Archive for February, 2012

What is OMG again?

Wednesday, February 29th, 2012

People aren’t always so sure what OMG is. It seems to me that it might not be so dumb, then, to bullet out a few broad descriptors. 1.  OMG is a blog. I write, and I invite readers to submit questions about theology, religion, Scripture and the intersection of any or all of these with, [...]

Anne Rice Redux

Tuesday, February 28th, 2012

Question: It may be semantics, but leaving church and leaving congregational religion may not be the same.  Consider–if I woman has been for whatever reasons in abusive marriage(s) and decides that marriage is not a good thing, that is not a declaration that all men are bad, but a declaration that marriage is not the [...]

Tenuousness and Tenacity and the Commencement of Lent

Tuesday, February 21st, 2012

It’s 8:04 on Tuesday morning, and I’m sitting in the waiting room at the hospital after just sending my son off to yet another surgery. I am somewhat ashamed that I don’t remember how many surgeries he’s had since the accident in 2004; maybe that’s because I hope that each one is the last one. [...]