bleargh

[kellinator]

I have a sinking feeling that dropping by the library on Sunday just to check email and read LJ is LAME.

Oh well.

After weeks of attempting it and failing, I actually made it to church this morning -- Clairmont Presbyterian. I liked it, but I'm not sure yet if I'll join. No need to rush, and I'd like to find one with a good amount of people my age. (Probably not too likely, come to think of it.) It was a nice change from the Southern Baptists to see women assisting with Communion.

Off to wreak some mayhem. On second thought, maybe just to watch The Godfather Part II with Tim.

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[queenbookwench.livejournal.com]

The PCA at least has a sense of the importance of intellect in Christianity, although I think they define it too narrowly, i.e. trying to create a big universal intellectual framework for _everything_, when really neither the Bible nor Christianity fits into that really. I did get from Calvinism the idea that secular and spiritual aren't separate and compartmentalized-rather one's faith should permeate the whole of life. I know what you mean about the whole woman thing though--when I was a sophomore in college, I took a wonderful class called "culture, myth, and education" taught by a female professor, a former southern baptist turned buddhist/unitarian. Each of us in the class had our own personal topic we were exploring...mine ended up being "women's spirituality" and I ended up reading "The Dance of the Dissident Daughter" by Sue Monk Kidd, and "The Church and the Second Sex" by Mary Daly, and for the first time I felt really furious, and seriously considered whether I would be better off apart from Christianity...clearly, I ultimately decided otherwise, but still, it was an illuminating experience for me.