I've got an NUS card

[busy_body]

I’m too infrequent a journaller for anyone to be wondering where I’ve been but I’ll tell you anyway because it’s really exciting (to me anyway

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[scarletdemon]

I imagine that things will improve as you get used to it. You have been burning a lot of nervous too, this week. Those coloured file dividers are better than sex to me BTW.

I want to be a Youth Minister! OK, there is that whole "believing in God" thing...But I should be allowed, dammit! I'm an excellent role-model for any young, aspiring, God-botherer!

[busy_body]

You can be a youth worker in a council run youth club - it will make a change from wrangling randy old men! It's true that in my case the young people at the youth club are a bit of a rough bunch - but that's why I like them. I like my church Youth group but they are all clean and shiny and polite. The youth club kids are dealing with life the hard way and need all the encouragement they can get. They do make me laugh though - they think I don't know what that funny sweet smell is that wafts in with them, and why it might be connected to the dilated pupil look they all have most of the time.

[malabar]

What, they hadn't noticed the two versions before?? They can't have been reading very carefully then.

Best of luck to you in your course! We need funky cool theologians!

[busy_body]

Mmm...it's a sad thing but some preachers come at it from the wrong end, i.e. this is what we believe and here's the verse to prove it, rather than encouraging their congregations to look at the whole text for themselves, and giving them the skills to do that honestly. My belief that God created everything comes straight out of Genesis, because I think that's what it's there for, but my first degree was Zoology so I know enough about evolution to understand what an amazing mechanism it is for creating the world as we see it, and I don't see the two ideas as conflicting.

[malabar]

Yeah, it's funny how people who say they believe the Bible literally get all offended when I expect them to know what it actually *says*... I guess they figure the Old Testament doesn't count or something. I meet a fair few alleged Christians who feel that way.