Tag Archives: god

No Questions, Questions (poem)

By Mel | Published: Wednesday, 24 June 2009
You wouldn't think Jerry Prevo would inspire poetry, wouldja? But this is the 2nd I've written b/c of him. Yikes.
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God of Mosquitoes (poem)

By Mel | Published: Monday, 15 June 2009
A summertime theology poem featuring “Alaska’s state bird.” I intended to post this a couple days ago, after a conversation with my friend Barbara who told me she was attracted to Buddhism but “I kill mosquitoes.”  I was reminded again this morning as I walked to work from the bus stop & had my own non-ahimsa [...]
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Religion v. belief

By Mel | Published: Tuesday, 19 May 2009
Friday before last, on my way down for coffee, I spotted a book on the new books shelf of the UAA/APU Consortium Library whose title caught my interest: The Religious Case Against Belief.  Its author, James P. Carse, is a professor emeritus of religion at New York University, where he spent 30 years directing its [...]
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Sermon (a poem)

By Mel | Published: Sunday, 17 May 2009
It’s Sunday, a day of sermons. Tales have it that Rev. Jerry Prevo will be delivering one of his predictable diatribes against homosexuality from his pulpit at the Anchorage Baptist Temple (broadcast live at 11:00 AM on KCFT-TV — cable channel 19, broadcast channel 35). In counterpoint, this week’s sermon at 2:00 PM at MCC [...]
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The god thing

By Mel | Published: Sunday, 30 April 2006
From the continuing conversation in an online group about life philosphies/religion/spiritual paths — one person there says stuff about religion, especially the organized varieties thereof, that could almost have come from my mouth, with one interesting difference: she is an atheist; I am not. Or at least I use the word “god” — what’s that all [...]
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A brief spiritual history

By Mel | Published: Thursday, 27 April 2006
In an online group I’m in, the topic came up of our religious/spiritual history, & how it integrates or doesn’t integrate with our sexual orientation as lesbians. Here’s the short version, as written there (with some emendations). 1. Junior high Jesus freak I was raised in the Episcopal Church (the American version of the Anglican Church), but [...]
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