Archive for June, 2011
Raised or Razed from the Dead? Weekend Workshop to Consider What Happens When You Die
Monday, June 20th, 2011Come join OMG on September 23-24 for a workshop about heaven and hell. We’ll look at several different theological systems of belief, and how they shape their believers’ views about heaven and hell. The agenda will not be to stake a claim on one conclusion or another, but will be to better understand why different [...]
The saints behind June 19, June 20, June 22, June 23
Sunday, June 19th, 2011This week is a personal doozy. June 19th: 7 year anniversary of the accident which killed my first husband, and which gave Karl his awful traumatic brain injury. June 20th of that year (June 19th this): Father’s Day. That year, I had actually bought ahead of the day a fancy Swiss Army knife for Bill [...]
Holy Adjectives! Pentecosty Musings
Saturday, June 11th, 2011The Spirit is a tough one for many of us (northern European) Protestants to wrap our minds around..or to be wrapped around by, frankly (pardon the dangling prepositions). It’s too nebulous (which comes from the same word nebulosus [as does nebula and nebulizer] which means cloudy, veiled, foggy, vapory). But my seminary mentor Walt Bouman [...]
Göbekli Tepe and Godspots
Saturday, June 4th, 2011Göbekli Tepe appears to be c. 11,600 years old. That’s before Stonehenge. Before the Great Pyramid. Wowza. ___________ Every Thursday, I enjoy an hour-long phone conversation with an OMG-er in Texas. Interestingly, we often end up agreeing on many things, but how we get there sure differs. That’s o.k. I think that our well-considered differences [...]
