Things tagged with religion:

It’s the year 2004, a time of innocence. A gentle Spring day and I’m hanging around a university campus following around the girl I had no chance with but trying to play it all cool and casual. We’re a world and an eon away from the Kansas school board, the link between dwindling pirate populations…

I attended mass on Sunday. I’m not Catholic, if you’ve forgotten. I’m probably not enough of anything to claim membership of any religious movement. I’m spiritual but I shy away from organized groups of anything. In addition to religious groups, I also avoid groups based on sports, hobbies, politics, geographic localities and the vast majority…

Mother and I toured the temples in Springvale recently. My father’s father I greeted my grandfather and again I was a little surprised by how young he is in his photo. I knew him as a much older man. I met some uncles and an aunt; maybe for the first time since I was too…

Thanks to things such as religious family groups with political agendas, creationism in schools and a host of other things rooted in greed and blind faith rather than moral and ethics, I mentally flinch around the word “Christian”. And that’s a shame; it really is. Our school priest was a funny guy I grew up…