Aaaawwwwwweeee…. She’s cute!
No apologies necessary, but thanks for letting us know about the soon to new family member.
Safe travels for all of you. I hope Daffy is a good traveling companion, with no Uh-ohs on the way home!

I wanna know – if you ever adopt a boy dog, whatcha gonna name him? Narcissus? There must be more flowers with male names!

Nancy2(aka Kevlar),

Bud…

I talked to my daughter a little while ago. She had to have one of their dogs put to sleep today – Levi, a black Lab they adopted from the animal shelter in spring of 2014.
He was 4 years old when they adopted him. He had been in the shelter a while and was one or two days away from being put down then. No one wanted him – until my son-in-law saw him.
We all hate that Levi had to leave this world……. but, ahhh, he had it so good for 10 years!

Levi was about as smart as a box of rocks. And, when they adopted him, he showed classic signs of having been abused, but he was a still such a good natured sweetheart!
Even today, daughter and hubby do not regret the fact that they adopted him and made him a part of the family.

Nancy2(aka Kevlar),

Sounds to me like your daughter and hubby practice real McCoy (Christianity).

Nancy2(aka Kevlar): No apologies necessary, but thanks for letting us know about the soon to new family member.
Safe travels for all of you. I hope Daffy is a good traveling companion, with no Uh-ohs on the way home!

That. 🙂

Best wishes to the new dog and the whole household!

Of course, if pug Daffy waddles a bit sometimes or acts wacky or looney, you can call her Daffy Duck. LOL

Oops, finding her. :-;

Jeffrey J Chalmers,

Well, she is a daughter of Stan, after all!

The pups and the kits, they manipulate us with their cuteness!

If I can ask a sincere inquiry and start a completely different discussion: (hopefully this is the proper time and place): After being burnt by a church that you’ve put 100% of yourself into, what are the pros and cons of “reviewing” the church online (say like, Google reviews or Yelp)? I recently saw my previous woman-hating church being reviewed on Yelp by current members who wrote glowing reviews and how marvelous the church and pastor is, and it got me thinking, is it a good idea to post my own review? Maybe under a pseudonym? And I wouldn’t want to post something that made personal attacks on the pastor, and I wouldn’t want to say something that I don’t have evidence of, but maybe something that had more of a word of caution to those thinking about attending said church, as in, why does this pentecostal church not make it known on their website that they’re “complementarian” or announce that they’re part of calvinistic TGC? I’m mulling over my motives for doing this: is it a type of revenge on my part? Or is my motive really to warn others? I don’t know at this point. The thing is, you can be part of a church for quite a while before you figure out their theology isn’t what you thought it was, so why do they hide some things and fail to disclose it on the “OUR BELIEFS” tab on their website so that everyone can know up front? I think prospective attendees should get a clearer picture of the church before attending. I think about newcomers who would feel so welcomed by the over-the-top love bombing only to be used and controlled over time, and perhaps they should hear a word of caution. I also feel like I was reviewed and critiqued for years by this church, so maybe I should just return the favor and review them. Has anyone done this before? What are some possible negative consequences? I don’t believe I’m interested in “revenge”, I just don’t like that they’re operating “under the radar” and leading people to believe they’re something that they’re not.

What does TWW community think?

Ariel,

Great question… One that all us that post on TWW should ask now and then….
I am NOT at all telling you what to do, but I post my name realizing that I should “own” what I say…. It definitely helps keep me from saying things I could regret…

Even more Southern Baptist hypocrisy on women pastors: last year, Baptist Press trumpeted MBTS VP John-Mark Yeats securing the presidency of Corban University in Oregon:

https://www.baptistpress.com/resource-library/news/education-digest-john-mark-yeats-to-lead-corban-university-bowling-named-acting-president-of-northern-seminary/

“His appointment follows a 7-month search conducted by the Presidential Search Committee comprised of select Corban University trustees, faculty, staff, alumni, and students. Dr. Yeats will step into this new role as president after having previously served in a multifaceted role as Vice President of Student Services, Dean of Students and Student Success, Title IX Coordinator, and Professor of Church History at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and Spurgeon College in Kansas City, Missouri.”

NOT reported was the embarrassing fact that the chair of Corban’s presidential search committee was a woman pastor!

https://www.corban.edu/presidential-search-update/

Corban University is historically related not to Southern Baptists, but to a northern Fundamentalist group, the General Association of Regular Baptist Churches.

The GARBC itself is on record strongly opposing women pastors, yet it held its 2023 national meeting at Corban University which has a woman pastor trustee. And the recently announced nominee to be the next GARBC National Representative, Clare Jewell [yes that is a man], “teaches Missional Living at Corban University in Salem, Oregon”:

https://www.garbc.org/about/

Awkward!

Congratulations on Daffy! I’m looking at a bouquet of daffodils right here in the living room.

Looking forward to the review/interview of Christa Brown. Baptist News Global is on top of this too, and has posted about her book and an upcoming interview.
https://baptistnews.com/article/next-bng-webinar-features-christa-brown-sexual-abuse-reform-advocate/

Christa’s website Stop Baptist Predators is still up, outdated but a good resource.
https://stopbaptistpredators.org/index.htm

Ariel,

Everything christianity bosses and their groupies say, they themselves disclaim as “only advertising”. Is some One going to say to them one day, “depart from Me ye who were only advertising”? The problem is in the doctrine because they blasphemed the Holy Spirit Who would be in each child, and too. away from This Boo..

(Excuse .eyboard quir. – too much tea spilling – at least I’m ahead of the Christmas Angel who said Noel!)

Max,

The turn to materialism in the Anglo-American “spiritual” ethos occurred around 1800 perhaps. The guilt of self-describing “conservatives” (deluded that they still “need” scramble for political power) derives from they and their fathers’ having literally wed to muscular christianity / john-wayne-jesus.

Jerome,

Disgracing the name of Spurgeon.

Proper Reformed: Arminius (honestly a proper calvinist), J .nox, Spurgeon, MLJ, D Pawson. Not so: Calvin (politician), J Edwards, R C Sproul, J Stott (insightless browbeaters)

Wesley remar.ed to Wilberforce that humanitarian wor.s such as education, BY CHRISTIANS not centred in Holy Spirit strength will gradually wea.en because agnostics, who are sincere, sense subliminally the example of dumbing down, but are heartened when Christians don’t thieve reason and agency.

Nancy2(aka Kevlar),

“Grace” and “gracious” are unli.ely to be read as ironic red flag words; I suggest “erectly”. Quietly = rationing truth from needy ears: how about “sparingly”?

Mentioning the TGC perspective is a good move and it implies (the true) bald objectivity on your own part as logical readers will spot.

You’ve got to punch as hard as the ghouls do from their status, but so as they are left not .nowing whether they noticed, or not.

If you professed to be “this humble reviewer” it would come over as a 100 % concession (copying the flun.eys) since that milieu doesn’t revolve around actual senses of words.

Nancy,

For ‘patiently’ I thin. you need ‘redolently’.

Use all different words on the next review site and put in ‘unctuously’ that time.

And ‘winsomely’ is excellent for below the belt but only in combination with more theology-neutral choices.

Most importantly, get yourself a life because no-one will need to read that in the next one! Some people told each other about Pascal’s wager to scare each other; I tell the whole gospel (Ascension and gifts unvetoed; the .ingdom of heaven as criterion of sin M. 9:39, I Pe 4) as simply an offer.

R’as al Ghul: But when confronted on it, Noem and many so-called “Christians” defended her actions. I wonder if they would defend Ted Bundy the same way.

I have had nothing to do with their ‘religion’ for many years now.
It’s sick, twisted, and based on control freakery.

R’as al Ghul: Unlike the popular with Evangelicals governor of South Dakota (and potential GOP VP pick), Kristi Noem, who personally executed her 14 month old German Shorthair Pointer with a shotgun blast simply because she hated it and grew tired of it. The dog was too “aggressive” and she could not be bothered to properly train a dog that IS SPECIFICALLY BRED TO GRAB BIRDS. But when confronted on it, Noem and many so-called “Christians” defended her actions.

This surfaced today on Wondering Eagle’s blog:
https://wonderingeagle.wordpress.com/2024/04/27/my-father-would-have-cried-realizing-how-deeply-lost-some-christians-are/
Seneca (you remember him) is trolling over there defending the CHRISTIAN Governor of SD; Jack and Ras Al’Ghul are counter-trolling him.