Growing up in the Southern Baptist church, I often heard (from others, mind you, not my parents) that we shouldn’t dance. They said it was because dancing was sinful.
Now that I’m an adult, I realize there are other reasons why you might not want to dance.
Does this make up for yesterday’s video?
(the original source)
Sometimes our non-Christian friends ask us what our church services are like. It’s always hard to describe them in words, which is why I’m glad a friend of ours pointed us to the video below. Our services are exactly like this.
Zap!
I am a compulsive reader. At breakfast I’ll read the backs of cereal boxes. I can’t not read a sign I pass, or even the warnings on the back of a car’s visor about le sac gonflable. That’s why I read the tag on the back of the new car:
SMITHSON’S MOTORS
NICE CARS FOR GOOD PEOPLE
In [...]
A week ago, Lee Roop, a Huntsville Times columnist, was arrested for possession of cocaine and driving under the influence of drugs. He also happens to be a deacon[1] at my church.
I’m not going to talk about what Lee did. Instead, I’m going to marvel at one guy’s response on the newspaper’s forum when he [...]
This weekend we are having baby dedication for Liza at church. So we’re going to be up to our eyeballs in company. My dad and step mom are arriving this evening so we can spend a few days visiting. Stephen’s parents, two grandmothers and great aunt arrive on Saturday. Sunday is the dedication and then [...]
The first law: The ratio of finished projects to the number of posts and comments naturally approaches zero.
The second law: If the ratio begins at zero, it is unlikely ever to increase.
This helps explain the phenomenon where someone shows up on a forum for writers and starts talking about their fabulous novel which they never [...]
How do you know who’s a Christian?
That’s not an easy question. No definitional one is. If you’d like to prove that statement, go into a room of geeks and ask, “How do you know what science fiction is? What’s fantasy? How do you tell the difference?” Then run very far away.
But to return to my [...]
I am ill tonight. I am sick to my soul.
Twelve-year-old Deamonte Driver died of a toothache Sunday.
A routine, $80 tooth extraction might have saved him.
If his mother had been insured.
This is not, in and of itself, an unusual story. In 2003, nearly 16 percent of the US population was without health insurance. In the US, [...]
Since several people had questions about Advent, I thought I’d talk a little bit about the Christian traditions and more specifically what we do to celebrate the birth of Christ.
Stephen and I both grew up Southern Baptist. Baptists tend to be a bit more low church than other strains of Protestantism, so in many cases [...]