Sometime before I went to Hawaii, Hector asked me to take a look at, and share thoughts on, four posts at his blog. Today I’ll look just at one of them (I’m not sure whether I’ll eventually get to all four, but I may).
“If Thine Eye Offend Thee”: Reflections on this week’s reading, continued. [...]
Archive for the ‘Gods’ Category
Hell
Posted in Gods, Lynn Gazis-Sax on November 6, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Quiverfull carnival
Posted in Family, Gods, Lifestyle, Man, Sigaliris, Woman, tagged Christian Right, die patriarchy die, quiverfull, war on women on November 4, 2009 | 9 Comments »
They’re having a blog carnival over at “No Longer Qivering,” a blog started by one of the women profiled in Kathryn Joyce’s book, “Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement.” “Qivering” is deliberately spelled without a u, because as Vyckie the blogger says, “there is no ‘you’ in Qivering.” The blog holds many great stories by [...]
Final Plans
Posted in Community, Gods, Lynn Gazis-Sax, Self on November 2, 2009 | 4 Comments »
One of my Quaker meeting’s recurrent topics, brought up in Ministry and Oversight every couple of years or so, is a set of final plan documents that are filed with the meeting’s Recorder, to be referenced only if someone dies. We’re now discussing a revision of the document (but if you’ve already filed it, [...]
Links: Moral Murkiness, Destigmatizing Bipolar Disorder, Same-Sex Marriage in Schools, and Black Influence on American Culture
Posted in Community, Culture, Family, Gods, Lynn Gazis-Sax on October 27, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I met Jim Burklo back around the time he had the idea for Urban Ministry of Palo Alto. He was the driving force in organizing the group, pulling together the churches that supplied the board of directors and the volunteers, and for a time was our second Urban Minister. I was on the [...]
halfway through Purgatory
Posted in Arts, Family, Gods, Self, Sigaliris, tagged books, alzheimer's, Dante on October 21, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I’m trying to catch up, here, as you all continue to post your energetic and engaging thoughts about the course of the world. My father was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, and all hell has broken loose in my family of origin. That is, the flames that are always just below the surface, though sometimes banked [...]
R. Crumb, Whose Art Unleavened
Posted in Arts, Gods, Man, Mind, Scott Lahti, Sex, Woman, tagged bible, Genesis, Old Testament, R. Crumb, Robert Alter on October 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In the beginning was the begatting: as the Old Testament patriarch of underground comics witnesses Jehovah’s big debut like a dream come true, Robert Alter, leading academic expert on the Old Testament as European literature, assays the yeahs and nays as he picks up the Crumbs left behind by the couple who were done Eden [...]
A Bipolar Post Worth Reading
Posted in Gods, Lynn Gazis-Sax on October 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’m still in Hawaii, and don’t have too much time online for blogging, but I want to point you to a post by Sophia, We Bipolars, on bipolar disorder and her spiritual journey. (Sophia, I also promoted your post to Bipolar_Blogs on Twitter.)
Quaker Mate Swapping
Posted in Family, Gods, Humor, Lynn Gazis-Sax, Self, Sex on October 11, 2009 | 5 Comments »
This title is for my old grade school friend Sue, not because she’s either Quaker or inclined to engage in mate swapping, but just for the amusement value of having her see the words in the same sentence. And it also does connect with the post eventually. But I’ll start it out simply [...]
Quote of the Month
Posted in Culture, Family, Gods, Patrick, Politics, Woman, tagged Politics on October 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »
As a liberal trying to find her way, I often felt like I was trying on religions again. I didn’t fit in, asked lots of questions and was uneasy about my path. Being lost will do that, only I did not know I was on the wrong path. I channeled that anger at the “system” [...]
Revisiting my old Christians and Divorce Series
Posted in Family, Gods, Law, Lynn Gazis-Sax on October 10, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Of all the restrictions laid on sexuality by the stricter Christian denominations, condemnation of divorce is perhaps the one with the strongest Biblical justification: at several points in the New Testament, this prohibition (either with or without a narrow exception) is attributed to Jesus himself. At the same time, there are times when staying [...]
Intelligent Evolution
Posted in E. L. Beck, Gods, Nature, Science, tagged creation, evolution, intelligent design, intelligent evolution on October 9, 2009 | 18 Comments »
(Finally, a non-economic, non-political post. Yet, it may stir the hornets’ nest far more vigorously than anything I’ve written to date.)
“By the seventh day God completed His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done.” Genesis 2:2
And so the story of the universe’s [...]
Friday Hodge Podge: Dreams, Peace, Quaker Worship, Chapstick Lesbians, and TV Shows
Posted in Culture, Gods, Lynn Gazis-Sax, Science, Sex, Woman on October 9, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Dream: I’m in a room filled with Greeks and Turks, and I’m to sing Greek songs and dance. I wear a long dress that I purchased at a Greek festival. But I’m handed a page that has, not lyrics in Greek and music, as I expected, but translations of lyrics in English, and [...]
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a Jew?
Posted in Culture, Family, Gods, Humor, Patrick, Politics, World, tagged Foreign policy, Israel, Muslim, News, Opinion, Politics, religion, World News, World Politics on October 3, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Oh, now this is just rich….
A photograph of the Iranian president holding up his identity card during elections in March 2008 clearly shows his family has Jewish roots.
A close-up of the document reveals he was previously known as Sabourjian – a Jewish name meaning cloth weaver.
The short note scrawled on the card suggests his family [...]
African Ingenuity Blogwatch
Posted in Arts, Commerce, Gods, Health Care, Lynn Gazis-Sax on October 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Trust Africa blog, found via Africa Unchained. Africa Unchained also writes about Baobab Connections, a project that encourages youth from around the world to get together and talk about sustainable development.
Speaking of development, you, too, can become a microlender to a particular entrepreneur through Kiva.org (got this from Jana of pilgrimsteps, who’s also part [...]
DBSA Conference Keynote Address by Crystal Crawford: A Question of Faith: Reconciling Treatment & Your Faith in God
Posted in Gods, Health Care, Lynn Gazis-Sax on September 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The biography of Crystal Crawford in the DBSA Conference schedule says:
Crystal D. Crawford serves as CEO of the California Black Women’s Health Project (CABWHP), where she performs legislative, educational, and policy advocacy to improve the health status of black women and girls… Crystal is an architect of CABWHP’s Advocate Training Program and Black Women’s Mental [...]
Friday Hodge Podge: Movies, Excommunication, Lynching
Posted in Arts, Culture, Gods, Lynn Gazis-Sax, Nation, Politics, World on September 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »
L’Shana Tova to Jean, Lenny, Forest, Summit, and all my other Facebook friends and blog readers for whom this applies.
When it comes to Immigration Libby Grammer Garrett does NOT believe the Bible!
Posted in Culture, Gods, Nation, Patrick, Politics, Woman, tagged Christianity, conservative, Democrats, illegal immigration, liberals, Moonbats, Opinion, Politics, religion, Republican, Republicans on September 16, 2009 | 9 Comments »
I do not do Christianity on this blog much at all. Partially because I just do not feel that I am a qualified spokesman for Christian or the Baptist Faith, in which I am a part of.
However, when I read stuff like this right here, I get quite angry and feel the need to speak [...]
Lipstick
Posted in Arts, Culture, Gods, Lynn Gazis-Sax, Technology, Woman on September 9, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Andrew Rilstone defends C.S. Lewis from the charge that he shuts Susan off from salvation in The Last Battle for discovering lipstick and thus, in effect, for reaching sexual maturity. An interesting discussion ensues in the comments, about Susan and about C.S. Lewis’ attitudes toward women generally. My thoughts …
Things the Bible Would Have Said if the Author Had a Better Quote Book
Posted in Culture, Education, Gods, Language on September 8, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Warning: this is yet another rant from Jane Grey on people who cite the Bible without bothering to read it. If you’re not in the mood, go buy some popcorn.
That Other Blog Over There just attributed “hate the sin but love the sinner” to Jesus. The Other Blogger Over There is usually much [...]
Scattered thoughts on other people’s posts
Posted in Ethics, Gods, Law, Lynn Gazis-Sax, Sex, World on September 3, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Chris M., in Something I just learned from children’s religious education, writes about all the reasons that children’s religious education is working well at San Francisco Monthly Meeting. In my decades first at Palo Alto Friends Meeting and then at Orange County Friends Meeting, I’ve seen children’s religious education work variably; it’s well worth [...]
