The Hall of Fire

Voronwë_the_Faithful wrote:Would anyone be surprised if I said that the most spiritual moments that I experience are when I play drums?

No way! In fact I'd be surprised if you didn't feel that way when you play Music is an awesome way to feel spiritual .

I'm almost certain I dropped the "d" word first when describing my Mother and all that I meant by it was that she is waaaay stricter than I am and tends to give the church more credit whereas I put my foot down.

After reading your post Lurker it made me remember how I felt on Good Friday, during the stations of the cross. It can be very emotional, yet it's very cleansing.

I went to a Christian youth conference in 1998 and they had services where there was a speaker and one of the fellas (I forget his name but he's "known") held an alter call. And it was the most intense experience I've ever had. My friend took me up there and I was overwhelmed to tears. Tha...

hal, it just so happens that the Catholic church has a strong opinion about this topic. In other words, deal with it or bring another aspect to discuss

Alatar, the voice of reason. Great post, very logical

Like you, I am upset that the Catholic Church with regards to how they dealt with it but I'm not easily persuaded to abandon my beliefs just because it's not to my liking. Like gay marriage, I supported the move, but since I'm a traditionalist I said just as long as they don't get the church (any r...

I agree Prim! I just got off the phone with my devoute Mom we don't see eye to eye but she listens and offers her side. I feel much cooler now. Lurker, yes priests are human and I'm not being a very good Christian because I haven't found it in my heart to forgive the priests that preyed on the innoc...

The Catholic church is beyone broken, it's embarrassing. It's made me re-evaluate my entire relgious belief. I have faith in God, but I have VERY little faith in my church.

1. What religion/spirituality and denomination are you? I was raised Catholic. 2. Does that denomination have female religious (non-lay) leaders (priests, rabbis, ministers, etc)? Nope, but we do have nuns. 5. If no, would you prefer that your denomination ordain women? Why or why not? Absolutely! ...

I'm speechless. Lidless and Estel are most definately in my thoughts and prayers.








[Edited in usernames to replace real names. —Prim]

Thank you Voronwë

Chavez's speech, vison but thanks

I would imagine that people cheer because they don't really realize how many innocent lives are at stake. :( ETA: Voronwë, I'll read the article later as I have to run (work shmerk). Maybe I'm not being optimistic enough but this war has been going on for so long and neither side has made much if an...

[derail] OMG I did it, I finally hit the nail on the head, Jny you just made my day, scratch that my weekend! [/end derail]

Where might one find the speech in print? In all honesty I haven't read it but would like to

Bottom line politicians are politicians and they need to say whatever will make the masses happy. If that means calling the US President "satan" then so be it, as long as the crowd cheers. It was a tactical move. Right now the US is frowned upon in other countries...that is until they need...

Does this mean I can stop peddling on the streets now?

www.thecomicbookguys.com there isn't much there now but there will be soon!

It was way fun at the comic con and of course making money helped too

Erm...Catholics don't use the King James version. That was an English Protestant phenomena ;). The New American (NASB) and the Douay-Rheims are the two Catholic versions I am familiar with. The New American is similar to the NIV, and the Douay-Rheims is...more like the Revised Standard? I'm not sur...

I'm Catholic and they use the King James version and I knew straight away if I wanted to understand the Bible, King James was not the way to go. You all were ambitious, I tried reading the Bible when I was younger starting with Genesis. Emphasis on TRIED. So Halplm and I began with the Gospel accord...

Thank you Whistler! I'll have to check out the handbook as well. I was just telling halplm that as much as I love history I'm no good at it, but enjoy putting events into context .

Okay we ended up getting the Zondervan NIV Study Bible.

Where in the world do we start?