CONFESSIONS OF A STARBUCKS PASTOR

If it doesn't affect us, North Americans tend to turn the other cheek. She was really mean and gossipy to you? Well, I will go see her because she hasn't done that to me. (Yet.) Your church did that to you? That's so hard to believe I can't hear any more. So I will still go there. I've known him for 15 years and never seen anything like what you said he did, so I don't believe you. I believe him even if you had witnesses. They haven't cheated me, so I guess they are okay even though they cheated you. And one of the worst comments of all: Oh, I don't pay attention to the news. It's too depressing. The last sentence is one I hear frequently. As a news junkie, I enjoy a good rant with fellow concerned citizens. When I converse with someone who is barely aware of ISIS ("are they bad??") I shudder. When I hear myself describing their barbaric, Old Testament behavior in the name of their twisted belief system, I am sickened. Beheadings? Dem...

Love that 90's movie with Sandra Bullock. While You Were Sleeping . Not only the story, but how we got to see it in the theaters with a bambino in a stroller. The kidlet who needed constant motion. We sat in the unoccupied handicapped section and pushed his ride to and fro in order to see the movie with the same name. As a more grown up person with some antenae, every time I see a major media source focus on just one story (for ratings?), I always wonder what else is going on in the world that we aren't hearing about. What are we missing? Fast forward to NOW. ISIS (I refuse to accomodate their continual name changes) is ravaging northern Africa and pummeling the Middle East. It also has a vast presence in Indonesia we rarely hear about. When was ISIS born? Why didn't we hear more about this Pac Man Terrorist organization before it took so much power and rage on? Inklings of an ISIS in some form has existed far back into Osama Bin Laden's reign. Recent documents p...