Blogs

Is there any update on when the blogs will be available - I really want to have access to what I wrote over the last few years, there's some special stuff there that I don't have anywhere else, and it's lost to me completely now.

I can log in here to blogs, but can't log into the forum (tho thanks to Rhys for trying to help me).

But, where are all my other blogs? I'm devastated that they appear to have been lost. Is there any way they can be copied over, this was the only place I blogged and there's some special stuff I want to keep hold of.

I know it's nothing more awful than losing words and pictures, but I'm gutted all the same :(

Mayday, mayday. Can anybody hear me? I'm trapped in some sort of alternate reality where I can sort of log in, and sort of can't. I can apparently post this blog entry, but I can't reply to any threads. Can anybody hear me? Cross, please help. And I think Eeyore has the same problem. Won't a valiant knight come to my rescue? Or at least somebody who knows phpbb code?

Last Fall, the United Methodist Church, in its highest court called the Judicial Council, issued a judgment that a pastor has the sole authority to keep a gay man from obtaining membership in the UMC. While those of you in congregational systems may ask why this is a problem, the UMC is a connectional system whereby pastors are accountable to other pastors and bishops and such. Hence, this ruling violates the systems of accountability in the name of homophobia.  read more »

Healing services walk a fine line between healing and abusing people. Case in point: An American preacher is distributing pamphlets in Lesotho that call people to a healing service...which includes healing from AIDS.

LINK: Ernest Angley and the road to Hell in Lesotho

here's the handbill:
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The American Bible Society has cancelled an order of New Testaments to be handed out at adult entertainment conventions. The reason? The covers of the Bibles, made by XXXChurch, said in bold letters "Jesus Loves Porn Stars" and the Society deemed them "misleading and inappropriate for a New Testament."

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I've been hit with a new word!

Was watching the Colbert Report, and saw Tony Campolo on there. He mentioned that he refers to himself as a..."Red-Letter Christian."

Two minutes letter...BAM, a link sent to me to an article by Jim Wallis about..."Red Letter Christians."  read more »

Frank Miller, the artist/writer of Batman fame, is writing a new batman graphic novel...this time, the enemy is not the Joker or Riddler....but rather al Qaeda!

LINK: Holy Terrorism Batman!

However, Miller expounds on his reason for choosing al Qaeda.  read more »

Brokeback Mountain...seen it? It's about two gay cowboys who go through a few decades wrestling with their lives, and their families are wrecked as a result of their taboo love.

Well, here's where life imitates art. In my state of Oklahoma, a gay man whose partner died has now lost their ranch, estate, and everything because of the lack of spousal rights.  read more »

Planned Parenthood of Connecticut has a new line of keychains that subvert typical images of culture with funny incorporations of condoms to promore safe sex. One of them is the image of the Sistine Chapel.

Here's the image while it lasts:

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