Category Archives: christianity
Quaker Quaker
This post is actually not about Quaker Quaker, but about the idea of a Quaker Quaker, which was explained a bit here: If we became a religious society of Finders, then we’d need to figure out what it means to … Continue reading
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Crossroads
*cue Bone Thugs-n-Harmony music* I’ve discerned that I need to take a break from religious reading for awhile. I don’t think I’ve learned all that I can from religious books; but I have some questions that I need to answer … Continue reading
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Hope
I had a wonderful conversation with my mother-in-law on Friday, as she was driving me to my post-op appointment. Some background is necessary to appreciate how wonderful this conversation was for me: my mother-in-law is a fundamentalist, Evangelical Christian who … Continue reading
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Light
As I went to raise the shades this morning, my eyes burned from the light that seeped through. Knowing that the light would not burn when the shade was raised, I raised it. This seems to me an apt metaphor … Continue reading
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Thoughts about Christianity
Rob and I attended an Episcopal church service this morning, as we attend church together on Easter and Christmas and I couldn’t convince him to go to Meeting with me. (He finds it boring and gets nothing out of it.) … Continue reading
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“Resurrection: A Holy Saturday Musing”
Bunches of snow like little White flower buds on bushes as My soul gazes out in wonder at this World He has created – The bunches of snow like the Promise of Resurrection. Today, there. Tomorrow, Gone… but not lost.
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The Danger of Christian Fiction (and what reading it taught me)
As our first book exchange, Rob’s sister gave me Lori Wick’s “Pretense” and I gave her Michael J. Arlen’s “Passage to Ararat”. While I was sick last week (I’m still sick, but feeling coherent enough to write today… though by … Continue reading
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Transformation
I had an extraordinary Meeting for Worship today. I started my day rereading Martin Kelly‘s “The World Is Hungry for What We’ve Tasted” article from Friends Journal, October 2006. It stayed in the back of my mind throughout the beginning … Continue reading
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Paul
I’ve just finished reading Lattimore’s translation of Paul First Letter to the Corinthians. I have a real problem with Paul, in that I really don’t know what to make of him. At times, he says things that make me want … Continue reading
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Loving Our Enemies
People have argued for thousands of years about what the defining characteristic of man is. “Man is a social animal,” said one. “No, man is a political animal,” said another. “No, man is a possessive animal,” said one. “Not so,” … Continue reading
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