http://tradingmysorrows.groups.vox.com/library/posts/page/1/ "I'm Trading My Sorrows, I'm Trading My Pain..." en Vox Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:22:48 -0700 Copyright 2008 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://tradingmysorrows.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00d09e843972be2b00fae8c618cf000b.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(SimplyEmy) http://tradingmysorrows.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00d09e843972be2b00fae8c618cf000b.html?_c=feed-rss http://tradingmysorrows.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00d09e843972be2b00fae8c618cf000b.html?_c=feed-rss Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:22:48 -0700 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://tradingmysorrows.groups.vox.com/library/photo/6a00d09e843972be2b00fa968188c70002.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a7.vox.com/6a00d09e843972be2b00fa968188c70002-50si" alt="Whose footprints?" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> Today I was really upset, no... angry would be the better wording. It doesn't matter why or what happened, as that person has apologized. But while I was angry I got to thinking. In English we read The Lord of the Flies. Now I mention this book b... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://tradingmysorrows.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00d09e843972be2b00fae8c618cf000b.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d09e843972be2b00fae8c618cf000b?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://tradingmysorrows.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00e398e52f09000500fad694f9300004.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Nick) http://tradingmysorrows.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00e398e52f09000500fad694f9300004.html?_c=feed-rss http://tradingmysorrows.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00e398e52f09000500fad694f9300004.html?_c=feed-rss Thu, 26 Jun 2008 04:40:04 -0700 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://tradingmysorrows.groups.vox.com/library/photo/6a00e398e52f09000500fad694f9500004.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a0.vox.com/6a00e398e52f09000500fad694f9500004-50si" alt="Before the internet" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> All this online pugilism between Christians of different stripes! All these forum fencing-matches about free will and predestination and law and grace and evolution and intelligent design and miracles! All these arguments that might never have... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://tradingmysorrows.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00e398e52f09000500fad694f9300004.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e398e52f09000500fad694f9300004?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> solidarity prayer internet arguments theological argument seekers' solidarity unanswered prayer http://tradingmysorrows.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00e398e52f09000500fa967febe10003.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Nick) http://tradingmysorrows.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00e398e52f09000500fa967febe10003.html?_c=feed-rss http://tradingmysorrows.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00e398e52f09000500fa967febe10003.html?_c=feed-rss Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:32:45 -0700 Fellow Nick Drake fan Scott Small over on Not In Me has been so kind (or imprudent) as to let me post some reflections on heaven and suburbia on his upliftingly lovely blog There's Treasure Everywhere. If you're feeling whimsical please do pop ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://tradingmysorrows.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00e398e52f09000500fa967febe10003.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e398e52f09000500fa967febe10003?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> nick drake heaven suburbia not in me there's treasure everywhere http://tradingmysorrows.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00e398e52f09000500fad68fe4200005.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Nick) http://tradingmysorrows.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00e398e52f09000500fad68fe4200005.html?_c=feed-rss http://tradingmysorrows.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00e398e52f09000500fad68fe4200005.html?_c=feed-rss Thu, 12 Jun 2008 09:05:07 -0700 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://tradingmysorrows.groups.vox.com/library/photo/6a00e398e52f09000500fad690c4d30004.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a3.vox.com/6a00e398e52f09000500fad690c4d30004-50si" alt="Me at school" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> When you are a teenager, your personality seems like something separate from you. You are aware that you are a person who experiences things, but you are also aware that the person you are is one of the things you experience - the most immediat... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://tradingmysorrows.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00e398e52f09000500fad68fe4200005.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e398e52f09000500fad68fe4200005?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> trinity breakfast club koran rambo qur'an athanasius sure thing http://tradingmysorrows.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00e398e52f09000500fa967e04ed0003.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Nick) http://tradingmysorrows.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00e398e52f09000500fa967e04ed0003.html?_c=feed-rss http://tradingmysorrows.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00e398e52f09000500fa967e04ed0003.html?_c=feed-rss Wed, 11 Jun 2008 07:57:16 -0700 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://tradingmysorrows.groups.vox.com/library/photo/6a00e398e52f09000500fa967d60e50002.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a5.vox.com/6a00e398e52f09000500fa967d60e50002-50si" alt="Mental block" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> Question: Isn’t it always irrational to accept a claim ‘on faith,’ rather than on the basis of evidence? Answer: Sometimes exercising provisional faith is the most rational way to test a claim. (All faith is provisional at first, by the way... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://tradingmysorrows.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00e398e52f09000500fa967e04ed0003.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e398e52f09000500fa967e04ed0003?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> faith god reason q&a ovaltine provisional faith sodium pentothal http://tradingmysorrows.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00e398e52f09000500fad69027de0004.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Nick) http://tradingmysorrows.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00e398e52f09000500fad69027de0004.html?_c=feed-rss http://tradingmysorrows.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00e398e52f09000500fad69027de0004.html?_c=feed-rss Tue, 10 Jun 2008 07:55:04 -0700 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://tradingmysorrows.groups.vox.com/library/photo/6a00e398e52f09000500fa967d142f0002.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a7.vox.com/6a00e398e52f09000500fa967d142f0002-50si" alt="Recently touched by an angel" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> It has taken me a while to realise that evangelicals are not immune to urban myths. On the contrary - in churches across the world, false rumours of God’s deeds are swapped like cigarette cards. This admission of mine might amuse those scepti... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://tradingmysorrows.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00e398e52f09000500fad69027de0004.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e398e52f09000500fad69027de0004?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> jenny laundry angel testimony urban myth http://tradingmysorrows.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00d09e843972be2b00fae8c18090000b.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(SimplyEmy) http://tradingmysorrows.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00d09e843972be2b00fae8c18090000b.html?_c=feed-rss http://tradingmysorrows.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00d09e843972be2b00fae8c18090000b.html?_c=feed-rss Mon, 09 Jun 2008 18:17:42 -0700 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://tradingmysorrows.groups.vox.com/library/photo/6a00d09e843972be2b00fae8c17d57000b.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a7.vox.com/6a00d09e843972be2b00fae8c17d57000b-50si" alt="Starting Young" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> Many times when people see an obese child they often conclude that his or her parents are to blame. When only one girl out of fifteen will raise her hand and say that she is content with her body image... do we still blame the parents? If I fin... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://tradingmysorrows.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00d09e843972be2b00fae8c18090000b.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d09e843972be2b00fae8c18090000b?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://tradingmysorrows.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00e398e52f09000500fad68fccce0004.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Nick) http://tradingmysorrows.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00e398e52f09000500fad68fccce0004.html?_c=feed-rss http://tradingmysorrows.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00e398e52f09000500fad68fccce0004.html?_c=feed-rss Mon, 09 Jun 2008 03:54:39 -0700 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://tradingmysorrows.groups.vox.com/library/photo/6a00e398e52f09000500fa967d5bf20003.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a2.vox.com/6a00e398e52f09000500fa967d5bf20003-50si" alt="Ploughshares while u wait" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> Let's stop being offended. Let’s just stop! How about that? How about if, whenever a book or film or play comes out that denigrates our faith and blasphemes our deity, we didn’t run shrieking to some board of censors as though we had somet... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://tradingmysorrows.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00e398e52f09000500fad68fccce0004.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e398e52f09000500fad68fccce0004?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> outrage persecution testimony taking offence http://tradingmysorrows.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00e398e52f09000500fa967cd2400003.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Nick) http://tradingmysorrows.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00e398e52f09000500fa967cd2400003.html?_c=feed-rss http://tradingmysorrows.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00e398e52f09000500fa967cd2400003.html?_c=feed-rss Sat, 07 Jun 2008 08:47:01 -0700 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://tradingmysorrows.groups.vox.com/library/photo/6a00e398e52f09000500fae8c0c1ff000b.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a7.vox.com/6a00e398e52f09000500fae8c0c1ff000b-50si" alt="Jack chick" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> Christian theology allows for the possibility that people will somehow respond to the gospel in this life without having consciously done so. Paul says that those who reject God will be without excuse; if one had to actually hear the gospel in... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://tradingmysorrows.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00e398e52f09000500fa967cd2400003.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e398e52f09000500fa967cd2400003?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> jesus love paul faith abraham cross chick tracts salvation idolatry jack chick http://tradingmysorrows.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00e398e52f09000500fa967a49ae0003.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Nick) http://tradingmysorrows.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00e398e52f09000500fa967a49ae0003.html?_c=feed-rss http://tradingmysorrows.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00e398e52f09000500fa967a49ae0003.html?_c=feed-rss Fri, 30 May 2008 02:04:12 -0700 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://tradingmysorrows.groups.vox.com/library/photo/6a00e398e52f09000500fad68b8fca0005.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a2.vox.com/6a00e398e52f09000500fad68b8fca0005-50si" alt="Gummy devil" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> When I was a teenager, I went into my bedroom one day with the intention of sitting on my bed with a bible and a notebook and figuring out what I really believed about hell. It was a matter that I was supposed to have an opinion on, given that... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://tradingmysorrows.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00e398e52f09000500fa967a49ae0003.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e398e52f09000500fa967a49ae0003?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> jesus hell heaven fundamentalism evangelism belief apologetics salvation chesterton universalism damnation julian of norwich toothless fundamentalism evangelical doctrine