Tag: religion
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Ain’t nothing wrong with faith
After yesterday’s little rant about public funding going to “independent schools”, let me be clear about something: I’m not saying there’s anything wrong with religion or with faith (I know some folks disagree, but that’s a discussion for another time). As someone who spent every summer in bible school, who helped run church youth groups,…
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Some things are better left unread
I got into this discussion twice in the last week. Granted, once was because I started the discussion, but still. A while ago, a friend of mine suggested I read a certain book. It was, the friend said, a favourite. The sort of book one reads over and over so that none of it is…
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Heavy thoughts
I was talking to my friend Sexy D yesterday (and his new ink is GORGEOUS), and we started talking about Heavy Things. We sometimes do that, him and me. He’s good to talk to because I don’t think he comes from a perspective of trying to change my mind, and I don’t try to change…
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Vatican, See?
That was a bit of a joke, there, in the title. For church nerds. The Roman Catholic church has made an overture and invitation to ‘conservative’ Anglicans (read: the more ‘orthodox’ Anglo-Catholics) to join the Roman Catholic church. Those people who have serious concerns about the Anglican Church’s position to ordain women as priests and…