BIC: For Her

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BRAIN OVERLOAD

Soooooo many things running through my head right now. So many rants. So many ideas. So many questions.

And unfortunately, so much homework to stifle them all with.

Praying for some small breaks this week that allow my brain to blow up (in really great ways).

Is Justice Worth It?

Micah Bournes, ladies and gentlemen.

Just Be

I want to learn how to cultivate more of the kind of life Eugene Peterson lives. It reeks of trust.

"Stay in your cell. Your cell will teach you everything."

From Today's Common Prayer

          Frederick Douglass wrote in his autobiography, "Between the Christianity of this land, and the Christianity of Christ, I recognize the widest possible difference — ​so wide, that to receive the one as good, pure, and holy is of necessity to reject the other as bad, corrupt, and wicked. I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ; I therefore hate the corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial and hypocritical Christianity of this land. Indeed, I can see no reason, but the most deceitful one, for calling the religion of this land Christianity."

Texts from My Grammatically Correct Best Friend

10:49 - "Before I wish you a wonderful night friend, (blah blah other unimportant stuff)"

10:50 - "A wonderful night, friend... Not a wonderful night friend. That sounds scandalous."

Grace

"For grace to be grace, it must give us things we didn't know we needed and take us places where we didn't know we didn't want to go." --Kathleen Norris

Commercialism, Christian Theology, and Cupcake Mosaics

Aka, a great day.

1. There's this student of the month board in one of the buildings on campus that, according to the frequency with which it is usually updated, is more like a student of the semester board. Surprisingly, they updated the sociology student of the month for February, so I was reading my friend's bio, and laughed really hard at this wonderful tidbit. Because it's entirely true:

(I'm beyond the point of being able to tell if this is only funny to sociology students or not. So apologies if it's not as amusing to you.)

2. This quote from my theology class:   

' Israel worshipped a God who could grow angry, who changed his mind, a God involved in history, who cared so much about one group of people that their apostasies drove him to fits of impatience.  The greatest philosophers of Greece spoke of an unchanging divine principle, far removed from our world, without emotion, unaffected by anything beyond itself.  Improbably enough, Christian theology came to identify these two as the same God.  This may be the single most remarkable thing to have happened in Western intellectual history.' -William Placher (A History of Christian Theology, 55)

3. Senior seminar today involved cupcake mosaic making (to the sweet vocal sounds of Garrison Keillor) in celebration of our professor's birthday. We made the state of Indiana:

(I swear, this is not a reflection of everything my tuition bill has paid for.)

Love Beyond Affection

"Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained." --C.S. Lewis

The Gods Must Be Crazy

I forgot how much I loved this movie! (Well, the first 30 minutes at least. I've never watched the rest. But I definitely plan on it.)

Mankind

Maybe this is actually funny. Maybe I'm just really tired. It could honestly be either one.

"Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself. Mankind. Basically, it's made up of two separate words: "mank" and "ind". What do these words mean? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind." - Jack Handy

Pray Without Ceasing

A Long and Painful Genocide

Wow. I don't think there are many people groups throughout all of history that have been lied to and betrayed as much as the American Indians.

If anyone is interested, I have a really informative, terribly depressing 25 page article that sums up the history of exactly how we went about treating them like the scum of the earth. I would be happy to share. 

Senioritis

I'm not sure if it's a bad thing, or what's ultimately going to help me survive this semester.

The Scandal of the Evangelical Heart

A blog about really valid doubting by Rachel Held Evans.

Because Life Isn't All Serious

Les Mean Girls: