h/t nakedpastor
1. The Episcopal Cafe has a very thought provoking article about whether theology supports child abuse. I know a number of atheist friends and lapsed Catholics take this view and I think the church needs to seriously listen, however painful it is to hear.
2. Worship idea - dad its me. This post made me cry. I think because I so want God to be like this dad and it awoke in me a mass of emotions when you apply the advert to God.
3. St Aelred -patron saint of queers. I read a number of blogs written by LGBT people, and I find they somehow keep me honest, I just love this post.
4. Sue has blogged on Trust. To be honest I love all her posts, she has a profound gentleness without compromising feistiness, I don't know how she does it.
5. Anita does a stream of consciousness in an attempt to work through anger before sundown. I love posts like these - I don't want to be preached at, I just want to share life.
6. The Satirical Christian is just silly. He is great - you gotta laugh sometimes otherwise you might cry!
7. The clerics guide to being single. This made me laugh. If you aren't a vicar, or you aren't single, or you aren't trying to date as single vicar you may not get it.
8. Yes God is an omnipotent homophobe with anger issues. I totally blame my boyfriend for alerting me to this video, which I 'watched' with my hands over my face groaning in disbelief and embarrassment.
9. I only just discovered the blog LLM Calling, and I am enjoying it a lot. I love this post because for some of us families like this are normal, but no one ever speaks of it, so those with difficult situations feel even more isolated.
10. I really enjoy Charlie Peer's blog, and this is a wise post about the B&B hoo-haa.
8 comments:
Thanks, Lesley. I really enjoyed some of your selections. What fun!
You really are paranoid, aren't you? Yeah, well, thanks for including me in the weirdy round-up, I feel great now. Plus feeling seriously guilty about taking gratuitous swipes at fellow bloggers.
Anyway Lesley, your thoughts are never stereotypical, never ever.
Lol!
Maybe I need to work on my paranoia! (seriously)
Please don't feel guilty.. it is just I so enjoy your blog but fairly often think 'ooo, he is less happy with some things written, but I wonder what and I wonder if I have fallen into that trap'.. of course if I knew it was me that that would be ok because we could discuss it :)
I think the other thing to say is I have come under fire and been accused of not reading a document that I criticise, not valuing unity, being like the BNP, being like a secular politician.. the list goes on and on really.. so I am feeling a bit wounded.
I know what that is like, I'm feeling bruised today as well. Nothing to do with blogging, something else where I have upset someone and got a kicking, totally unfairly as it seems to me.
It's difficult to take all these hits, isn't it? It's not surprising if we sometimes become too delicate (or alternatively get too hard on the outside).
yeah....
Glad to be among the Weirdy Web! And thanks for pointing out the post on St. Aelred. I'm still waiting to hear from those in the church who would complain that "of course, a LEZ-BEE-AN would push the 'homosexual agenda' and claim that a nice abbot like Aelred was a gay man." Perhaps the lack of complaint is a sign that some of that set has moved on. I sure hope so!
I think things are moving on Susan, thank God! It has made me want to go and visit Jean in Hexham next year to celebrate the man.
Charlie, I was clearly cold and miserable yesterday! I have changed the post - sorry for taking a swipe at a fellow blogger for taking swipes at fellow bloggers!!!
I'm on here again- aren't you lovely? :)
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