The crazy lady strikes again for Sunday, August 20, 2006

In his book On Writing, Stephen King mentions that while writing Carrie (his first big bestseller, and the third manuscript he'd written), he found that he'd landed on Planet Female. I shamelessly adapted my title from him. What makes a man different from a woman? Up until very recently, most branches of Christianity recognized implicitly that the man was considered the leader. St. Paul, in one of his epistles, prohibited women from speaking in church services and performing ordained leadership... Sign in to see full entry.

I know I've covered a similar topic before, but I thought it bears repeating. In an earlier entry in this blog, I talked about the Duggars, a family of eighteen people (mom Michelle, dad Jim Bob, and sixteen children - yes, you read right: sixteen children). In that earlier post, I mentioned that one of the things I worried about was their relative isolation - specifically, the fact that they didn't see many outsiders other than journalists and Discovery Health Channel people who were filming... Sign in to see full entry.

I decided to post these comments in here because they are not specifically about Catholicism, but about Protestant sources of health care. Here in Chicagoland, we have two faith-based health care systems - the Adventist system and Advocate Health. Readers should be widely familiar with the Seventh-Day Adventists; the two big distinctives of this denomination are its insistence on Saturday worship and its heavy involvement in the health-care industry. It started out with many members being... Sign in to see full entry.