A sharply divided California Supreme Court today legalized same-sex marriage, a historic ruling that will allow gay and lesbian couples across the state to wed as soon as next month and inflame the social, political and moral debate over gay unions. In a 4-3 ruling written by Chief Justice Ronald George, the Supreme Court [...]

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I’d intended to have another blog entry up by today but mid-day I took a flight to the Pacific Northwest to spend a few days with my mom and so most of the day has been spent packing, departing, flying, arriving, and loving on mom. I pulled my laptop from my messenger bag only a [...]

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I remember seeing the words “morbidly obese” on my medical chart for the first time when I was in the sixth grade. Though I didn’t fully understand what the words meant I pieced together it wasn’t good. No one had ever called me “obese” before, but as the biggest girl in all my elementary [...]

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Incoming metaphor! Stop, drop, and roll.
I’ve only entered two other races in my short “athletic” career. I completed a half-marathon a couple summers ago which turned out to be a miserable experience due to ridiculously hot weather that slowed me to a pace considered competitive only among potato bugs. By the time I crossed the [...]

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This weekend I’m in Monterey Bay for the Big Sur International Marathon and no, I’m not putting 26.2 miles on these precious piddy-pats of mine, particularly since the route follows Hwy 101 along the coast between Big Sur and Carmel making for one ridiculously hilly course. Instead I’m going to be sashaying my sweet little [...]

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For several months I’ve been following a blog by John Shore called Suddenly Christian. John won me over to his blog with his incredibly quirky sense of humor but in short order it was his heart for God that had me jonesin’ for his newest entries.
Yesterday I was working away on an upcoming entry that [...]

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Jon over at The Ongoing Adventures of ASBO Jesus has done
in one illustration what would take me a thousand words to say…or more.
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I want to get your input on something so feel free to tell me what you think.
I was wondering if there would be any benefit to me occasionally providing an audio track of me reading some of my blog entries. The way it would look is that the blog entry would be posted like usual [...]

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I’d been a children’s pastor in a large conservative evangelical church for about a dozen years and my big “I’m a lesbian!” self-revelation was still two years in the future. On one of my errand days for the church I stopped off at Elmer’s Flag and Banner Store to pick up flags to be used [...]

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Turn up the volume and click the right arrow to hear what is the one most true thing.
["You Are Being Loved" by Steven Curtis Chapman from his album "This Moment"]

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