Posted by: philomytha on: October 31, 2009
Some of the things about church that give me the most joy lately are the little things. Like… a couple weeks ago the weather was cold and wet and nasty and I wanted to wear jeans and boots and a fuzzy sweater. And I could. Normally I try not to wear my everyday clothes [...]
Posted by: philomytha on: October 27, 2009
I have no idea what the kids learned in RE this last week. NinjaBoy said that their holiday was “Hundi”. He spelled it. I think he meant Hindu. And I think it might have said “Diwali” on the chalkboard when I dropped him off. They did a kind of puppet show, possibly, and the one [...]
Posted by: philomytha on: October 27, 2009
For an eternal verity abides beneath diversities; we are children of one great love, united in our one eternal family. – W. Waldeman W. Argow The minister on Sunday talked about creating “a broad universalism,” that beneath all our religious and political and philosophical differences we’re all the same. Every person has inherent worth and dignity [...]
Posted by: philomytha on: October 18, 2009
A little setback with NinjaBoy this morning. He didn’t want to go to church. He begged to be allowed to stay home. I quickly discovered the problem — the teacher last week asked him questions. So I went to the classroom while NinjaBoy was in the chapel service and further explained his idiosyncrasies to the [...]
Posted by: philomytha on: October 11, 2009
Butterfly’s class today talked about helping people. And one of the boys, whom we’ll call George, was annoying. George was the one who last week suggested giving beer to the homeless man, and today he said a swastika was a symbol of peace (it didn’t sound like he was talking about the Buddhist symbol either). [...]
Posted by: philomytha on: October 9, 2009
It was becoming apparent that folks in my LDS ward were noticing that we weren’t there. My kids were assigned speaking parts (which were mailed to us) in the Primary program coming up later this fall, and Horatio was starting to get emails from the bishopric asking if we were still living in the ward. [...]
Posted by: philomytha on: October 5, 2009
I had a lovely talk with Butterfly the other day. She’s 11 and very scientific and serious-minded. It’d surprised me the week before that she commented with such astonishment on how they didn’t tell her what to believe in her RE class. We talked about that some more. I told her that I don’t have [...]
Posted by: philomytha on: October 4, 2009
by Philomytha Short on words today, but I do have to mention that a miracle occurred this morning. My boy tasted a date. This is big. Really big. He also tried pita bread, string cheese, and clementines. The only thing he wouldn’t taste was the hummus. Need I mention that the teacher bribed the kids [...]
Posted by: philomytha on: October 3, 2009
by Philomytha I can’t believe I’m going to church on a holiday weekend. Normally I look forward to this weekend for half the year because the first weekend of October is General Conference and there’s no church. This is the closest thing Mormons have to a religious holiday of their own. Except for Pioneer Day, [...]
Posted by: philomytha on: October 1, 2009
by mev I was pretty sure I knew more about other religions that the average American. My belief was based on the knowledge that came from (a) growing up Unitarian (the junior high curriculum was called The Church Across the Street and has evolved to the Neighboring Faiths curriculum that my seventh grader is in), [...]
