The crazy lady strikes again for Tuesday, December 19, 2006

Occasionally, I will read a blog produced by someone named Carrie Tomko. She is a cradle Catholic who spends most of her time on that blog talking about the infiltration of various non-Catholic philosophies into the Catholic Church. However, one of the posts she put in there today (I'm writing this post on 12/19/2006) has nothing whatever to do with Catholicism. It's a - shall we say - interesting recipe involving Jose Cuervo tequila. Fellow blogger Constance Cumbey is right; whatever you do, if... Sign in to see full entry.

I wanted to continue the thoughts I'd started a few entries ago, before I got sidetracked by what amounted to a book review profiling Fr. Leo Booth's When God Becomes a Drug. One of the things implicitly taught by many in the evangelical and fundamentalist Protestant subculture is that one should "train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he shall not depart from it." For those of you concerned by the apparent sexism in the language of that sentence, it's basically a direct... Sign in to see full entry.

In my last entry, I mentioned a book, When God Becomes a Drug, written by recovering alcoholic and ordained Episcopal priest Fr. Leo Booth. The book is about religious addiction, and I explained some aspects of religious addiction in that last entry. There are two aspects of that book I don't like. First of all, Fr. Booth pays lip service to the all-too-accurate fact that people can become addicted to all sorts of religious and spiritual practices (in my opinion, this includes New Age... Sign in to see full entry.

This is a post that would normally go in From Death Into Life, because my observations relate directly to religion and spirituality. But, because this is in the Journal section of Blogit, I feel comfortable discussing these issues in here, too. Religion and spirituality are important topics to me, as a person, even though I have a history of switching religious labels as easily as some women change hairstyles or shades of makeup to conform to the fashions of the day. Because this is a... Sign in to see full entry.