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Blog entries by Spinning Compass
Last Sunday we honored the congregation's high school graduates. From beginning to end the service was planned and run by the young people. This year they chose to put on a play based on a Chinese folk tale about a farmer whose luck alternated between good and bad. We, the townspeople, took...
This morning while driving to work I heard a snippet of an interview on NPR with a middle-aged African-American man whose education had been cut short when he was a teenager due to poverty. He talked of a life spent in hard manual labor. Now, his goal was to learn to read well enough to get...
As if to mock me, the other day I got an advertisement in the mail for Marlo Thomas' new book, "It Ain't Over, Reinventing Your Life and Realizing Your Dreams Anytime at Any Age." This book promises to show you how you can follow your dreams through the example of "50 amazing women who are...
I have been in a depressed mood ever since I saw the career counselor and took the aptitude test. Let's just say that like many Aspies, my interests and likes are directly inversely proportional to their marketability. In other words, if it's a high-paying, high-demand career, I am not likely...
Well, I am officially graduated. For some reason people seem to think that walking across a stage and picking up a cardboard roll means that your whole life is going to change in all these wonderful and fantastic ways. "And what are you going to do now?" I get asked. The same thing I have...
This Sunday at church they had a professor of economics talk about inequalities. The church I am in is big into social justice and stuff like that.
Anyway this professor went on and on about the fabled "one percent" that holds most of the wealth in the United States. You know, people like...
A while back I wrote about the movie "God is Not Dead". I still haven't seen it nor do I plan to, for the reasons I wrote about before.
It seems that the reason this movie is popular among Christians, even those who do not identify with the evangelical movement, and who would never consider...
So what is the thing that that those claiming that blood moons are part of Biblical prophecy leaving out? I'll give you a clue.
In Acts Chapter 2, starting in verse 5, it says that there were people in Jerusalem from "every country in the world." (Good News Translation) or "out of every...
The latest buzz in the Evangelical world is all about the four blood moons that are supposed to take place this year and next. Blood moons, from what I understand, are a rare astronomical phenomenon that are connected to the amount of dust in the atmosphere and the angle of light hitting the...
Remember the controversy that erupted over the sign language "interpreter" at Nelson Mandela's funeral? Apparently the hand gestures and arm motions he was making did not belong to a recognized sign language, and that's what caused the furor. The Deaf community was displeased to say the very...
It was announced on the news today that the body of Dr. Teleka Patrick was found in an Indiana lake not far from where her car went off the highway. She had been missing since December 5. During that time her private life and tweets were put on public display, raising questions about Internet...
Well, the conflict resolution came and went and it was not nearly as painful as I feared; though it seems the story has changed yet again, that the matter was not taken out to the church at large by a certain person (who did not attend), but only to the pastor. This surprised me as the group...
Well, after much, much, much pleading by the Sunday evening Bible group leader, I have consented (although unwillingly) to appear before the group for a conflict resolution meeting. I am not optimistic about the results and I have already moved on in my mind.
What started the furor were two...
I am still scratching my head over my recent midterms experience. One of them was a take-home test, handed out well in advance of spring break, to be turned in the following Monday. It was only 32 multiple choice questions. I managed to complete mine in 15 minutes, so I didn't think it was...
I see where Westboro Baptist Church has been in the news lately; it seems that its founder recently passed away and so they are facing a where do we go from here moment. I have to confess I only know of the WBC by reputation (and it isn't good!) so I don't know if this is a one-family church or...
Well, it looks like I will be parting ways with my friends from my old church. I knew this was going to happen sooner or later, I just didn't know when or how. I knew I'd been living on borrowed time with them ever since I left to join the Unitarian-Universalists, so this new development comes...
Yesterday I wrote about the Illinois Republican (my bad, should have checked google) who has been going around saying that God is using autism and tornadoes to punish the US for supporting gay rights. It's actually far worse than that as one of my respondents pointed out. Macular degeneration...
Have you heard the latest about what causes autism? Apparently there is a high-ranking woman Republican down in Texas (I can't remember her name) who is going around saying that autism and tornadoes are God's punishment on the United States for embracing gay rights. Honestly. I am beginning...
The other day in class I was blown away by something one of my classmates said to me. Before I say what it was that she said, I will describe her. She is a Muslim and wears a headscarf. Ah, yes, one of those oppressed women who are forever destined by her religion to live a second-class life...
Once again, religiously-sanctioned discrimination raises its ugly head, this time in Arizona where legislation is actually being considered to allow business owners to refuse to serve gay people. At this writing it's not sure if it will go through, but if it does, I have some questions for the...