I certainly hope

that Mr. Webb will give us all a chance to see God's party membership card when it is issued...

God is a Lib Dem, minister says



(Today is a day for light news, I guess...)

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And God said...

"Oh, it's just those humans again. I'll never figure out why I decided to create them in the first place. I must have had an off day. They hardly ever listen to me. They question everything. Most don't even belive in me anymore. Now dogs, there's a success! No better creature in all My creation than a dog. Loyal, trustworthy, loving, brave - just kind of what I was hoping from humans."

Tracking Creation in Glen Rose

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A treehouse




A huge, huge, huge tree house!


The World's Biggest Tree House by Horace Burgess

God told him to build it. Yep. And you know, for some reason, as much as I have read, in the years since starting blogging, so many bizarre and weird stories about what God has told people to do, more than anyone else I believe his story. His home is a work of beauty, a construction of faith and a sign to unbelievers, in a sense. And that's what true requests from God are most often, when our feeble faith and faculties acknowledge them, signs that God exists and that God is involved in people's lives in a real way. I like this. God bless you, Mr. Burgess. And I think God already has...

Happy Easter, everyone!

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I decided some time ago that,

while Homer has some remarkable flashes of insight, I can't pattern my life after what he states.

Struggling with the question of belief? Homer Simpson's got the answer

"The Springfield philosopher shows us that the issue of God's existence or non-existence is of little importance"

I'm sure that neither he, nor his creators, are great philosphers, brilliant comedians though they are...

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Everyone is looking for something

Tim Tebow and the Second Coming

Americans seem more likely to make a completely unsubstantiated leap of faith than most people and they're searching just as hard an anyone. They admire strong, husky manly men, and this one honours God, consequently he may very well be God!

I know the work of two of the three scholars they contacted for the article. I'd trust them more than anyone else to be accurate in their appraisal...

Good grief! I'm off to Bedlam!

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And he was very human

George’s God: The faith of the Quiet Beatle.

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Juergen Habermas and God

What Happens when a Leftist Philosopher Discovers God?

Not a conversion 'finding'...

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I have had

lots of experience using C.E. and B.C.E. in the research work I used to do, and really, I'm not sure why there's such a flap.

Christians Outraged After BBC Bans Network Mentions of Christ-Centric Timestamps

Does anyone really believe that people were honouring God in some way when they used the B.C. or A.D. convention? Or that they've decided to dishonour God and Christ by changing its use? I guess they do. I didn't even think that it was used so much any more, other than in science and history. Anyway, I've come to expect almost anything from the hoi polloi, so I'm not surprised...

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This person

has a good attitude.

My Faithlessness: The atheist way through AA

The only required really is a desire to stop drinking, and all those program adherents who proclaim a necessity to believe in a specific god have forgotten that the steps say that a higher power is whatever you choose him (or it) to be. Many people have had a good life of happy sobriety with nothing more of a higher power than the group they attend.

Good for you, Marya. One day at a time...

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And yet

I have a feeling He's so often disappointed...

Church Sign WIN

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What a difficult thing

for their faith.

Evangelicals Question The Existence Of Adam And Eve

Their theology is based on certain main principles. If these things change, are modified or destroyed, what is the outcome? Either their theology has to change or their faith changes. Or vanishes...

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As in the words of St. Francis...

Death to Self Won’t Kill You

In fact, it's necessary...

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I don't think I posted this

Prayer Power: New research shows faith saves lives

For every study that shows one thing there's another study that shows the opposite. I don't think that just because there's the power of suggestion involved, or the encouraging of our own healing powers, that God isn't involved in all that anyway...

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I don't know about that

God Is in Luck: Are Sociologists Correct When They Say This Is His Century?

I've never really considered the idea that God needs luck. It's almost an opposite idea from the concept of an omnipotent God. Still, things seem to be working out for Him.

I hope He's buying lottery tickets!

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Knocking on Heaven's door

Near-death experience led to heaven's door

I have this on my Kindle. It's good, it's just the gushing part that irritates me and makes it difficult for me to read in one sitting. I trust the experiences of children more than that of adults somehow..

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Most people

may have to rely on the Holy Spirit as their personal spiritual director.


Pope Benedict XVI recommends spiritual direction for everyone

Otherwise, our spiritual direction comes from homilies and personal study and enrichment. There aren't enough people around to provide personal spiritual direction for people...

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An older article

A Christian Cure for OCD?

"Psychiatrist Ian Osborn claims that trust in God can overcome mental illness."

But does it really offer any hope?

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Such terrible pain...

God of the Schizophrenic

"Rediscovering my faith amid the ravages of mental illness."

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We're all getting older

Paul Simon Has Been 'Thinking about (God) More'

I think this happens to a lot of us as we get older. Someone like Paul Simon, who has written thoughtful lyrics to music for the greater part of his life, probably spends more time thinking about various things than a lot of people.

(SWMBO has been thinking of my death lately, it seems, and making plans to organize her needed resources close to home. I wonder if she knows something I don't...)

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He forgot a word

Indifference to God brings indifference to evil, says Pope 

That word would be 'can', or 'may', or 'often'. I'm not certain that I would say that all people who are indifferent to the existence of God are indifferent to evil. He may mean 'the ultimate end' of that sort of thinking, or it's just general advice to Christians. That's most likely...

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