My Halloween Facebook “Coming out” as an ex-fundy, #exvangelical

I had not planned to "come out" like this but I think it is time. I grew up in a very strict evangelical version of Christianity, and later I spent 15 years in a form of Messianic Judaism which was very much in the same vein. In some ways fundamentalism is still my 'comfort zone', …

Parallax

"I can do some wonderful things with vegetables, Captain! My feragoit goulash is known across twelve star systems." - Neelix Summary In the episode, the Voyager crew respond to a distress call from an unknown ship trapped in an anomaly, which - thanks to temporal mechanics, which are notoriously unpredictable - turns out to be …

How to pray when life hurts?

This year seems to have been one upset, catastrophe, tragedy after another. I won't dwell on the particulars. But this verse came up in my daily readings and I felt an immediate identification with it: "If the LORD be with us, why hath all this befallen us? and where be all his miracles which our …

First Sunday of Lent

I am running a week behind now, as life has got in the way. Around a couple of weeks of a roller-coaster of looking after a very poorly, elderly dog, we had to have him put down last night. So right now I am feeling a little bit overwhelmed with grief . The next couple …

Cloudy with a Chance of Pasties

We had such a lovely Monday morning, sitting on the sea front, watching the birds; so perfect in fact that the thought ran through my mind that it was too good to be true. In the afternoon, I crashed my car. I ran into the back of a van with a step plate on the …

Journey continued

I wrote my 'Journey of Faith' in 5 parts, and then almost immediately decided to remove them (I may post them back up - I do like to retain my 'woman's right to change her mind'). But I realised that, in a sense, I was only sharing half the story, essentially the physical - which …