This was a post I wrote a few weeks ago in answer to a query on a feminist discussion board from someone who I think honestly wanted to know more about how Christian feminists see their faith playing out in real life. I’m not entirely satisfied with it, but a close friend (Hi Dave!) [...]
Over the weekend, I spent some time with two out-of-town guests and one local friend. The local friend and I have a hilarious history between us of check-grabbing and present giving. It turns out that both of us feel more comfortable when the giving/receiving balance in any given relationship favors, even if only [...]
Being a Christian without a church is lonely. Being a liberal Christian without a church who spends a good deal of time reading liberal/progressive websites is especially lonely.
To be fair, the antics of many prominent fundamentalist Christians are easy to criticize, especially when you don’t share their beliefs. But many liberal atheists/agnostics jump [...]
I alluded below to my desperate need for patience, in virtually every area of my life. One of those is my search for a spiritual home.
My first and only church relationship lasted five years; I have post-traumatically diagnosed that relationship as dysfunctional. My leaving that church feels for all the world like [...]
I spent most of my children’s early years in a perpetual state of panic. Photographs from that time never seem to reflect my feelings of constant anxiety and being under siege.
I remember going through the McDonald’s drive-through with them one day. They were young enough that their Happy Meals still needed “fixing” [...]
but this one is amazing, Mavis Staples’ “I’ll Be Rested,” created by Randy Caspersen.
Randy was kind enough to share with me his list of the litany of names Miss Staples invokes in this song. Below is some information I found online about some of these people; there are a few that haven’t yet yielded [...]
Most of us go to the grave with our music still inside us.
– Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.” — Dalai Lama
No wiggle room? Dang!
Fred Clark gets it right, as usual, when he asks the above question. The whole series is well worth reading, but here’s a teaser from Part 1:
But there’s another theologically perilous cost to this safe-target preaching. The idea that there are “super-sins” worthy of particular opprobrium and the idea that there are “others” subject [...]
