We made it to Friday! Rejoicing abounds. I have so many many things to do this weekend so as not to be counted as a total failure in the eyes of all mankind. Every few minutes my two little girls ask if it is Christmas. Like in the intervening three minutes since they last asked, maybe seven days passed quickly by and Santa came. Every time I say, “NO”. Then they ask, “When is tomorrow?” Age six is supposed to... Read more
Well, I did manage to make some people angry yesterday, by suggesting that Islam and Christianity are not the same. My deleted comments box is fairly stuffed and my wonderment over the Christian landscape is ever more increasing. So I did want to blog about something charming and non-controversial, namely what is the nature of work, but I’m going to shelve that till tomorrow because I want to re-articulate something basic about Christianity, something that seems to contribute to confusion... Read more
So Wheaton has responded to one of their tenured professor’s explanation of why she is wearing a hijab in Advent by putting her on administrative leave, after several days of social media outcry. I wasn’t really paying attention but there’s nothing else super fun to talk about this morning. I could go on for a while about how I helped in a small way to clean my own house, or about the failure of my pho this time around, or... Read more
Caitlyn Jenner, that beacon of femininity and gorgeous lips, apologized just now (that is, I am seeing it for the first time this morning) for saying some things that offended various elements of the transgender community. I won’t lie. I have a small, close knit online community myself (not that those are the same thing) and we very much enjoyed the idea that the hardest part of being a woman is figuring out what to wear. If you’ve decided to... Read more
As I was mulling over and feeling sad about David’s sin, this weekend, but then feeling hopeful about, you know, the incarnation, I kept banging in to the incredible news that a gentleman (to use an overly high word) in England has self identified not only as female, but also as a little girl. He doesn’t feel like he’s 50, he feels like he’s 6, and so there we are. He gets to live with a middle aged couple and... Read more
David’s adultery with Bathsheba wasn’t the only sin of his long career. That sin reached out long fingers of consequence all over his family and the life of Israel, culminating in the rebellion and death of Absolam. Another sin, though, is just as difficult to look at, to swallow down as you trudge through the text. Somewhere a long the way, whether out of pride or insecurity, David takes it upon himself to number the people, particularly those who could... Read more
Christmas Links, because, really, you can’t possibly be done with your shopping, and if you are, I don’t want to hear about it, really I don’t, please don’t stare at me like that, seriously stop it, I will totally be done shopping soon, and get a tree, oh my word, I’m gonna die. I am greatly remiss in that I wanted, like three weeks ago, to plug my friend Kyra’s shop in time for Christmas. She makes lovely jewelry and... Read more
I was about to launch into another portion of RHE’s introduction this morning, but became distracted by this basically good, and I think pertinent, article in Huffpo this morning. It all ties in, in my own mind anyway, so I don’t feel as if I am wandering away to another subject. The article asks a series of pretty good questions about why it’s such a hard thing for women to leave the work place, especially when they are upwardly mobile,... Read more
So I came into the way of having a copy of Rachel Held Evans A Year of Biblical Womanhood, and I’ve been reading it very slowly, here and there, interrupted constantly by my regular life, putting it down often to pick up other books I’ve either promised to read, or thought looked interesting. At the rate I’m going, I won’t be done with it until the middle of next year. Somehow, in my own mind, I wasn’t going to say... Read more
If a person doesn’t feel like writing about Trump, or thinking about him first thing in the morning, is there any recourse? What’s a blogger to do? Seems like there’s some sort of unwritten law, hovering just above in the clouds, like some kind of force, a force awakening, that requires a total Internet freak out about Trump or else. If a blogger wakes up in the morning and wants to think or write about something else, the force quietly... Read more
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