I keep finding discussions where it's argued that pointing out anyone's sinful living is a favour done to them, a sign of true Christian love. Maybe it is. It also misses the point, and, incidentally, annoys the recipient. And I think it's not what we need.

I have heard it said, inside the various churches I have dropped by throughout the years, ( Read more... )

From iccucc.wordpress.com

"The Psalmist declares, 'God makes wars cease to the end of the earth.' By choosing forgiveness over revenge, gentleness instead of judgment, and love rather than bitterness, we cooperate with God in the formation of a world where there shall be no further use for weapons of any kind."

Entire text at http://iccucc.wordpress. ( Read more... )

As we are about to establish gender-neutral marriage in Sweden, some of the churches are having rather predictable conniptions. They claim not only that we are deserting our Christian heritage (symbolised by the 3-4% who attend church with any regulairty) but also that this is the end of our prosperity and peace. Disaster will strike us now that we ( Read more... )

This is a self-centered post, mostly because I have trouble dropping the ongoing RaceFail (the enormous number of really good entries which rydra_wong  is painstakingly compiling is making it very hard to withdraw, even if I wanted to), and because, like all privileged people, I should be checking my privilege. Sorry to make it All About Me, like so many  ( Read more... )

I have said before that my dog in this fight is a small yappy kind. Since I have the white privilege of walking away from discussions of racism whenever I feel like it, my dog can be small. Reading through the white privilege list provided by kita0610 , not to mention hearing stories of discrimination from my best friend (which, incidentally, made me first ( Read more... )

This entry comes out of the ongoing RaceFail09, but is not directly connected - I don't want to say inspired by, since 'inspirational' seems a deeply incorrect term, but perhaps 'triggered by' would be appropriate ( Read more... )

The current government's approach to education never ceases to amaze me: just when I thought they had reached the limit, I am again reminded that stupidity has no limits. Nor, it would appear, has their desire to return to an earlier and less equal era.

Sweden has free education all the way up to doctoral degrees. In addition, there has for a long ( Read more... )

I have not been posting much, and commenting sparsely, but two things have now annoyed me sufficiently that I feel the need to vent. I know I still don't understand much about racism, but some of it should be blatantly obvious to anyone who's ever opened a book on feminism.

One thing was reading davidlevine 's entry on writing CoC, and especially this comment ( Read more... )

Genre fiction book meme -
1) Look at the list, copy and paste it into your own journal.
2) Mark those you have read however you want.
3) Feel free to tell your friends what you thought of them.

I've bolded the ones I've read, and put in italics ones I've started but never finished or series I have only read partly.

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...that this is not me: http://lalouve.bloggagratis.se. How weird is it that two Swedish bloggers would use the same name? 
This isn't me either: http://lalouve.deviantart.com/, nor is the one on myspace or on Flickr.