I was reminded of this again today, and felt the need to share it. These are entries from my great-great Grandma Annie (Howard) Van Horn's diary during her daughter Flora's illness and death from Diphtheria in August of 1903. Warning for Saddest Thing Ever.

( No, I'm serious. You will cry. )

Posting this here so that I don't lose track of it before I remember to write it down somewhere else. This is my latest baking experiment. It turned out very well ( Read more... )

Why the hell am I reviewing a low-budget monster movie from more than a decade ago? Because it's fucking awesome, that's why! OK, so the props and the special effects are mostly not-great to the point of looking a bit ridiculous, and the plot stretched my suspension of disbelief in some places, and horror isn't even one of my genres, but you know ( Read more... )

I haven't been wanting to think about this (because I love my tiny purple Ford Ranger), but I probably should. My current vehicle is 14 years old and is over 130,000 miles, so it's sort of inevitable that, sooner or later, I will need something new (or newish). The question is, what ( Read more... )

Pastor Mark Driscoll of Mars Hill Church in Seattle claims that a man once tried to attack him with a machete while he was preaching. I keep seeing people reference this incident online, but no one offered a source on the story, and no eyewitnesses ever seemed to corroborate. So I decided to do a little investigative journalism to satisfy my ( Read more... )

I read a lot of blogs about religion and a lot of blogs about women's issues, as well as several that cover a combination of the two. I've read several posts recently about the problem of hell, i.e., infinite punishment for finite sin, and I suddenly had the thought that there might be some connection between that and the way conservative ( Read more... )

How telling is this? Watch Mark Driscoll dismiss any and all criticism of him as something to "attack"; not something with any validity.

ChurchLeaders.com: Is there any one critic that you really want to respond to? Have you seen any criticism come in that made you say, "That’s a good point, and I need to deal with this”?

Driscoll: Well, I wouldn ( Read more... )

I just spent waaaaaaay too long revamping my page of Mars Hill links. It's still not terribly pretty, but it's more organised, and it's easier to tell what links go where. I know no one else is as obsessed with this as I am, but feel free to browse and use the page as a resource.

As some of you may know, Mark Driscoll, the preaching pastor of Seattle's Mars Hill Church, released a new book about marriage this past week, co-authored with his wife, Grace. There have already been several very thoughtful reviews of this book posted around the web by everyone from avowed feminists to complementarians. Here are a few of the best ( Read more... )

In 2012, ( Read more... )