Randomness
Dec. 30th, 2013 09:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfinblazeStuff that might interest some of you:
- Tinnitus discovery opens door to possible new treatment
Disruption of timing from sensory nerves underlies "ringing in the ears" that plagues millions, including many veterans.
- Tony Abbott is a Wrecking Ball.
- Surviving Anxiety.
This made me feel all anxious just reading it, but boy can I relate.
- Xenophobic tilt in Europe
Britain, France, and Austria have also been challenged by the growing popularity of the far-right movements, exposing minorities to escalating hate speech and violent attacks.
- I have a few Catholics who read this blog, so this call went out to those of you who, based on Catholic principals, want to stop the new "life in prison" law for gay people in Uganda. The link includes a mailing address for Archbishop Michael Blume in Kampala, Uganda, if you'd like to write to him.
- This is a hopeful sign: Sr. Jeannine Gramick Comments on Pope
In other words, [the Pope] wants men - priests now - who are in the trenches with the people, who are pastoral and not people who are obsessed with cultural issues.
Or to put it another way, the Pope wants bishops who talk to and know the people they lead, not some disconnected scholars in a cultural echo chamber.
I'm a 31-year-old queer woman, raised Catholic, who left the church half a lifetime ago. I'm not going back even IF the church starts making some sense on birth control, the ordination of women, abortion, and homosexuality, because I can't force myself to believe in stories that I just don't believe are true anymore. I was raised to value truth, and now the true history of the scriptural compilations keeps me from seeing them as anything other than made up metaphors and fairytales with moral lessons.
But I'm cautiously hopeful about Pope Francis. If he can institute enough changes in the church hierarchy to last beyond his leadership he'll have done enough good for more changes to come. The fact that American right-wingers hate him speaks well of him too. ^_^
- Tinnitus discovery opens door to possible new treatment
Disruption of timing from sensory nerves underlies "ringing in the ears" that plagues millions, including many veterans.
- Tony Abbott is a Wrecking Ball.
- Surviving Anxiety.
This made me feel all anxious just reading it, but boy can I relate.
- Xenophobic tilt in Europe
Britain, France, and Austria have also been challenged by the growing popularity of the far-right movements, exposing minorities to escalating hate speech and violent attacks.
- I have a few Catholics who read this blog, so this call went out to those of you who, based on Catholic principals, want to stop the new "life in prison" law for gay people in Uganda. The link includes a mailing address for Archbishop Michael Blume in Kampala, Uganda, if you'd like to write to him.
- This is a hopeful sign: Sr. Jeannine Gramick Comments on Pope
In other words, [the Pope] wants men - priests now - who are in the trenches with the people, who are pastoral and not people who are obsessed with cultural issues.
Or to put it another way, the Pope wants bishops who talk to and know the people they lead, not some disconnected scholars in a cultural echo chamber.
I'm a 31-year-old queer woman, raised Catholic, who left the church half a lifetime ago. I'm not going back even IF the church starts making some sense on birth control, the ordination of women, abortion, and homosexuality, because I can't force myself to believe in stories that I just don't believe are true anymore. I was raised to value truth, and now the true history of the scriptural compilations keeps me from seeing them as anything other than made up metaphors and fairytales with moral lessons.
But I'm cautiously hopeful about Pope Francis. If he can institute enough changes in the church hierarchy to last beyond his leadership he'll have done enough good for more changes to come. The fact that American right-wingers hate him speaks well of him too. ^_^
