reflecting on various topics
Hi. I hope you’re doing ok. As you know, I’ve been going back and forth about the purpose of this blog, blah blah blah. Essentially, the crux of it is this: I’m deciding how authentic to be. So I’m going to go ahead and go with being authentic. I am a female, I am feminine, but I am not going to be so determined to be a people-pleaser that I stay quiet about things that might make people feel threatened or uncomfortable. The whole reason I started blogging to begin …
One thing that has been bothering me a lot has been the claim that there is a clear political affiliation that Christians should have- that God has a political party, and that religion and politics are synonymous. I want to share a challenge to that view. No political party is perfect, because we, as humans, are not perfect. Many issues that are hot in politics right now are nuanced, with many variations of grey in terms of possibilities of ways things can move forward. Gun rights In general, Democrats have …
Yesterday, one of my all-time favorite journalists, Nicholas Kristof, wrote “Progressive Christians Arise! Hallelujah!,”an opinion column in the New York Times that I found super inspirational. I’m sure it’s being discussed in many Christian circles, and I wanted to chime in on that conversation. He mentions that many of our elected democratic leaders are either Christians, or seem to espouse Christian culture: “Enter Joe Biden, one of the most religious presidents of the last century, along with Jimmy Carter and George W. Bush. Biden attends Mass regularly and inhabits faith as Donald …
A couple years ago, on Donald Trump’s first official day as elected President of the United States, I participated in the Womens’ March in our town. It was comparatively small (maybe 300 people), and it wasn’t an “official” march, but it was affiliated. It was very exciting to me to be able to actually do something to voice my dissent over Donald Trump’s election, and to stand up for basic human values of respect and tolerance. I went with a really good friend, and with my mom. I had to …
Hi. I want you to know that if you are a Christian who is distraught over the way other Christians, as a group, are responding to current events, you are not alone. If you believe that love is the way forward, not hate, you’re in good company. If you believe in the separation between church and state, you’re not the only one. It’s a pretty hard time nowadays for most people. We are in the middle of a pandemic, unemployment is skyrocketing, and people are getting sick and dying everywhere. …
