Recent content by brainisengaged

Just for the record, I remain unvaccinated and I've had Covid and have no long term ill effects that I am aware of. Anectodal evidence that it makes no difference one way or the other to have gotten the shot(s).

One of my college students, fully vaccinated, just had covid and didn't have an easy time of it. No hospital, but a solid two weeks of feeling quite ill and now residually quite weak. Young, healthy. I am unvaccinated, had Omicron, barely more than a bad cold. And I'm old. I seriously cannot...

I hope Calhoun Tubbs stays on Spotify...

Deck The Halls! Merry Christmas!

and there was an article in NPR yesterday that now in China, when someone goes into quarantine for Covid, workers in hazmat suits go into the home and exterminate the family pets. In incredibly cruel ways, I might add.

I found this one to be very convincing. https://www.banned.video/watch?id=6119a5c55f9bed525db38b7f&fbclid=IwAR1BNO7TinXDcsVtxfnuyUrvDTaq0X_kBEt83rYEX92BIkRsrpP_DBQ6AiI

It's different in my world. I am increasingly made to feel either as if I have the scarlet letter, I am a witch or I am a leper / pariah. Before I could return to work, I had to fill out a form stating whether or not I am vaccinated. If you chose to decline to answer, it is considered a "no". At...

I am currently working out my understanding of this chapter. In fact,  my pastor is currently teaching from it. Romans 8 reached its powerful conclusion:  "For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to...

...but I would be leery as well, if someone views the potential of friendship with the pastor and the ability to  feel like a part of his family as a determining factor of whether to join a church? Pastor worship was a hard habit to break after all my FBC Hammond years.

Talented vocalist. Very! Not a deeply educated musicologist, so the earlier eras weren't truly captured, nor were the subtle evolutions of harmonic structure clearly delineated. Bach opened the floodgates, so to speak, with his brilliant use of the tritone. But an accapella arrangement will...

Have to confess to not fully, carefully reading the article posted by the OP. Skimmed it... These discussions remind me of people who think they know how other people should interact with their spouse. Two wives are at their husband's softball game. Wife No. 1 cheers loudly whenever her...

I don't know how it happened. No details. But, BALAAM is in heaven.

No, I tried to stay at FBC for a while. First, for a year after it all broke with JS. Give it a year, see how it goes and how it is handled. Then, for a year with Pastor Wilkerson. Finally, after having given it all that time and much prayer,  I left. I had to get a different perspective that I...

I believe Sword makes a valid point. As a lay person at FBC, I knew none of the behind-the-scenes machinations, yet  I felt dirty for having been there and I felt so guilty for not having had discernment.  I needed to step away for healing and soul-searching and to gain perspective. Surely the...

I think he is trying to say that it would be a much bigger crowd if all of the "Transformer Kids Club" kids and workers were actually in the service. It's also summer, so the college students are not there and attendance always dipped in the summer for that reason. Additionally, there are more...