Dangerous Thinking

August 3, 2011 Angie 3 Comments

Recent travel has afforded me quite an extensive opportunity to listen to some audio books. At the top of my list has been the works of Bart Ehrman, evangelical Biblical scholar turned agnostic. While listening my way through his book, God’s Problem, Ehrman told a story of a Cambodian refugee family with whom he became acquainted. …

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An Ethical Dilema

July 25, 2011 Angie 6 Comments

This morning I applied for a teaching job. There is nothing about that act that should be out of the ordinary, stressful, or otherwise challenging to my psyche. The job is for a position with my college alma mater and it is something I have dreamed of many times. I have the fondest of memories …

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A Trip with a Mission

July 9, 2011 Angie 5 Comments

My oldest hopped aboard a plane to Honduras this morning. She is with a group of very nice people, most of whom claim the label “Christian”. One might tend to think I would be opposed to sending my kid off with a group like this on a “mission trip”, and in most instances, I would …

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Hypocracy

June 13, 2011 Angie 6 Comments

Apparently today was a good day to blog about hypocracy. Seems half the people I follow had some element of hypocracy as their theme.  A couple that stood out to me included Trey Morgan’s post You Might Be a Hypocrite If… and Jessica Ahlquist’s post A Crown of Thorns with Jelly. Trey, a minister,  takes …

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Dr. Death

June 3, 2011 Angie 5 Comments

I just noticed a headline that indicated Jack Kevorkian, the infamous Dr. Death of assisted suicide notoriety, has passed into whatever lies beyond the back side of his own eyelids. I couldn’t help but ponder a few questions, because….well….his “mission” is such a question gold mine for those of us who like to rock the …

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Stereotyping

May 18, 2011 Angie 4 Comments

Let’s play a word association game, okay? I’ll say a word, you notice what descriptors come to mind immediately. No looking them up…just knee jerk reaction to each word. No cheating. Muslim Hindu Buddhist Atheist Wiccan Shaman Christian Got your descriptors for each figured out?  Are you sure? Don’t go on until you have acknowledged …

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God is So Good…Really???

May 9, 2011 Angie 10 Comments

Just a few short thoughts today. My apologies in advance for the likelihood of a sarcastic tone. I’ve been watching updates this past week regarding an acquaintance who was attacked by a nasty infection which traveled through his body and landed in a bony area completely eating through part of the bone. He was ripped …

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Vengeance via Weather is Mine, Saith the Lord

April 28, 2011 Angie 6 Comments

Raise your hand if you know someone who ever suggested or even truly believes Hurricane Katrina was God’s punishment for all the evil contained in New Orleans. Mine’s raised. I know people who believe it. Oh, and that Sodom and Gomorrah thing….that was a direct action of the Big Guy, too, wasn’t it? <insert dripping …

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What Would Jesus Say?

April 8, 2011 Angie 2 Comments

Yesterday I posted the following video on my Facebook page: My comment that accompanied this video said simply, “Good message. Worth the watch, even if your stance is “worth the wait”.” Worth the Wait is a curriculum us Bible Belters use to terrorize our children into keeping their venereal diseases and their penises to themselves …

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The Making of a Deity

March 31, 2011 Angie 4 Comments

If you’ve been following Catholic news in recent months, you may be aware that Pope John Paul II is on the fast track to beatification and eventual sainthood. The current pontiff has set a date to give his official validation of the necessary miracle required to point the deceased church leader in the direction of …

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