I found this really great article on the LA Times Website. It's pretty thought-provoking. I know that most of the people who read my blog (which isn't very many of you) disagree with me about things like this, but I really believe that Father Geoffrey Farrow has a lot of courage to come out in such a public way. He will probably lose his job--not just any job but his CALLING--because of his convictions. I was especially moved by this quote from the article:

"The Bible is not a book, it's a library written over 15 centuries," Farrow told me, suggesting that Christianity has and should continue to evolve. "People who approach scripture in a literal fashion are attempting to manipulate God himself."

I just read this article about people who live without TV. I have nothing else to say. I just thought it was interesting. LOL.

According to this article, Pope Benedict has declared all non-Catholic Christians as defective and that they cannot attain salvation except through the Catholic church. So sad.

Let me explain that, no, I'm not Catholic. Neither am I one of those anti-Catholic Christians, though I've encountered more than one person who is. I worked in Catholic education for many years, and I've even thought about joining the Catholic church in the past. I love the liturgy and the history of the church, but it is things like this that have stopped me.

When he was known as Joseph Ratzinger, the current pope took issue with the reforms of the Vatican II Council. He apparently still has problems over 40 years later, because this week he went out of his way to try to bury those reforms.

*sigh*

For the record, Pope Benedict, Christ did not found a church when He was on earth. Christ was born and lived. Christ died, Christ rose, Christ will come again. The fact that there is a Christian church now doesn't mean that Christ founded "one true church" or any other church for that matter.

In addition, Pope Benedict, salvation does not come from the church--any church. Salvation comes from Christ. Freely.