NAKED THEOLOGY

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What kind of crazy things are we telling our girls anyway?

Bunker Roy: Barefoot Movement

I can’t seem to embed this video, but please take the time to click  the picture and listen to what he says.  And visualize what they have accomplished through the  Barefoot Movement. Roy’s idea is that India and Africa are full of people with skills, knowledge and resourcefulness who are not recognized as engineers, architects or water experts but who can bring more to communities than governments or big businesses. – Guardian I so believe what he believes…especially in the power of the women of the world.

Sweet Grass Ceremony

One of my most memorable spiritual happenings in my life was a sweet grass ceremony that I attended many years ago. It was outdoors, simple, beautiful and honest and was a  connection to Mother Earth who is the source of all we have. Sweetgrass was what was burned at this ceremony at the beginning of the prayer to attract positive energies.  A beautiful drum beat accompanied the spiritual event. Our Native elders have taught: before a person can be healed or heal another, one must be cleansed of any bad feelings, negative thoughts, bad spirits or negative energy – cleansed [keep going ♥ ...]

Mormons & Proposition 8

Here is a quote from a blog by David French: On November 4, 2008, defenders of traditional marriage won perhaps their greatest—and to the secular liberal establishment, most shocking—victory in the almost decade-long struggle against the redefinition of marriage. Proposition 8, a state constitutional amendment establishing marriage as the union of one man and one woman, won a clear majority in California. Although outspent and vilified by the mainstream media, religious Californians opened their checkbooks, donated their time, and endured the scorn of the secular elite to overturn California’s judicially-imposed same-sex marriage regime. And where did a wildly disproportionate number [keep going ♥ ...]

Birds and the Bees

It’s Monday, September 12, 2011 and I sit on my front porch imbibing nature’s kaleidoscope in front of me. Nature soothes me. I feel at peace and closer to God when I’m in the middle of it. Rain or shine. Summer or winter. Today I especially feel closer to the creator of all things. She (he) was a wise one when she (he) put it all together. I’m sitting on my covered front porch with my paints on my palette and making some colour charts. Studying colours is not an easy thing. The sun is warm on me. A gentle [keep going ♥ ...]

The sin of lust?

I’m not going to start quoting scriptures to prove a point, because we all know that the verses are there to be found somewhere if you are so inclined to that viewpoint.  Having been raised Catholic, it was instilled in me as one of the 7 deadly sins which are wrath, greed, sloth, pride, lust, envy, and gluttony. King Solomon  himself listed these: A proud look. A lying tongue. Hands that shed innocent blood. A heart that devises wicked plots. Feet that are swift to run into mischief. A deceitful witness that uttereth lies. Him that soweth discord among brethren [keep going ♥ ...]

Vodka Sermon

Alcohol has been on my mind lately for two reasons. One because I needed vodka for a recipe and two because of the government having a sale on beer… and my mind went to many best forgotten places.

Osborne Jay Call – man of principles

My brother made a pit stop to see me on his trucking trip down east this week.  Not having seen each other for over a year, there was lots to talk about and being a trucker, he had lots of stories of near misses on the road, crazy wild animals  and truck stops. Laurent talked about some really bad truck stops but then mentioned one that was one step above the rest.  One that had nice showers,  good food, clean and didn’t sell anything bad. (I didn’t ask what anything bad was). Laurent said, “they are called Flying J’s and [keep going ♥ ...]

Dirty Feet

This week I had to go to the hospital to check out whether I had pneumonia.  My Dr. sent me for a chest x-ray to rule it out. You know the routine…remove all your clothes from the waist up and wear a johnny shirt tied in the back.  When I came out of my cubicle I sat down in one of the chairs and looked at the only other person in the room who was also wearing a johnny shirt and sitting in a wheel chair. I tend to not have a problem looking people in the eye…and this man [keep going ♥ ...]

Carl Bloch

As in most things in life, we can only appreciate the things that other people do, only to the measure that one has tried them ourselves.

Using Hell as a Weapon Against One Another

I don’t agree with everything Rob Bell says. But I think they’re worth saying. I think he puts a voice into the whole evangelical world which, if people will listen to it, will put you on your guard against judging people too quickly, making rapid dogmatic judgments on people. I don’t like it when people use hell and the wrath of God as weaponry against one another. I knew that people would jump on me for writing the endorsement. I wrote the endorsement because I would like people to listen to him. He may not be right. But he’s doing [keep going ♥ ...]