Randy Travis has a song called “Heroes and Friends” which features the line
Your heroes will help you find good in yourself.
which I thought of the other day whilst playing Ultimate Alliance. My husband and I both love video games but generally entirely different genres: he likes first-person-shooters and I like puzzle games. Aside from GTA […]

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Jana tagged me for this holiday meme, and it’s perfect for the little space between the end of my work day and the beginning of my paper-slaving for school projects due next week.
I’ve never been big on Christmas. As I got older, we emphasized the Japanese New Year’s (Oshogatsu) over the Christian holiday, though […]

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Those few of you who have seen me online know that I have many “available” messages including “Heretic”, “Portable Pagan” (my other computer had me as simply “Pagan”), “Sacralicious”, “2nd person of the Divine Trinity”, and the above, among others less incendiary. I had this particular one up and a friend of mine, who is […]

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My first two academicky publications are in print now!
I’m the *second author on Maturing and Enduring: Dialogue and Its Readers after Forty Years in the Winter 2006 issue of Dialogue, for my help in collecting and processing the survey data. The data shows that the Dialogue’s subscription based has aged by two decades in […]

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Apologies for the delay. The Remy family was booked yesterday, from 9am to 9pm. ‘Tis the season!
Once again, here are the candidates:

Excellent books, all, if the reviews are to be believed. One of the benefits of the nominating process is that it exposes us […]

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I brought chairs to a friend’s party last night and, after letting myself into her house, announced that I had chairs in my car, if people wanted to help. I got two people (perfect, there were six chairs), a guy and a gal. The gal got her two chairs and went inside. This post is […]

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I’ve had two major life-changing spiritual experiences. The first, at seventeen, helped propel me into the LDS Church. The second, some seventeen years later, eased me back out. The former was dominated by a sense of beauty, connection and purpose; because I was investigating the LDS Church at the time, I understood […]

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In which an struggling believer stumbles into spiritual darkness.
The most profound spiritual experiences tend to be described in positive, glowing terms. People talk of being saved, of “seeing the light,” of feeling love, or of feeling a deep sense of connection to God, the universe, to humanity. I don’t want to speak about […]

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I got emotional when I saw this picture (and read the revelation in this press release):

Goodbye, Mars Global Surveyor, you served us well.
Does anyone else get weepy over science, or am I just crazy that way?

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God in the comics:

This is in Swedish, I think, but you should still get the punchline.

God’s answer to the question of whether or not we alone in the universe.

Secular heaven (and Nicola Tesla’s mechanical hot pants).

God-Man’s righteous handling of an incoming prayer.

One way I like to picture God. This one gives me warm fuzzies.

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