I definitely wanted to do yoga with my sister while she was here (she had a Y membership and could get me in with her) but since she's gone my desire to do it shriveled up a bit. But I'm definitely keeping my mind open to it, especially if I can work the dancing thing out. I'm so glad it's working out for you. It sounds amazing.
I SAW YOUR POST ABOUT EUROPE I'M SO EXCITED FOR YOU! I hope you're having a blast, and London is amazing and you will love it yay for meeting with friends! I don't know where you are in Germany, but if you get a chance Neuchwahnstein is totally worth going to see. It's kind of in the middle of nowhere like a two hour train ride from Munich, but it's a big tourist attraction so it's pretty easy to get there. And it's crazy cool.
Yeah, the first day you get anywhere far away is a total waste of a day, but I'm so glad you feel better today. OH I HOPE YOU HAVE SUCH FUN.
partly because I don't know how to find a church that won't try to save me from new more socially/theologically liberal ways but won't me freak me out by being way farther than I am on that spectrum
Exactly. This is a problem where I am too because there are the A) conservative evangelical churches, B) the hipster conservative evangelical churches, and C) the hipster churches. And...yeah, none of those work for me. I did really love the one I was going to service-wise, but it just got to be too much emotionally to go every week and not have anyone talk to me. I mean, people greeted me during the peace, but I wasn't even friendly acquaintances with anyone and it was just too much for me to handle. If I'd made ONE friend I could sit with sometimes or something, someone to go to the things with, I would have been fine. But it didn't happen, so...it's kind of fizzled off.
Anyway, blogs. I think the best thing about RHE is that she has a really approachable style that means that the commenting discussions are quite interesting, so I do quite like her site. I love Peter Enns a lot, though I haven’t been reading him as much lately because he’s so Old Testament/Genesis-focused and I’ve already figured out that I read it as holy myth. :D I like Slacktivist a lot. I really like Fred Clark, who runs it, but it’s also got a really consistently interesting commenting community that I love (trolls aside, which they do get. Also I know you’ll recognize at least one commenter who isn’t me but who is on your flist and recently got married…). Richard Beck’s Experimental Theology is great (he comes out of my denomination, too, so that’s cool) and his stuff on disgust theory/purity is incredibly enlightening and unique (he's a psychologist, not a preacher, so his perspective is awesome). I just started looking through theamericanjesus.net, and I really love diannaeanderson.net for a feminist twist on things. I sometimes read Roger Olson’s stuff on patheos because his whole ~thing is anti-Calvinism, which I appreciate. And there are loads of people on patheos, actually, sometimes I just like to browse and find things that way.
I know there are others, and I'll link you if I remember what they are! Honestly, if you just read Slacktivist, Fred does TONS of links to other sites (he has several link roundups like “7 things at 7” and “smart people saying smart things” and things like that that are just full of interesting links that will lead you to interesting places) that will probably provide you with tons of other people.
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I definitely wanted to do yoga with my sister while she was here (she had a Y membership and could get me in with her) but since she's gone my desire to do it shriveled up a bit. But I'm definitely keeping my mind open to it, especially if I can work the dancing thing out. I'm so glad it's working out for you. It sounds amazing.
I SAW YOUR POST ABOUT EUROPE I'M SO EXCITED FOR YOU! I hope you're having a blast, and London is amazing and you will love it yay for meeting with friends! I don't know where you are in Germany, but if you get a chance Neuchwahnstein is totally worth going to see. It's kind of in the middle of nowhere like a two hour train ride from Munich, but it's a big tourist attraction so it's pretty easy to get there. And it's crazy cool.
Yeah, the first day you get anywhere far away is a total waste of a day, but I'm so glad you feel better today. OH I HOPE YOU HAVE SUCH FUN.
partly because I don't know how to find a church that won't try to save me from new more socially/theologically liberal ways but won't me freak me out by being way farther than I am on that spectrum
Exactly. This is a problem where I am too because there are the A) conservative evangelical churches, B) the hipster conservative evangelical churches, and C) the hipster churches. And...yeah, none of those work for me. I did really love the one I was going to service-wise, but it just got to be too much emotionally to go every week and not have anyone talk to me. I mean, people greeted me during the peace, but I wasn't even friendly acquaintances with anyone and it was just too much for me to handle. If I'd made ONE friend I could sit with sometimes or something, someone to go to the things with, I would have been fine. But it didn't happen, so...it's kind of fizzled off.
Anyway, blogs. I think the best thing about RHE is that she has a really approachable style that means that the commenting discussions are quite interesting, so I do quite like her site. I love Peter Enns a lot, though I haven’t been reading him as much lately because he’s so Old Testament/Genesis-focused and I’ve already figured out that I read it as holy myth. :D I like Slacktivist a lot. I really like Fred Clark, who runs it, but it’s also got a really consistently interesting commenting community that I love (trolls aside, which they do get. Also I know you’ll recognize at least one commenter who isn’t me but who is on your flist and recently got married…). Richard Beck’s Experimental Theology is great (he comes out of my denomination, too, so that’s cool) and his stuff on disgust theory/purity is incredibly enlightening and unique (he's a psychologist, not a preacher, so his perspective is awesome). I just started looking through theamericanjesus.net, and I really love diannaeanderson.net for a feminist twist on things. I sometimes read Roger Olson’s stuff on patheos because his whole ~thing is anti-Calvinism, which I appreciate. And there are loads of people on patheos, actually, sometimes I just like to browse and find things that way.
I know there are others, and I'll link you if I remember what they are! Honestly, if you just read Slacktivist, Fred does TONS of links to other sites (he has several link roundups like “7 things at 7” and “smart people saying smart things” and things like that that are just full of interesting links that will lead you to interesting places) that will probably provide you with tons of other people.