It is with great pleasure that I announce a new blog from and old Internet friend.
I've been aware of KR Wordgazer, or Kristen for some time. Some of my regulars here may know her as one of the No Longer Quivering FAQs ladies.
She's a Christian that has long been aware of spiritual abuse through her own experience and has applied herself to dealing with the Patriarchy and Quiverfull heresies with answers from the Bible.
http://krwordgazer.blogspot.com/
Also, I've gone ahead and added KR's blog to my blogroll and moved the blogroll up because those blogs are more active now than I am and I don't want anyone checking in here to miss the opportunity to see what else is going on in those blogs.
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Monday, September 26, 2011
Something Completely Different
Well, sort of completely different.
It's no secret here that I have an appreciation for fiction and in particular, speculative fiction. I've mentioned Star Trek here more than once and did a series on Apollonian and Dionysian and the affects of stories and especially Single Stories have on us.
Well, I follow a number of blogs, more than what I have listed on the side here. I follow a fictional blog in the genre of speculative fiction that also happens to be Christian. Now don't freak. It is NOT of the CBMW or Patriarchy variety. I have no stomach for fiction from those crowds.
No this is a far more mainstream Christian Spec. Fiction blog that includes Catholics and Mainstream Protestants. It is called Avenir Eclectia. Don't ask me how to pronounce it.
Mostly I have just followed it on my own, not mentioning it here because I saw little connection between it and what we talk about here.
However today's fictional post is on a topic a little nearer to what we talk about than usual so I thought I share it. Cultic misprophecies.
The lovely thing about Spec. Fiction is how it lends itself to exploring and resolving the issues we deal with today and even reoccurring issues that come up from time to time in Christian Circles.
So please, if you have time, take a peek at this piece by Walt Staples, "Stony's World: Apocalypse Preempted".
http://avenireclectia.com/2011/09/stonys-world-apocalypse-preempted.html
It's no secret here that I have an appreciation for fiction and in particular, speculative fiction. I've mentioned Star Trek here more than once and did a series on Apollonian and Dionysian and the affects of stories and especially Single Stories have on us.
Well, I follow a number of blogs, more than what I have listed on the side here. I follow a fictional blog in the genre of speculative fiction that also happens to be Christian. Now don't freak. It is NOT of the CBMW or Patriarchy variety. I have no stomach for fiction from those crowds.
No this is a far more mainstream Christian Spec. Fiction blog that includes Catholics and Mainstream Protestants. It is called Avenir Eclectia. Don't ask me how to pronounce it.
Mostly I have just followed it on my own, not mentioning it here because I saw little connection between it and what we talk about here.
However today's fictional post is on a topic a little nearer to what we talk about than usual so I thought I share it. Cultic misprophecies.
The lovely thing about Spec. Fiction is how it lends itself to exploring and resolving the issues we deal with today and even reoccurring issues that come up from time to time in Christian Circles.
So please, if you have time, take a peek at this piece by Walt Staples, "Stony's World: Apocalypse Preempted".
http://avenireclectia.com/2011/09/stonys-world-apocalypse-preempted.html
Friday, September 16, 2011
Yep, Been Busy
I still check in to look at my blog roll to see what other people are talking about, but I have little time to create any posts myself.
So, as entertainment for those who still check in here from time to time, I thought I'd share a youtube video that I feel helps us remember what is important to God. If you don't love children, don't bother with this one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6jruXPSakI
So, as entertainment for those who still check in here from time to time, I thought I'd share a youtube video that I feel helps us remember what is important to God. If you don't love children, don't bother with this one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6jruXPSakI
Sunday, September 11, 2011
The Cold War and 911
Relating my experience on 911 ten years ago over on Elizabeth Esther's blog has opened some deep places.
My children were young, home school age, boys: 12 and 11, and girls: 8, and 4.
My boys' friends came over and talked about joining the military. They were afraid that the terrorists would bomb our small town, population 2700, located over an hour away from anything that could be considered even a small city. I assured them that the terrorists were not interested in little ol' pop2700 us. That we were most likely safe.
But that moment got me thinking of when I was their age. Back then there was a different kind of war going on. It was "The Cold War". It is hard to explain to anyone who is too young to remember. Movies that could help to understand would be "The Iron Giant" and "War Games".
Back when I was in school, we were taught that the U.S. had nukes and the Soviets had nukes and that, whoever started a nuclear war, it didn't matter, we would all die, either immediately or later from radiation sickness or lack of food and water or some other complication. And it was put forth, or implied, or somehow I picked up that a nuclear strike could happen any minute. It could happen while I was at school or sleeping in my bed or playing with friends. It was something that always hung over my head.
911 was a terrorist attack that happened during a time of assumed peace. There was never a strike during that time of restrained hostility between two world powers, or The Cold War.
I would imagine that the children and young adults of 911 were traumatized worse than the children of The Cold War. 911 trauma was powerful and immediate. But those of us who grew up during The Cold War, some of us were also traumatized over the long term. And I don't know about the others, but I felt alone in my fears. I went to bed every night wondering if that was night that we would all be incinerated in our beds. 911 was a collective, nationally, even internationally shared trauma.
At the bottom of a lot of our fears is the fear of death, for ourselves, for our loved ones. The death of one person in our lives or facing death ourselves is a traumatic thing. 911 and The Cold War magnify this fear. The fear of death is a fear that covers people. It was this fear that lead me to the only Being who cold defeat death, our mortal enemy. And those of us who know Him take comfort in His power over death. We hold on to the One who defeated death. Hanging onto Him gets us through these things like 911.
Isaiah 25:7 And on this M0untain He will swallow up the covering which is over all peoples, even the veil which is stretched over all nations. Vs 8a He will swallow up death for all time, and the Lord GOD will wipe tears away from all faces,
My children were young, home school age, boys: 12 and 11, and girls: 8, and 4.
My boys' friends came over and talked about joining the military. They were afraid that the terrorists would bomb our small town, population 2700, located over an hour away from anything that could be considered even a small city. I assured them that the terrorists were not interested in little ol' pop2700 us. That we were most likely safe.
But that moment got me thinking of when I was their age. Back then there was a different kind of war going on. It was "The Cold War". It is hard to explain to anyone who is too young to remember. Movies that could help to understand would be "The Iron Giant" and "War Games".
Back when I was in school, we were taught that the U.S. had nukes and the Soviets had nukes and that, whoever started a nuclear war, it didn't matter, we would all die, either immediately or later from radiation sickness or lack of food and water or some other complication. And it was put forth, or implied, or somehow I picked up that a nuclear strike could happen any minute. It could happen while I was at school or sleeping in my bed or playing with friends. It was something that always hung over my head.
911 was a terrorist attack that happened during a time of assumed peace. There was never a strike during that time of restrained hostility between two world powers, or The Cold War.
I would imagine that the children and young adults of 911 were traumatized worse than the children of The Cold War. 911 trauma was powerful and immediate. But those of us who grew up during The Cold War, some of us were also traumatized over the long term. And I don't know about the others, but I felt alone in my fears. I went to bed every night wondering if that was night that we would all be incinerated in our beds. 911 was a collective, nationally, even internationally shared trauma.
At the bottom of a lot of our fears is the fear of death, for ourselves, for our loved ones. The death of one person in our lives or facing death ourselves is a traumatic thing. 911 and The Cold War magnify this fear. The fear of death is a fear that covers people. It was this fear that lead me to the only Being who cold defeat death, our mortal enemy. And those of us who know Him take comfort in His power over death. We hold on to the One who defeated death. Hanging onto Him gets us through these things like 911.
Isaiah 25:7 And on this M0untain He will swallow up the covering which is over all peoples, even the veil which is stretched over all nations. Vs 8a He will swallow up death for all time, and the Lord GOD will wipe tears away from all faces,
Saturday, September 10, 2011
911
Elizabeth Esther asked people to relate their memories of 911. So I did. I don't have the strength to do so again. So if you are curious, head on over there and read her memories, my memories, other people's memories and add your own if you feel so inclined. I think I'm comment number 10, or something like that.
http://www.elizabethesther.com/2011/09/where-were-you-on-911.html
http://www.elizabethesther.com/2011/09/where-were-you-on-911.html
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