Category Archives: christians
The Return
It’s funny: I’ve had this blog title floating around in my head for months now. I thought the title was going to be referring to my return to Meeting for Worship after my hip surgery. It’s not, though: it’s about … Continue reading
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A New Perspective on Jesus
I’ve been thinking about Jesus for a long time. I was raised Roman Catholic and grew up with a deep faith in God. But I was never sure about Jesus. For a while, I believed in the Trinity. I remember … Continue reading
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Liberal Quaker Concerns
Today after Meeting for Worship, we had an instructor come in to teach my Yearly Meeting’s Quakerism 101 course. During Meeting for Worship, he gave a message that I found very disturbing. The beginning of his message was how Quakers … 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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Loving That of God in Everyone
On Monday, I finished reading Pema Chodron’s book “No Time to Lose” (which is, ironically, over 300 pages long). In it was an anecdote about the Dalai Lama finding out about the death of Mao Tse Tung. He was in … 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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Security
I’ve been struggling for a while with the idea of people needing God: needing Him as some sort of security blanket, needing Him to save them from hell, needing to know He’s there and has a plan for them. In … Continue reading
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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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To Pray Without Ceasing
I went into the weekend unsure of what God was calling me to do. I knew that my leading was to spend a weekend with Rob’s sister (who I’ll refer to as C from now on) and her husband (D), … Continue reading
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