-an-opinion/

http://homepages.wmich.edu/~ljohnson/Payne.pdf