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Serenity Thwarted

We are prisoners in a broken culture.

The Winter of My Discontent

VACTERL occasionally gives you a little break. Though you may have an onerous lists of tasks required to keep your child happy and healthy, you get into an offbeat rhythm that mimics normal life. You find a place of serenity and you think that you have beaten back the deadly predators. But really you are […]

Imagine, part 2

On three: One, Three, Two… I know, I know, I already published part 3. I winged part 2 at the meeting, but I want a complete set so here goes Paradise Lost So purely from a faith standpoint, I had a pretty great early childhood. But unfortunately as I got older, the adults around me […]

Imagine, part 3

Four Years in the Desert Young adulthood kicked off with the end of college. By some miracle, I graduated from Bethany on time with a bachelor’s degree in psychology. I wanted to go to grad school to become a therapist, but my student loan dept (modest by today’s standards) freaked me out. I needed a […]

Turn or Burn

My world has been rocked this week. I found out about a scandal at my workplace. It is really bothering me. If the allegations are true, this individual did some pretty “Immoral” stuff. This is my question: Do we have to have a God to behave morally? It seems to me that morality and spirituality […]

Tooth-tify

Yesterday was a friend’s going away party at work. We had lunch at Uncle Julio’s, a local Mexican restaurant. I was munching away on a basket of chips when I thought I bit on a course piece of cornmeal. It wasn’t cornmeal. It was my tooth. Crushed that sucker to bits. All that remains […]

Imagine, part 1

What do you know about the circumstances of your birth? There are a couple of tidbits I remember hearing about the day I was born. First of all it was August and my mother just wanted me out. It was hot and nobody in Colorado had AC back then, except of course the hospital. My […]

Liturgy

So as I mentioned in my last posting, I have started therapy again. We have been spending a lot of time discussing my religious upbringing and practices. I had a bit of an epiphany in my last session. I was going through my religious history. I will just outline for brevity here: First religious memories […]

Fun with the Apocalypse

Who said the end of the world would not be fun. According to people at my parents’ church, Barack Obama is the anti-Christ. Thank goodness! All of the other anti-Christs from my childhood were so mean. Henry Kissinger was kind of grumpy. Nixon was too evil. Clinton was too messy (especially on blue […]