Christianity

A Christian rebuttal to James Dobson’s July 2019 Newsletter

Dr. James Dobson is a leader in the Christian Conservative movement. He recently wrote a newsletter about a recent trip he took to the border where he toured a facility where refugees and immigrants are kept. He gives the whole…

WAITING ON THE CHURCH

“Hey, hey, I want you to have this. Don’t show anybody now.” A few weeks ago, an…

Who Wrote Paul’s Letters in the New Testament?

“I, Paul, write this greeting with my own hand, which is how I write in every…

Yoked!

don’t you just love it when verses are taken out of context?
me too….not.
it’s been a while since i’ve blogged about scripture.
mainly because…

Finding God in Pride

A story of acceptance

Quotes That Will Make Your Head Spin In The Right Direction

Let us take a RIGHT turn with these quotes.

Awe Will Make You a Better Person

The world doesn’t need more experts or leaders or gurus, the world…

Remaining a Virgin in Today’s Hook-Up Culture (A Theocratic Essay)

Do You Want a Hedge of Protection Over Your life?

Look no further for the truth

Changing the World is Simple, But it Isn’t Easy

Making a Difference By Modeling Your Life After Marram Grass

Happily doing what God created you to do…

Caramel & Vanilla Flavored Musings: Psalm 42 & Growth in Grace

I’ve really been drawn to a couple of things lately: caramel and vanilla flavored food & scents, and then podcasts. We’ll talk about popcorn, pastries and candles another day, I just wanted to say it out loud :) Podcasts —…

Where Is The Good In Good-bye?

If it keeps hurting, have I ever really meant it?

I Aim The Crown

A poem

Life is an occurrence defined on lost pages.
Decades turn centuries
centuries are the records…

AN UNEXPECTED REVELATION

The political Pharisees have revealed something very important to us in showing us how deeply they lack decency, kindness or reason. Some of us have known this all along, including (if I may say so) myself, but till now, how many were listening? I knew this ever since I was one of the…

My Second Challenge: Order of Sacraments

So my son is to finally be baptized on the 28th of July in the Latin Church, but this is the only Sacrament he is to receive in the Latin Church at this time. This is to follow the traditions of the Latin Church that we currently reside. However, if my son…

Finding Love and God in “Mission Hollywood” by Michelle Keener

Our Great Republic

Wonder at the stars

Dream of more

THOUGHTS & SHARINGS ON NONVIOLENCE

This time I’ve quite a bit to share and to ask. Allow me to begin by sharing two articles from Daily Kos which I think can have some significant bearing on the issues discussed here:
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 What looks to me like a…

The Beginning

A Tale Through Time

Christianity may truly be different at it’s core, but the world rarely sees that core. We pay lip service to the idea of partaking of God’s nature but book after book and message focus on behavior management instead of a transformational encounter with the living God. An obsession with controlling human sexuality has caused the word sin to become…

Areas of Attack

Exodus 18:8 (KJV)
And Moses told his father in law all that the LORD had done unto Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel’s sake…

Daily Devotion — God Has Your Back

In a desert land He found him, in a barren and howling waste. He shielded him and cared for him; He guarded him as the apple of His eye Deuteronomy 32:10 NIV

I don’t know what you are facing right now. Maybe you are in a position where the…

When The Truth Dawned

I was born and brought up in Islam till my teenage years where my life took a different turn. As a Muslim, I attended ‘madrasa’ since I was three years generally my life was good and ‘normal’ until my second year in high school, when this strange voice from nowhere started telling me to be…

Speaking Life, Doubting, and Believing

How many times have you been sitting in your home, or a place of thought and you had a…

How to Face a Disaster

By Zaina Starr