Silencing Dissent
Mind Blown. 😱It's interesting the people I thought were fair minded, I discovered were quite intolerant. And, some of the people I thought were intolerant, turned out to be extremely fair minded. Which was quite pleasant. But, it's the "intolerance" that I find...
Should God’s People Be Conservatives or Liberals?
A member of the small group I was leading left the group, telling me that she could not stay in the group because she felt my Facebook posts were "unchristian." She is a Liberal Democrat and I'm a Conservative sort-of-Libertarian. We saw political issues and school...
Tripping Over Ourselves to Win ‘World’s Dumbest’ Prize
Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO), a United Methodist minister, opened the first session of the 117th Congress on Sunday, January 3rd, by praying in the name of a Hindu god, and ending with a comment on gender identity by saying "Amen, and A-woman." "A-woman?"...
Sadism Disguised As Justice
As a high school freshman, 15-year-old Mimi Groves recited the words to a rap song which includes a racial slur, "I can drive, nO&(@#!" on Snapchat. She had just received her learner's permit and shared the video with a friend. It made the rounds of her school and...
Church Gone ‘Woke’
A former church of mine has gone 'woke' and barely quotes the Bible anymore. For those that say, but being a 'woke church' is good because we need to mindful of those who are oppressed, slurred or marginalized, I say this: these things are addressed quite CLEARLY in...
Live Life.
(Someone else wrote this, but I edited it, fyi.) After losing all of my parents in the past few years before Covid (Shirley-mom, Schmidty-dad, and Dianne-stepmom), I can say with certainty that life is too short! Waaay too short! Years from now, we will look back and...
Did God Really Say That?
This is an awesome quote! "If you ever have someone argue 'Christianity is a white man’s religion.' Bring them to Acts 8. God called Phillip from a place of fruitful ministry to a desert road to share with a man from Ethiopia. History will show that while Europeans...
Gulping Humility
Acts 17:22-23 ...People of Athens! I see that in every way you are very religious. For as I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: to an unknown god. So you are ignorant of the very thing you...
There is Evil in This World, But We Can Fight It
Recognizing Evil There is evil and darkness in our modern world, and even today people worship Molek. We don't want to see it, as we're lulled with food and drink, and Netflix and Amazon. We're busied with work and Covid protocols, and online church, and Zoom. We're...
The Social Extraction
In June, at the end of the school year, I’m permanently deleting my Facebook account. They are not a social media site, they are a media manipulation site. [UPDATE: I left Facebook in January 2021 because of the vitriol. I just couldn't wait until June.] I've already...