October 6, 2009 – 11:33 pm
How do you alienate Christians and make a mockery of conservatives in a single act? Undertake a new Bible translation! The Conservative Bible will allow you to read the Bible without those annoying liberal verses such as these:
John 7:53-8:11 We all know Jesus wouldn’t have stopped a good stoning. You’d think he actually had some [...]
November 10, 2008 – 1:36 am
So Much Straw recently addressed one of my deepest fears as a homeschooling parent, and one I have heard echoed in many conversations with other homeschoolers.
What if it doesn’t work?
We all want what is best for our children. We’ve made the sacrifice to educate them at home. Others make the financial sacrifice to send their [...]
October 23, 2008 – 2:03 am
I may be treading into waters here that are better left untouched, but this sort of teaching had a profound effect on me shortly after my conversion to Christianity, and drove me into a sort of spiritual dormancy less than six months after my awakening. Ironically, it was an atheist homosexual that re-awakened me, but [...]
April 24, 2008 – 12:35 am
Christine, aka The Thinking Mother made a good point on my post looking at how our virtual lives affect our personal lives.
Discussing the affect on children and teens doing role playing games or regular video games is very different than discussing adults who were socialized before the big video game craze and before the Internet [...]
Strong words from Tony Jones, author of The New Christians: Dispatches from the Emergent Frontier. I don’t want to get into the emergent church debate. I don’t know that much about it, but if his current “dispatch” has anything to do with the emergent church, I think I’ll steer clear of it. [...]
March 23, 2008 – 12:59 am
This week has been a rough week. Last Friday, my daughter filled a toilet with blood and since then my heart has been heavy with worry. A week later, I sat in the emergency room watching the doctors take her blood again after several bouts of bleeding and dizziness possibly associated with blood [...]
February 12, 2008 – 5:11 am
Two years ago, a two year old boy in our church was taken to the hospital for a stomach virus. His family was expecting the staff to hydrate him, watch him for a day or two and send him home. They did not expect the tumultuous nightmare that would become their normal over [...]
January 6, 2008 – 10:46 am
A Woman on Purpose has an interesting post up on Truth and Consequences that caught my attention, although my own thoughts run in the opposite direction.
One of the fundamentals of the Christian faith is personal liberty. Most folks don’t understand that, because they have a mental picture of Christianity as being about arbitrary and stringent rules.
I [...]