https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/20...arrested-in-sexual-assault-investigation.html This one hits closer for us because we knew people who worked in that church, and who were forced to leave because they refused to keep quiet. This one was a long extended effort to keep everyone quiet, and when I read things like: I really have to wonder about how honest these people are being. And it pisses me off to no end that here I am worried about my circumstances, and every jackass in town is pastoring up and drinking, drugging and sexually abusing their way through their congregations.
Our Sunday School class is working through the book of Judges at the moment and our most recent session was looking at signs of spiritual decay. The author was saying how it's ironically sometimes easier to handle poverty than it is to handle prosperity, simply because we're more likely to cry out to God when we need something but when we've apparently got it all we're more likely to figure we did it on our own.
On a lighter note, my 13 year old was linesman for a U12 soccer game and had the head coach of one of the teams yellow carded. The coach was being a miserable person and making derogatory comments about the refs (all 13 year olds)..So he had enough, called the ref and asked him to card him. The mentor ref (an adult) talked to me after he game and commented aboutt how impressed he was at how my son handled it and was willing to stand up to an adult. My wife was high-fiving him when she heard the story..
Maybe he was just having a bad day. His team was getting killed by the other team as well. Regardless, consistently muttering about the refs and rules, especially in a virtually meaningless U12 game, is not a good look.
Sorry to hear that Teddy - even though the term "palliative care" doesn't leave much scope for someone recovering it doesn't make it any easier when the inevitable happens
It's..... it's.... It's pitiful when all they do is pan over the same single frame and try to convince you it's video.
It could be a chupacabra, or it could be some joker wearing a wolf head. Cue lots of copycat "wolfman" stunts as the idea spreads...
Getting the next room prepared for a rebuild. I've got most of the ceiling pulled down with the insulation replaced with fiberglass. I need to patch a couple of holes in the walls, fit insulation panels to the walls, and shim out the studs. There's a section I did a year or so ago where I fitted panels but didn't run the angle grinder to smooth off the walls. I don't feel like dealing with that now everything else is done so I'll just shim out the studs a little. I'll only need to add 1/4" or so - I'd need a little bit of a buffer anyway to give the sound deadening material space to move a little, so it's not a big deal. For good measure the space in question is inside what will be a closet, so losing 1/4" really doesn't matter at all.
I've been praying lately about what I should be doing with myself, and one of the questions was whether I should seriously write. I've had more than a few random people tell me I should write, so should I consider that coincidental or take the hint?
On the nature of gender dysphoria for the Christian individual who has soteriological/eschatological/theological/etc. concerns. Mostly I'm thinking about a kind of self-justification for my own experience and directed somewhat at family but in the hopes of it being more broadly applicable.