Posts Tagged "Church"

Tonight was the ecumenical service, held at one of the local Ch’town catholic churches. Its a new building, oddly arranged but thats another story. What I thought as I stood there in service tonight looking at the statues of Mary and Christ and the burning prayer candles is that the more liturgical denominations create better ‘sacred spaces’. The ones where you can walk in mid-week, find a place to yourself in front of Mary  or Jesus (not that i believe we should pray in front of Mary or that she has any significance outside of being the mother of Christ…) and pray, or ponder your life and your spirituality quietly.  To their credit, they seem to create more of an experience for solitude and being alone with God.  Maybe its the statues...

A hot topic prophetically speaking (not necessarily bible prophecy) is the Mayan calendar, more specifically the long count calendar. Much of the world knows about this because of the 2012 end of the world prediction through this long count system, or at least the end of an era according to this calendar.   I like mysteries and conspiracies so I enjoy learning about these things whether they mean anything or not. What I like about really really old cultures and their stories / myths is that often you can see a hint if not more of the creation story. Often its long told stories of  a great flood that happened, recorded in the bible as Noahs flood, or stories about the creation of man, how the world was created. All those stories between cultures from one...

So I learned something today, which isn’t uncommon (the learning part) but it was something I never really thought of before in terms of doing for others. So this morning I, and a bunch of guys went and helped clean what is to become a mens shelter. I scrubbed walls, others swept, we moved some furniture, put up a tree. CBC video taped, someone from the local paper was there snapping photos of us all diligently scrubbing and sweeping, all for the Lord right?! For sure, it was needed and appreciated, and it is my holidays so it was a little out of my way but we did 1.5 hours of work, and called it a good day of ‘being Christ like’. Not to diminish it, it was work that many others just wouldn’t offer to do and its time out I could have spent...

Being an outspoken atheist pretty much ensures controversy and conversation on ones death, namely between the atheist camp and the christian one. I’ve seen various reactions on twitter from well known pastors, some with a tinge of ‘wink and nod and i told ya so’ and others with the the ‘christianese’ response of grace and politeness.   I am more outspoken FOR Christianity, maybe on the side of detriment, its hard to say. I waver between being the loving kind, never say anything that might be convicting christian and spewing out fire and brimstone speech and saying ‘I told you so’.  I have to bite my tongue in most cases. Usually because my speech either doesn’t really help anybody, or because it can / will...

Things are heating up in the middle east and europe. The economic meltdown is prompting Merkel and Sarkozy to consider a re-imagined EU that has strong central powers for economic policy. They are wanting to switch it from what it is now, more or less a loose collection of countries struggling under debt and some using the EURO as their fiat money, to a super state controlling the economy more directly. This means countries involved would need to agree to losing more sovereignty and they are almost all willing to now that the economy is so bad, no one has jobs etc. The EU sees that the time is right to make a grab for greater powers saying that its the only way the economy can be fixed. And they mean that they will be able to keep the economy afloat for another...