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2024-11-22T14:54:39-05:00

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Women, Sugar Cane Fields And Forced Hysterectomies

Last updated on: November 22, 2024 at 2:54 pm By Christy Thomas

Women working in sugar fields in India are getting unnecessary hysterectomies in order to keep working, essentially as slaves. How are you doing with keeping your baptismal vows? Do you think about this one very much: Do you accept the freedom and power God gives you to resist evil, injustice and oppression in whatever forms they present themselves? I think about it a lot, especially where continued violence against women is concerned. It’s not getting better. I feel so helpless... Read more

Food and Religion

2024-11-20T19:36:20-05:00

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Let The Truth Set Us Free: Donald Trump Is A Sexual Predator

Last updated on: November 20, 2024 at 7:36 pm By Christy Thomas

I do not blame those who voted for this sexual predator. They had their reasons, and many of those reasons were valid. I simply want some truth so we can all be set free. The memories swamped my brain and whacked my generally stable emotions into incoherence. The rape, the handsy gropes, the slam against the wall with a tongue thrust down my throat, the comments, the never-ending reminders of my lesser worth because I was a woman, the insistence... Read more

Politics and Religion

2024-08-08T13:23:48-05:00

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Five Reasons Christians Normalize Unacceptable Behavior

Last updated on: August 8, 2024 at 1:23 pm By Christy Thomas

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The GOP and much of the Christian world has embraced a man who is morally, spiritually, emotionally, educationally, and temperamentally unfit to be President of the US. This is a man who operates solely out of the basic principle of revenge/hit back harder and nastier to anyone who doesn't suck up to his massive ego. Read more

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2024-08-02T10:42:30-05:00

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Mr. Trump’s Governing Style: Feral Instinct

Last updated on: August 2, 2024 at 10:42 am By Christy Thomas

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Donald Trump governs on “feral instinct.” Believe it. The “I’ve never met a Republican I didn’t like” Wall Street Journal thinks so. This quote is from an opinion piece in the Wednesday, July 31 edition of the Wall Street Journal: Mr. Roberts explains in a letter to the editor nearby that Project 2025 was an attempt to offer ideas to debate and govern. But his mistake was thinking that Mr. Trump cares about anyone’s ideas other than his own. He governs on... Read more

Politics and Religion

2024-08-07T10:35:18-05:00

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The Scriptures Prove It: DEI is NOT Biblical

Last updated on: August 7, 2024 at 10:35 am By Christy Thomas

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In case you didn’t know, being called a DEI candidate is a clear insult! Let’s see who all might qualify for that epithet. I see lots of negative political chatter about the Democratic Presidential Candidate, current Vice-President Kamala Harris. Many of her detractors claim she is a “DEI” candidate. Now, in case you didn’t know: this is very much meant as an insult. “DEI” stands for “Diversity, Equity, Inclusion,” a movement to open up our society more fully to historically... Read more

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Politics and Religion

2024-07-30T16:04:54-05:00

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Jesus, Trump Voters, And The Good Samaritan

Last updated on: July 30, 2024 at 4:04 pm By Christy Thomas

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Despite what Trump voters think, I contend Mr. Trump was extremely lucky. I also know that anyone alive is extremely lucky because bad stuff is just around the corner for anyone. Eight years ago, while writing a newspaper column called “Ask the Thoughtful Pastor,” I received a question about Trump voters. The original column is here, and I will repeat some of it in this column but with updated material. The original question: Dear Thoughtful Pastor: I’ve noticed a lot... Read more

Politics and Religion

2024-07-17T16:05:43-05:00

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Project 2025: Pleasantville In Real Life

Last updated on: July 17, 2024 at 4:05 pm By Christy Thomas

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Like many “liberals,” I’ve been hearing horror stories about Project 2025. As a big believer in looking at the source material, I downloaded the whole sloggy 922 pages of it. It’s a straight, white man’s dream. Ah . . . Project 2025. What a lovely, utopian world: almost no Federal Government, locals handle all educational decisions, households all based on the nuclear family, daddy out to work to earn money, mommy taking care of the household, and the children happily... Read more

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2024-06-12T13:49:53-05:00

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Just Imagine: Their Heaven Becomes Your Hell

Last updated on: June 12, 2024 at 1:49 pm By Christy Thomas

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Just imagine, if you can, that they, the ones not like you, turn to you and say, You are wrong. That One whom the sacred words reveal is like me, not like you. You are only partial. I am whole. Since you cannot be like me, you cannot be like That One. Imagine, if you will, with me for just a moment. Imagine a world where sacred knowledge was written in a sacred book, but in languages not your own.... Read more

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2024-05-02T13:32:27-05:00

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The Split Peace Lily And The Split UMC

Last updated on: May 2, 2024 at 1:32 pm By Christy Thomas

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Four years ago, I split an overcrowded peace lily (Spathiphyllum). They’re common plants, often sent to funerals, and I’ve had this one for a long time. It desperately needed to be broken apart, rootbound, with no space in the pot to grow while slowly gaining a hard, nearly impenetrable center. The painful process to split the peace lily I gently pulled it from the pot and slowly, ever so slowly, broke it apart. Despite my care, some pieces had to... Read more

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2024-05-02T13:32:28-05:00

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Parents, Your Daughters Are Being Choked

Last updated on: May 2, 2024 at 1:32 pm By Christy Thomas

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When was the last time you tried screaming while being choked by someone bigger and stronger than you? Women can’t fix this; men must step up to the plate. Photo credit: 9877400 | Hand Throat © Pzromashka | Dreamstime.com I was eating breakfast and causally glancing at the Sunday New York Times when I came across this piece. It speaks graphically of the latest trend of teenage sex: the male partner “choking” the female. Here’s a snippet (bold/italics mine): For the past four years, Dr. Herbenick... Read more

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