Posted by: Becca on: June 20, 2011
Sometimes it hits me hard, quick and hard, what I know about people’s lives now. That I know there are children that were systematically sexually and emotionally abused by their families. Children pimped out by their mothers for drugs. Children tied up in sheds fed like dogs. These sound like news stories, but the thing [...]
Posted by: Becca on: October 3, 2010
So, I’ve seen this link passed around, where a doctor states that our problem as a country is not that we need health care reform, but that we have a culture crisis of people that think “I can do whatever I want to because someone else will always take care of me”. He then follows [...]
Posted by: Becca on: May 6, 2010
Growing up in a Christian church, there was always a lot of talk about putting God first, making God a priority, and about denying ourselves our “selfish desires”. I think these two things contradict themselves for someone who has accepted the love of God into their lives. If now, God lives in me as love, [...]
Posted by: Becca on: March 31, 2010
A friend of mine posted this article today and it was just what I was looking for. See, after reading this article, posted by another friend, I’d been searching for that one more thing that would get me typing. If you’re too lazy to click the links and read, both articles deal with God, Christianity, [...]
Posted by: Becca on: March 24, 2010
“Horsefeathers. We are a society. We, as a society, decide to use our combined resources to provide certain services. If we, as a society, decide that healthcare should be one of those services, it is not theft anymore than universal policing is theft. If you choose not to support society, you are more than welcome [...]
Posted by: Becca on: March 23, 2010
So, I’m gonna get started on this now. I don’t want it to take me forever. I don’t want to obsess about it. I just want to say it. First of all, after some internet research, I found an article/blog that was just what I was looking for regarding health care. I don’t really care [...]
Posted by: Becca on: March 22, 2010
I don’t have a lot of time. Healthcare bill just passed. Just got annoyed reading people’s stupid (republican) facebook comments. What is so hard to understand about taking care of each other? About strenghtening communities as a whole? WHAT IS SO HARD ABOUT THAT? I really don’t understand. And not because I’m stupid. But because [...]
Posted by: Becca on: February 24, 2010
I have a different kind of blog tonight. Tonight, I am glad I have a place to blog because I have a string of thoughts going through my head that I’d much rather just editorialize than get into a conversation about at this point. Besides the fact that there is not one to have this [...]
Posted by: Becca on: January 21, 2010
I’d like to start this by stating that I don’t think I’ve ever actually used the phrase “Oh Snap”, but it popped into my head when I was thinking of a title, so, there it is. This week, after participating in a forum held at a church regarding the “resignation” of a popular preschool director, [...]
Posted by: Becca on: November 28, 2009
I know an increasing amount of people arguing against the commercialization of Christmas (besides Charlie Brown, of course). And I agree. In many ways, we have turned a day set aside to celebrate the birth (and subsequent life) of Jesus Christ, earthly God incarnate, something that could (should?) be a holy day for Christians into [...]
