MERRY CHRISTMAS! A deep and heartfelt thanks my cyber-friends, who in this past year have done so much to make me feel so good about what I do every day. Your encouragement, love, laughter, goodwill and General Excellence have done a great deal to buttress my spirits during I’m afraid proved for me a difficult year. God bless you, every one. Speaking of blessings. If you feel you’ve got even one iota of blessing to spare, I’d like you to... Read more
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Here are three things I most remember about my childhood Christmaseses (Christmasi?): My dad always put an orange inside the bottom of our stockings. I never knew why. A reminder to eat right? Filler to buff out the stockings? That made the most sense—but why an orange? Why not balled-up newspaper, Styrofoam, or an actual sock? Why fruit? My dad had a tattoo of a butterfly on the top of his right foot. Perhaps he was encouraging my sister and... Read more
What might Christians learn from atheists? Read more
It’s certainly no challenge for a rationalist/atheist to dismiss out of hand those who believe in God. The Christian, scoffs the rationalist, is weak-willed: superstitious, deaf to logic, incapable of independent thought, intellectually and even morally lazy. Okay. We believers can take that sort of criticism. We can (or certainly should) even acknowledge the ways in which we too often facilitate non-believers reaching such conclusions about us. But, to be fair, rationalists and atheists should consider the validity of the... Read more
1. If while talking I was ever forced to sit on my hands, it’s a certainty that within one minute I’d dislocate at least one of my shoulders. 2. I think Judy Garland is the greatest female singer in the history of women breaking the heart of the universe with the raw emotionalism and stunning animal prowess of their voice. 3. I am pro-interior decorating. “Want a New Life? Rearrange Your Furniture.” That’s my motto. 4. The only televised sport... Read more
So I’m sitting here this morning, idly munching my toast with peanut butter and banana (mmmm …. delicious toast with peanut butter and banana … ), when up popped a little message off my Facebook page. It said, “Zaneta M. Delgadillo just answered the question ‘Do you think John Shore is straight?’ [What Did Zaneta Say].” That last part was a link. My first thought, of course (after, “Why is there no question mark after ‘Say’?”—but that’s really just a punctuation... Read more
Okay, enough with the loosening up. (Um … that will make no sense if you haven’ read my last two posts, Pastors and Other Christian Leaders: Loosen Up, Before It’s Too Late! and Let Your Christian Leader LoosenUp–Before It’s Too Late! And even then.) After all, we don’t want everybody slipping and sliding out of their pews like so many sacks of glop. What we’re supposed to do in church is sit up straight, and listen. Just like we were supposed to do... Read more
In Pastors and Other Christian Leaders: Loosen Up, Before It’s Too Late!, I talked about the obnoxiousness of using exclamation points in titles. Wait. No I didn’t. I talked about the advisability of Christian leaders loosening up and being themselves. And a good point that is! But, like the final arrow in the quiver of ticked-off Tonto, there’s another point to be grasped here: It’s also vital that we believers let our Christian leaders loosen up and be themselves. To... Read more
I hate criticizing people. Actually, I like criticizing people, but over the years have found that it tends to move whomever I’m criticizing to criticize me back, which is much less fun. The best solution I’ve found is to talk about people behind their backs. I think that’s really a win-win for all. But now I must speak out directly! I must! Not doing so will make my eyeballs hurt! And then I’ll have to put iodine in them! And... Read more
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