Apparently God has been too busy answering court complaints to help me sell my house.
This fact came up at my house last week with a group of friends. I explained that I had even bought St. Joseph from the Catholic Supply Store (yes, my mom knows), buried him in the front yard and said the [...]
I just found out that my priest’s cellphone ring tone is the intro to "Hell’s Bells." How can you not go to a church where the priest listens to AC/DC?
Apparently, I’m all about the links today. But there’s some good stuff floating around right now.
I am especially drawn to this op-ed piece on CNN about religion and politics, something that I felt compelled to talk about earlier in the week. It’s a thoughtful piece about embracing the larger issues in religion rather than [...]
Some of the criticism that gets sent my way focuses on the fact that I must be God-less because of my politics. That always kind of intrigues me that people think that since I consider myself a fairly religious person. I’m not sure how we got to the point in this country that we believe [...]
Both girls took communion today (note for my fellow Southerners: in the Episcopal church, any baptized Christian, no matter what age, can take communion). Sometimes they don’t want to, so I always give them the option. Today is the first day that both opted to take it.
As the Father walked by, he says, "The Body [...]
I’ve started taking the kids to church. Not, no so much to "get them" some religion but because I didn’t have a good excuse for why we weren’t going. Gosh, that didn’t come out right…
This is the thing. I have, over the years, fallen away from church, largely driven by the intolerance and overabundance of [...]
Another rare religious post from me. Read on.
This makes me furious. A female Sunday School teacher was dismissed after 54 years of service because… she was a woman. Yeah, you read that right. 54 years of service means nothing to Rev. Timothy LaBouf (who also serves on City Council in the [...]
Hmm, a serious theological post from me. What is the world coming to?
But I have something that I need to get off my chest. It’s about prayer.
I believe in God. I think that’s an important context for my post. I was raised Southern Baptist. I resigned from the Southern Baptist [...]
The recent “honor” killings in Pakistan horrify me.
As a mother, I cannot imagine witnessing the slayings of my girls by my own husband for any reason - including some warped view of honor. And I understand, from reading the article, that apparently the mother was scared of being killed herself. And this I [...]
