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Marsha last won the day on November 13 2010

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  1. I have seen many of those movies! Loved "Eat, Pray, Love"....and many more of the above. How about Yentl? Boy in the Stripped Pajamas (sad and shocking, but what a lesson it tries to teach) Driving Miss Daisy
  2. Btw, Rob Bell's idea of who Christ is, is also very unorthodox. He believes people can be following Jesus without ever knowing him by that name.
  3. I read Rob Bell's book, "Love Wins", a couple of months ago and absolutely loved it. A lot of the ideas are very similar to other progressives (as was mentioned), but Rob does have his own unique way of expressing it. I am saddened, but not surprised, that his own evangelical community (many of them) are rejecting his work as heretical. He is actually a shining candle in the darkness. I loved his ideas of how we might continue progressing, even after this lifetime, and that Christ's door is always open, whenever we are ready to go and be with him, even in the eternities. That bolded part is very profound (and yet so true in it's simplicity). Something I had always felt, but never really gave much voice to...
  4. Loved all three of those clips. Stephen Cobert is great! He and Jon Stewart are two of my favorite funny guys...both very bright. Bart Erhman is an interesting guy, as well. I've watched him in debate a couple of times.
  5. I am definitely a supporter of gay rights, same-sex marriage, etc. As far as how to support that biblically, I used to worry about that some, but I really don't today. I know there are interpretations on the "abomination" passages that are different from the way conservative Christianity interprets them. Basically, any relationship can be an "abomination" before God, if it is loveless & abusive. Contrarily, relationships (traditional or same-sex) that are loving and nurturing do not fall into that category.
  6. All of yours are very good. 1. Thinking, praying, meditating, walking, listening, worshiping... 2. I love the constantly unfolding story.
  7. Seeking understanding/meaning, found The Way. OR Spirit child, mother, wife, sister, daughter (That's not easy! And, I'm not even normally that wordy, but SIX words?! LOL)
  8. I thought so, too. When he first started this sermon, I was very curious about where he would go with it...and very pleased about where it ended up. That's too bad. I see you are in the Dallas/Ft.Worth area, Bill. I lived in Weatherford for just under a year, when my first husband was in the service (many, many years ago). It was pretty much out in the boonies, even though Ft. Worth was only 25 miles away. Still quite a drive to get somewhere. As for high church, I kind of like all of that pomp and circumstance. The church I've been attending is a Christian Reformed and they are fairly "high church". It's a Reformation Church (Calvinist)...yeah Calvinist!...I know, I know! lol UMC is United Methodist? That would probably be a pretty good denomination. Thank you so much!
  9. Haha! I like Rachel's smilies! Picked up The Course in Miracles last night and started reading it again. I remember now, why I was turned off to it. It talks about personal revelation, which, at the time, I was rejecting. If it wasn't in the Bible, it was wrong (was my thinking, when I first started reading it). Amazingly, what I read last night fits in with a lot my former LDS beliefs. I am thinking...all of the things I have studied over the years...Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, Mormonism, Evangelicalism and now Progressive Christianity, is at some point going to come all together into this big pool of knowledge and experience that, in many ways, will be similar. I, now, want to see the similarities, instead of the differences. (I should say I am now OPEN to seeing the similarities, rather than worrying over the differences)
  10. I talked to my husband, last night, about what I would like to do, as far as visiting new churches, and a little about the reasons why. Surprisingly, he is agreeing with me about the focus of the church we've been attending, and is more than willing to perhaps find a new church home. Sooooo, we visited the First Christian Church down the street from us, this morning, and had a very nice experience. The minister is a very good speaker. The service was fairly traditional, as far as music and form. We took communion, etc. One thing I loved was that they had a Bell Choir. I love bell choirs. I belong to a senior bell choir through our local senior center and I just love it. We don't play actual bells, though...we play tone chimes, which are long tubes with a hammer that sound like bells. Anyway, that was very fun part of the service, for me. The minister spoke on the Book of Revelation...which, I thought, WOW, that's a rather heavy subject for Sunday morning. But, I loved what he did with it. He talked about the return of Christ in a very different way than I had ever heard it discussed. First, he talked about how every generation has believed that they live in the generation of Christ's return. All of the "signs" (immorality, earthquakes, etc) have been apparent in every generation, since the death of Christ. Although, he hinted that he believed Christ would return in "Glory", in a most spectacular way, someday, his main message was that Jesus returns every single day. He is always there, if we are open to the message and his bidding. Jesus is on a mission, and he wants to invoke our help, if we are willing. He has already returned...in a sense, he never left us. I liked it. We will probably go back next week...unless I find another church or two I want to visit, in the interim. Good experience, though. I'm glad we went.
  11. This is interesting. A friend of mine gave me "Course in Miracles" a couple of years ago. She thought I "needed" it. I read the first chapter and went "Huh?"...and put it away. Reading all of this has encouraged me to pick it up again and have a second look. Maybe it will make more sense to me, now. Thanks for the links (and the discussion--even though I see it's a fairly old one).
  12. The concern for my husband is, in part, because he has only just recently started going to church with me. We never really attended church, very often, in former years, but when I started going to this small church and genuinely liked the people there (they are very welcoming and sweet people), he decided to try it and has actually enjoyed it very much. This could be a sticky point...and I don't want to discourage him. I guess we really need to talk about it. I need to be clear about what I am wanting...and doing.
  13. Yes, I was thinking along this line, as well. As much as I love the people in this church, it still has the feel of disingenuousness on my part, because I don't feel free to express the "real me", or ask certain questions, or question certain teachings, without someone thinking I am going apostate or accepting terrible error. The judgments will be there, spoken or unspoken, because that is simply a large part of the conservative orientation. Its so wonderful to have the perspective of more women here. Look forward to reading more of your posts. Thank you, Joseph. It has been a real pleasure, so far.
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