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Blog entries by Spinning Compass
Last Sunday at small group we watched the movie "Luther" in honor of Reformation Sunday and afterwards had quite a lively discussion about it. I found myself in the interesting position of a Catholic explaining Luther to a bunch of Evangelicals who had very little knowledge of that crucial...
I don't know how many of you saw the YouTube video of the seven-year-old boy being pushed into the bus window by the bus monitor. It happened in a small town not far from where I live and has aroused nationwide controversy.
Now I only caught bits and pieces of the very blurry video but...
Last Sunday we read from Galatians 6 where Paul tells his readers that you reap what you sow. You might call it the law of karma or what goes around comes around. Anyway, I totally agree with him (for once!) that what you put in your mind is just as important as what you put in your body. You...
I have been watching Hurricane Sandy's track up the east coast and as usual the Weather Channel seems to be trying to outdo itself in the level of hysteria it can arouse. At this point I don't know if they are crying "wolf" or Sandy is as big of a threat as they claim.
Usually I don't really...
Well, I finally got to see the Hand Specialist. What a waste of time! Turns out she is the female version of Dr. Worthless.
I guess I should have done my homework before I went so that I would at least know what to expect. Not that it probably would have done any good. She left me waiting...
Here's a hypothetical situation.
Supposing you had a revulsion to green beans. I don't mean simply I don't like green beans, but you are downright revolted by them. Now say you just started working at a job that required a professional standard of conduct.
So you go into the cafeteria...
We've been talking a lot about chains in my church's small group, as in what are you chained to? What is holding you back? It started out after one of the assistant pastors mentioned in a sermon that Paul was chained to a Roman guard 24/7 when he wrote some of his letters. He asked us to...
Last night I went to a talk on autism given by Dr. Joshua Diehl, who is an assistant professor of psychology at Notre Dame University. Dr. Diehl is also the director of the For Understanding Neurodevelopment Laboratory there.
The meeting was held at a local high school and was sponsored in...
Pastor is on vacation so yesterday one of his assistants preached the sermon. It was based on the line "Thy Kingdom Come" in the Lord's Prayer (Our Father for Catholics).
While he went into a lot of detail and rummaging around in the Bible, in my opinion he left out the most important thing...
It seems nowadays everywhere you look, "natural" is in. We are told that we Westerners in particular live in an unnatural, unsustainable society. There are even some who eagerly await its collapse so that we can all go back to living the way we ought to be. In their eyes the Original Sin was...
The country station that I listen to just finished their annual fundraising drive to combat child abuse. They've been doing this for about 20 years now. People call in pledges and others call in with their stories. Some are pretty heartbreaking.
Forty years ago, when abortion (excuse me...
Well, today was an interesting sermon. I was mentally counting how long it would take Pastor to get around to the main point of today's scripture reading which was about circumcision. You could tell he wasn't comfortable with the topic especially in a mixed audience. It took him well over...
I've been reading a book by Mary Schiavo, who was former Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Transportation. I can't remember the entire title but I think it's called "Flying Safer, Flying Smarter" or something like that. It's about the airline industry and the FAA. What's interesting...
Sunday night I did something a bit unfair. When the moderator asked if anyone had any questions before moving on to the pre-approved questions I said yes. What was my question? In light of Pastor's sermon about Abraham and Sarah taking matters into their own hands instead of waiting on God to...
When we were studying the Book of Acts one thing that just didn't make sense is how violently the Jewish leaders reacted to Paul's message. The standard explanation is that they didn't like him saying that the Messiah had already come in the form of Jesus. But Jewish history is full of...
Today Pastor preached on the second half of the fourth chapter of Paul's letter to the Galatians. Paul is upset because people have been coming around telling his Gentile converts they have to keep the Jewish law in its entirety to be saved. Ever since his experience on the Damascus Road, Paul...
There has been an update in the Milton Hall case. Milton Hall was the homeless mentally ill African-American who was shot to death by Saginaw police after threatening them with a knife. You might say it's Michigan's Trayvon Marvin case.
There were six officers involved in the shooting...
Recently a comment was made on one of the forums that "dark age treatments" that force people on the spectrum to deny who they are and adopt normal modes of behavior is somewhat like what was done to Native American and Aboriginal children who were stripped of home and culture and made over into...
Yesterday Pastor preached a sermon against superficiality. He says we all need to get more involved with each other and be more "authentic". He gave as an example someone asking how you are and you just say fine. Fine apparently isn't good enough. We need to open up more, share our emotions...
Recently Saginaw. Michigan has been in the news because police shot and killed a homeless mentally ill African-American man named Milton Hall who was threatening people with a knife. According to news reports the police (who were white) took 47 shots to bring Hall. The investigation has...