The carpenter's son

Prizing the Bible from the hand of Christianity
March 31, 2012 01:56AM
“Thank you for your kind words, Patience. I think in a case like this the religion gets reduced to a position more like an exclusive club. A club has rul…”
About: Too much power, and no power at all
March 12, 2012 11:25AM
“Dammit, I love your writing. The paragraph describing being pulled out of class by the school therapist captures a young girl's embarrassment in minute…”
About: My husband told his english class I had Aspergers
March 11, 2012 03:10AM
“The sensation of being buried alive must be something akin to Larkin's "coastal shelf". I used to think that the final stanze in Philip Larkin…”
About: Buried Alive
March 09, 2012 12:22PM
“"People will come Ray. They'll come to Iowa for reasons they can't even fathom. They'll turn up your driveway not knowing for sure why they're doi…”
About: Field of Dreams... Is Within You
March 07, 2012 05:32PM
“I've been looking forward to these articles, Meg. I appreciate that I might be asking something that you will eventually get around to answering, but...…”
About: Prayer or Meditation? It's All Good
March 05, 2012 02:26AM
“Raymond - thank you for those very encouraging words. Finally realising that the characters in the Bible should be viewed as real people "with fee…”
About: Samuel - A terrible warning for the stoic man
March 03, 2012 02:22AM
“I think it is too easy to be distracted by the literal reading. It is a mythology. It can be pulled apart on many levels - its simplicity of language,…”
About: Bible Psychology - thousands of years ahead of its time
March 01, 2012 03:10AM
“I would agree with you to a great extent, Frank. The Old Testament can be viewed as a self-serving history. The Israelites looked back and interpreted…”
About: Bible Psychology - thousands of years ahead of its time
February 29, 2012 11:44AM
“Meghill, you are so kind.”
About: Bible Psychology - thousands of years ahead of its time
February 11, 2012 02:18AM
“How about the possibility that Jesus was never seeking followers in the first place? Most of what is written about Jesus was written several decades aft…”
About: Jesus forbids exclusion!
February 09, 2012 03:59PM
“"Guessing" is a very clever word to use because it has the effect of paralysing the mind. It stops it in its tracks and forces a re-evaluatio…”
About: More God Talk....
February 09, 2012 01:45AM
“Thank you, Meg. I'm a bit distracted because I have just read the comments over at your last post. I'm going to mull over it for the day and post a comm…”
About: It's not about God, it's about you
February 09, 2012 01:37AM
“"Labling is disabling" (Faber&Mazlish/Haim Ginott classic quote) Perhap s people label themselves in more subtle, insidious ways. People ca…”
About: A Take on Labels
February 09, 2012 01:25AM
“Thanks for posting a link to the Primal Family website. I hadn't heard of it before. It's a great article, and a good index of the Peter Gray articles…”
About: Forget Tiger Mom and French Mom: Meet Hunter-Gatherer Mom
February 08, 2012 03:14PM
“"I have faith in my gut", I like that, meghill. That's as good a place as any for faith to reside. I like to differentiate between "beli…”
About: More God Talk....
February 07, 2012 01:36AM
“Thank you so much, Ashem.”
About: It's not about God, it's about you
February 06, 2012 11:01AM
“I loved the quote from David Bohm on page 7. He encapsulates something I have recognised for a while now. It was refreshing and encouraging to see it s…”
About: On the Meaning of Sin
February 04, 2012 02:51AM
“Forgiveness is a happy by-product of understanding. We need to take the time to understand why someone acted, or acts, in a certain way. When we unders…”
About: A Meditation on Forgiveness
February 03, 2012 02:56PM
“Lovely thoughts, here. My oldest has a little of the "fear of the dark" in her - as many children (and adults) do. I was fascinated with the…”
About: On Fear
February 03, 2012 02:07AM
“Oooh...it's a hard choice, and you know it, too. That's why you're putting it to the vote. I'm going to go with...1”
About: Love vs Love: Which one should I choose? (sketch)
February 02, 2012 02:51PM
“That one commandment would solve a lot of problems.”
About: I need a new religion
February 01, 2012 01:11AM
“That an understandable response to an unhelpful explanation, baltimore. Thank you for the encouraging words, r.”
About: The debt you owe to yourself
January 31, 2012 12:46PM
“I watched her recent TED talk on Life's Third Act where she talks about those three segments. I wholeheartedly agreed with her words about doing a life…”
About: My Fifteen Minute Love Affair with Jane Fonda
January 31, 2012 12:37PM
“Hear, hear!”
About: The Case for Hypocrisy