We think by operating as a dysfunctional, sick, non-trusting organization, we can turn The United Methodist Church into a functional, life-giving place of hope. Delegates, lacking trust in one another, will make vital decisions on little sleep and a diet of caffeine and sugar. Then we’ll wonder why things went so badly. “Eight hundred and sixty-four people will sit on the committee.” When I told my husband, an experienced business owner and currently board chair for two public companies, about the… Read more
November 4, 2018
Definition of A Dysfunctional Organization: The United Methodist Church
November 4, 2018 By Christy Thomas
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October 31, 2018
After Pittsburgh, I Can No Longer Wear A Cross
October 31, 2018 By Christy Thomas
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No longer will I wear the cross. I will stop identifying with this kind of Christianity. It’s one small step to saying to these dear Jewish people, “I am so sorry. My tears are mingling with yours. This is wrong.” My husband gave me this lovely cross a couple of years ago. It’s one of many beautiful ones I own and have worn over the years. But I can no longer wear any of them. I can no longer identify… Read more
October 24, 2018
Vote Blue: I Chose That Even Against My Self-Interest
October 24, 2018 By Christy Thomas
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I am voting Blue for one final reason: I am a person of faith who also knows that a political party that claims God has their back carries so much danger to the larger good that people of real faith must, absolutely must, fight back. Saturday, I went to the polls. For the first time in my life, I voted a straight ticket: Democratic Blue. Economically, my decision hurts me. In our particular business and general financial situation, we are… Read more
October 19, 2018
Greed, Indigenous People, Saudi Arabia, And The Church
October 19, 2018 By Christy Thomas
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The stench of greed permeates every church or religious organization that ventures into the world of politics. Any witness for the Gospel sinks into the cesspool of backstabbing and power grabs. Every single time. In my morning perusal of the New York Times, I found myself drawn to an article I would have usually overlooked, but we are planning on a trip into the Amazon River soon and so am naturally curious about the country. At it turns out, the… Read more
October 17, 2018
The Cover-Up And The Faux Apology
October 17, 2018 By Christy Thomas
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Surely you have heard a faux apology something like this: “I’m sorry if you were offended by [what ever it is that I did that should certainly not have upset you], deflecting all the blame onto someone else? Or perhaps an apology something like this: “I’m sorry you got hurt but if you hadn’t [provoked me, started it, tempted me, not responded the way I wanted you to respond, questioned my authority, etc.], then I would not have had to… Read more
October 8, 2018
Why I Write Now After Choosing Silence Most Of My Life
October 8, 2018 By Christy Thomas
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I write for the thousands of “It happened to me as well, but I knew they’d never believe me” stories that were posted all over social media in the last couple of weeks. Even more, I write for the “It happened to me, I told someone, and they didn’t believe me” stories that broke my heart over and over and over again. I have been writing this blog for over ten years now and many of these posts have appeared… Read more
October 1, 2018
Brett Kavanaugh’s Trashed Life: Who Did The Damage?
October 1, 2018 By Christy Thomas
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So, to get back to Brett Kavanaugh’s trashed life: if it does go down in flames, it is not because the good people of the US want that to happen. It will happen because he refused to answer questions and refuses to acknowledge that he did, at one point in his life, have a severe drinking problem. In the Monday, October 1, 2018 edition of the Wall Street Journal, Alan Dershowitz, a self-described liberal, Democrat, and Professor Emeritus at Harvard Law… Read more
September 24, 2018
What Is Honorable About Your Honor Brett Kavanaugh?
September 24, 2018 By Christy Thomas
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So, I predict that, no, Brett Kavanaugh will not be sacrificed. I predict that women will yet again be slut-shamed, silenced, and slammed against the wall to be left to bleed out, not yet seeing our hopes for justice to prevail. OK, according to those who support The Honorable Judge Brett Kavanaugh, he has had a stellar legal career and his personal life is above reproach. Well, maybe not the last part of that, but still . . . he… Read more
September 17, 2018
Support Sexual Predators! They Are Biblical, After All
September 17, 2018 By Christy Thomas
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So what does the Bible have to do with putting sexual predators in office? Everything. Because men are the leaders, the protectors, the deciders of what is good and what is evil, and the little woman’s job is to stay in her safe”protected” sphere, by definition if a woman is not “protected” SHE is in the wrong place!!!!! See, it’s all her fault!!!!! Bible-believing Christians like sexual predators. Our nation, spurred on by the support of the Bible-believers, elected one… Read more
September 4, 2018
Bible-Believing Christians: Either Socialists Or Liars
September 4, 2018 By Christy Thomas
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What do our Bible-believing Christians do? Fight for policies and elect politicians who seek to remove hope of health care for the vulnerable, that yank food from their mouths, that make housing even more unaffordable, that deny a communal social good of making sure the least among us has adequate and safe shelter, nutritious food, the kind of medical care that leads to health, not just crisis care with its temporary bandage over pus-filled wounds. I read a commentary the other day… Read more
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