That's not the same Mars Hill. There are two Mars Hills. Rob Bell is a universalist and wrote the book "Love Wins."
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Sometime around 2006, there was an article about him and his Mars Hill megachurch in Salon and I read the article and comments. I can't remember if it was there or in another article with comments, but a woman posted, "I'm tired of these 40-year-old adolescents." The draw was that Driscoll advocated that the men…
I called the police one time after hearing the upstairs apartment doorbell being rung over and over for maybe 30 minutes, then the door being kicked, and then voices inside. I put my ear to the furnace piping so I could try to tell what was being said. I heard no screams, but whimpering. Finally I heard "you're…
I watched a BBC show in the late 80's where something like five or six criminologists considered the five or six major suspects, and the consensus was Kosminski, for many of the reasons you cite.
I make an exception for churches that shun, though. It's tons harder to leave a sect or cult you grow up in where you know you are going to be kicked out of your family and shunned by everyone you know, and have nowhere to go. That happens to young men and women in cults and sects like the FLDS, Westboro Baptist,…
Now almost all of my Facebook friends are falling for Daily Currant articles.
What if they gave an elopement and everybody came?
That's what happened to us. We were going to elope to Chicago, where we go every so often. We love visiting there. There's an officiant there who will meet you at a landmark and do a quick elopement ceremony. Oh, and we're 57 and 68. Twenty people announced they…
I think you're onto something. While working in the poorest slums in Calcutta, Mother Teresa said she felt sorry for Westerners because of the loneliness. Of course Mother Teresa didn't mean the poor people she worked with didn't have crushing problems. She was just pointing out the poverty of spirit among some…
I lived in Memphis in 1982-84. One time a bunch of kids were abandoned at a McDonald's. When they finally caught up to the "family," it turned out none of the kids were their kids. It was a similar setup...the "parents" were using the kids to make bad bad movies.
That's what I've been saying about online trolls. I bet they are seemingly normal, successful people (like your colleagues or even boss at work) who blend right in and seem normal on the outside, but are seething with rage on the inside and get off on keeping it well hidden.
I enjoyed it.
The economy is still good enough there for guys under 30 to be well-off or established enough to be on their way to being well-off?
Unfortunately, I think some people absolutely get off on having as secretive a double life as they can, and they like having the traditional wife in the completely traditional role while having this completely opposite hidden side. So many of the world's most evil mass murderer dictators had one woman whom they…
Ask Paula Rader, married to an extremely depraved serial killer for 34 years. He was also the President of the local Lutheran congregation. He sneaked one of his victims into the church and did depraved things on the altar.
Dennis Rader, the BTK killer, was the President of his Lutheran church congregation, married, and the father of two. His wife had NO CLUE. Neither did his kids. The police went behind his daughter's back to her doctor and got a DNA sample to confirm it was him. He kept his mementos in a locked cabinet in a shed. …
A few years ago, a college President was caught making harassing phone calls to the mother of a dead child. Just for funsies.
I know several people I suspect of leading this very kind of double life. One is a preacher.
OK, but if I'm ever in a position to hire or fire people, or affect their career in any way, and I find out someone's been "harmlessly" spewing hate on the Internet? I'm going to get a very negative view of that person permanently, and I'm going to be SURE I don't want that person anywhere near my workplace. Who…