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What You Can’t Afford Not to Know About Your Marriage

[featured-image size=”featured” link=”null” link_single=”inherit” single_newwindow=”false”]123rf.com[/featured-image] DISCLAIMER: This post contains a lot of generalizations, named such because they are generally true. They may not be true about you or your relationship. One of the things I love about blogging is that I get to give away my secrets. In this post I’m going to teach youContinue reading “What You Can’t Afford Not to Know About Your Marriage”

The Reality That Is Making Me More Liberal (theologically)

[featured-image link=”null” link_single=”inherit” single_newwindow=”false”]123rf.com[/featured-image] People who don’t work with people day in and day out, in the trenches of their lives, can afford to philosophize about people, to make up abstractions, and talk about the rightness/wrongness of people in philosophical terms, holding people up to their abstractions and deciding who fits and who is lackingContinue reading “The Reality That Is Making Me More Liberal (theologically)”

My Confession

I have a confession to make. I see grace growing in my life. I see an ability growing in my life to withstand loss and suffering. I don’t love it, but I can do it, and I do not fear it. I see growing in my life, imperfectly but perceptibly, the capacity to be criticizedContinue reading “My Confession”

Why I’m Done Arguing From Scripture About Homosexuality

During the days of slavery, people who kept countering the “Biblical” arguments for slavery with the “Biblical” arguments for the end of slavery were wasting their time. The very back and forth of it made it seem like possibly those who argued from scripture in support of slavery had a point at least worth opposing.Continue reading “Why I’m Done Arguing From Scripture About Homosexuality”

Should Intolerance Be Tolerated?

I used to think it was hypocritical when people would claim to be tolerant, and yet not tolerate the intolerance of others. But should intolerance be tolerated? I now realize that if a person is truly tolerant, intolerance is a characteristic they MUST NOT tolerate. [Tweet this] Tolerance is actually a very low standard. ItContinue reading “Should Intolerance Be Tolerated?”

Decide to Never Let Fear Keep You from the Truth

The most significant moment of my moral life was the moment I decided to never let fear, or being offended, to keep me from considering whether something is true. Make that commitment and your life will never be the same. It’s the moral equivalent of taking the red pill. When you make that decision, youContinue reading “Decide to Never Let Fear Keep You from the Truth”

Who Are the Real Feminists?

I read an article this morning called Don’t Call Beyonce’s Sexual Empowerment Feminism. I’d recommend you read the article, but the gist of it is that Beyonce (and, by extension, all female artists who are using sex to sell records) is not a feminist, regardless of her claims to the contrary. I agree with theContinue reading “Who Are the Real Feminists?”

Michigan Gay Marriage Ban Struck Down

[featured-image link=”null” link_single=”inherit” single_newwindow=”false” alt=”scales of justice gay marriage ban struck down”]123rf.com[/featured-image] It’s official. Michigan’s constitutional amendment prohibiting same-sex marriage has been declared unconstitutional. Things in Michigan are about to change, big-time. I was one of the people going to door to door having people sign petitions to get the gay marriage ban onto theContinue reading “Michigan Gay Marriage Ban Struck Down”

More Boundaries with Parents

Check out my first post on this topic What if the military were ordered to set up a perimeter around a certain area and keep people out, but kept complaining, “People are always coming up to us and begging us to let them through. It’s really hard not to! Or they keep just slipping throughContinue reading “More Boundaries with Parents”

Gays Bullying America: Our epidemic of anti-straight discrimination

Check out this audio clip of Michele Bachmann talking about how gays are bullying America: Wow. How poignant. I didn’t realize how many gays have targeted their straight classmates in schools and picked on them mercilessly. I guess I hadn’t heard about gangs of gays tying straight people to fences, beating them within an inchContinue reading “Gays Bullying America: Our epidemic of anti-straight discrimination”