Last time we hung out, I touched briefly on why I don’t feel that accommodation is the way to go regarding Christian overreach into the public sphere. I want to expand on that some more. Right now America is going through a really tough time with the Republican Party falsely Read more
Last time we hung out, I touched briefly on why I don’t feel that accommodation is the way to go regarding Christian overreach into the public sphere. I want to expand on that some more. Right now America is going through a really tough time with the Republican Party falsely Read more
Hey, fellow DisbeRollers–just a heads-up. I couldn’t help but notice that WordPress said that last post was the 102nd. Somehow I missed our big 100! I’m terrible with dates and milestones. I spent most of 1998 absolutely convinced it was 1995. I’m not kidding. And no, no drugs/booze were involved Read more
Liberal. Conservative. Trinitarian. Jesus-Name. Man. Woman. Gay. Straight. Christian. Marcionite. Atheist. Deist. Pantheist. Agnostic. Pagan. Neo-Pagan. Traditionalist Pagan. Reconstructionist Pagan. Eclectic Pagan. It seems like our entire lives are just made up of labels and defining ourselves with carefully-chosen words, doesn’t it? Just dizzying. When I was a Christian, I Read more
When I was sixteen, I found myself in a Pentecostal church next to my friend Angela, dressed in exactly that sort of unflattering puffy shirt and flowing skirt combo (in purple, of course) that the 80s valued most. Like every one of my friends, I was going through a Molly Read more
The Sims 3 (TS3) is dying. Long live the Sims! If you play simulation games, you likely know that the Sims 4 is coming out in a few all-too-short months, so the Sims 3 is starting to wind down. The last “Stuff Pack,” Movie Stuff, came out this month; the Read more
You’d think that the proselytization process for a “god of love” and a “prince of peace” would involve, I don’t know, sharing good news about his easy yoke and light burden or something. Maybe sumpin-sumpin about all the miracles his people think he’s done. Well, you’d be surprised. At the Read more
I keep up with Christian news, obviously. I’d be foolish not to do so, considering the religion’s excessive overreach into my country’s (MURKKKA!) politics and culture. Most of the Christian blogosphere is depressingly cruel, arrogant, controlling, condemning, and privilege-enforcing. But not all of it is so dank and dark. If Read more
I keep up with Christian news, obviously. I’d be foolish not to do so, considering the religion’s excessive overreach into my country’s (MURKKKA!) politics and culture. Most of the Christian blogosphere is depressingly cruel, arrogant, controlling, condemning, and privilege-enforcing. But not all of it is so dank and dark. If Read more
Do y’all remember that anecdote I told you about Marf and Bebo and the van? There was a special reason why Marf was so happy that night of the revival. You see, she had been delivered of a demon of depression, and was finally happy again. Well, for a little Read more