The Incongruent Believer

.... I was quite shocked to read the other day an article from USA Today announcing "London Breed to be sworn in as San Francisco's first black female mayor." What shocked me in that headline is the Ms Breed was referred to as "black" and surely that wasn't acceptable language in country that for a long time had preferred to use the term "African American." This got me to thinking (a dangerous pastime I know) about the use of Black and White to describe someones ethnicity and my deliberations were even more of a shock to me than that USA Today article and subsequently made that article even more shocking. But let me start at the beginning of my thoughts: Black and white is not an accurate way to describe the colour of ones skin! I'm not white, i'm a sort of browny, pinky, blemished, hairy kind of colour. I could never have been described using a colour in the same way as one wouldn't describe glass as white. It just doesn...

Been a while since I last blogged and Episode III has been playing on my mind. Whether the account of Luther nailing his 95 thesis to the door of the church in Wittenberg is legend or fact, I personally (and I emphasis the "personally") believe that Luther was not trying to create a split in the church or a spin-off of denominations. No! He was merely trying to get the Church to reform, to get it to act against power and money-mad priests, bishops and Popes who were using their position of almost absolute authority to line their own pockets and solidify their own position of power, which in turn allowed them to line their own pockets ever more so. If he was around today I believe he would be horrified at the consumer nature of the church, that people are able to pick and choose what type of church they would like to be a part of (serious, happy-clappy, spirit-filled carpet-junkies), or that blended religion was also available (Buddhist Christian Mother-Earth anyone?).  As I...