In researching local churches to see if Marc and I might want to try another, my search grabbed a number of churches that teach spiritual divinity but certainly not scriptural relevance. In fact, I even found a church that spent a lot of time knocking prayer. Intercession prayer, in particular. They favor meditation and go into great depths explaining how judgmental Christians and the Church are, and how this new outlook very much breaks...
I have an admission to make. I have a thing for ethnic men. I have a thing for dark skin. Sometimes for long, lovely hair. For lovely, dark eyes. For beautiful souls and joyful, artful spirits peaking through the manly exteriors. Think Troy Polamalu. Or Larry Fitzgerald.* Both of whom I have called “My Football Boyfriends” for the last several years. Marc has joked many occasions that if I left him it would...
Christians, As I did research to better understand the differences between the Pantheon and the Parthenon (I encounter far too many people who do not realize they are two separate buildings), I learned that both were built as temples to gods. The Pantheon was to honor all of the roman gods – and was built about 100 years after Christ’s life and about 75 years after an imprisoned Paul wrote the book of Romans. ...
The fictional Carrie Bradshaw questioned her relationships for all of NYC to read. Real life Christian music artist Carlos Whitaker writes the most inspiring and honest articles that question his very Faith and everything we think we know about the Church. Like many other authors, I put thoughts into the world that might offend. One of my recent posts reflects on online privacy (oxymoron). Like any editorial tends to do, my post included anecdotes...
In 2009, I embarked into new quests to figure out who I was and what I need from life. Having the luxury to do so, part of my journey landed me on a solitary camping trip. At the beach – the Outer Banks, specifically. Honestly, after a year of increasingly seeing that I felt a deep void somewhere inside myself, I reached out to God. This interest in finding my Faith probably started as...
Thank you to Ryan Boyles, aka @theRab, for sharing this pic he took at the local Farmers’ Market. Cheers and love, Ashley Sue PS. Please forgive me for using the term “Big Guy”. Lame.
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