Three centuries ago, back when Europe was called Christendom and everyone figured they were Christian (however syncretistic or nominal), something started shifting. It’s a shift that got us to the place we are today, where belief is an option, and not a very easy one at that.
The shift? Life got practical.
I’ve been reading a huge [...]
Rejection sucks. I don’t care if you’re Moses, the so-called humblest person who ever lived. Nobody likes finding out that all the sweat and tears you poured into creating something beautiful or being somebody worthwhile just aren’t what the world wants.
A friend of mine worked hard for months and months to create a piece of [...]
A former guest blogger Kelli Trujillo just wrote this thought provoking column about why she raises her kids with God. Here’s the opening:
TXBlue08, a Texas mom of two, recently set the internet buzzing with her article, “Why I Raise My Children Without God.” Read by more than 750,000 people so far, thousands are enthusiastically [...]
They understand oppression and repression and explosion but they remain a culture of faith–faith that creeks and groans and pulls, but is alive and never dull. And which urges them to art, to poetry, to sing–these, too, are forms of action. Of passion. Of conviction. Yes, of love.
This is Carolyn Weber’s description of Gaelic poetry, [...]
I recently read that Cynics, in the original sense, were sometimes confused with Christians. Originally the term “Cynic” referred to a sect of Greeks that emerged around the first or second century B.C. at a time of political upheaval and collapse.*
I always find Cynicism a little tempting around election times. You look at the stories [...]
Yesterday I learned of two separate friends who are dealing with children with serious health problems and/or disabilities.
Heavy stuff. I don’t think anyone asks to have a kid with a disability. Ok, I take that back, there are saintly people who adopt children with disabilities knowing what they’re doing, and they deserve medals of honor [...]
Ah, Easter. I cracked more eggs this week than I think I ever have in my life. I baked up a sausage and egg dish and some baked french toast for a family gathering, plus the dyed eggs we’ve been eating for days now. We added every single leaf to our dining room table for [...]
So I want to share the totally wonderful thing that happened to us today. It’s a long story, but so nice.
When we moved into our house there was a cat that lived sort of outside and sort of in the barn next door to us, and it had become Phoebe’s most beloved thing in the [...]
God is seldom early and never late. – anonymous
Enjoy and share! Every Monday there’s a new quote. Here’s the story of why.
Odds are, you know someone whose life feels like this — someone jobless, stuck in a meaningless, dull job, trying to have children, hoping for a spouse, waiting for whatever crucial piece of the puzzle would allow them to move on.
