Your Story. Your voice. the best it can be.
My recommended summer reading list. I don’t get paid to recommend these. They’re just books I like: Sci-fi, Christian, nonreligious, biography, spirituality. What books do you recommend?
For those of you waiting for November 6th, I offer these non-partisan voting tips that come from many years of experience. I hope they help to clarify your choices. We’re all in this together.
A funny thing happened this week on Facebook. I was “outed” as a feminist. To my knowledge, that had never been a secret, but it caught some folks off guard. Apparently, their ideas about feminism clashed with their ideas about Christianity, and they couldn’t wrap their heads around someone who believes in both.
I was in first grade when my world became desegregated. It was 1969–five years after the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and almost two years after Tampa’s three-day-long race riot, complete with a National Guard presence.
It wasn’t about Evolution or Creation for either one of them.
Did you vote today? We Americans live in such a unique time and place in the world, in that we have some say in the laws and people running our government. Historically, this has not been true—and still is not true—for most of the world. This great responsibility and blessing scares us. Because we have some control, but not all, we get frantic. We desperately try to persuade others to see what we see, and when they don’t, we take it personally. How could they be so blind?
My daddy taught me that polite people don’t talk politics or religion. By that measure, I’m not very polite. I blame peer pressure. Everyone’s doing it these days. My last blog—my take on the Republicans in Tampa—apparently caused reader confusion. . .
It’s time to address the elephant in the room. The Republican National Convention plopped right down in my home city of Tampa, Florida this week. Roads closed and utility workers went into overtime accommodating the Republican party elite and their honored guests. Strip clubs and lap dancers . . .
Blue Like Jazz is for Protestants and Catholics and atheists and agnostics, both gay and straight. It’s kind of a love it or hate it movie.
Your Story. Your voice. the best it can be.
A personal blog by John Parsons, author of the Hebrew for Christians web site.
Your Story. Your voice. the best it can be.
Your Story. Your voice. the best it can be.
Your Story. Your voice. the best it can be.
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