Oprah Winfrey and the Christian
Should Christians watch Oprah? Friends, I’m having a hard time with a definite answer with this, and you know me, I’m always ready with a Yes or No. I thought I had my answer, wrote up my post to publish yesterday, then I started thinking of the people, the Christians, who may take what they [...]
January 28, 2009
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Monica Brand · 
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Tags: Bible, Christianity, culture, Eat Pray Love, encouragement, Internet, Oprah Winfrey, sin · Posted in: Believing, Thinking
If Jesus had been born in a modern world…
maybe the scene would’ve looked something like this: I love how the artist shows some folks fascinated, others not so much. How would YOU have reacted? HT: Hacking Christianity
December 12, 2008
· Monica Brand · 7 Comments
Tags: celebrations, Christianity, Jesus Christ · Posted in: Believing
The importance of learning truth
My mom as a young woman, before I was born, worked at a large bank in Manhattan. As a bank employee, she was trained to recognize counterfeit bills. Down in the basement of the bank, my mother counted bill after bill, touching, feeling the money. She learned color, texture, weight of the paper. My mom, [...]
December 4, 2008
· Monica Brand · 6 Comments
Tags: Bible, Christianity, Eat Pray Love, Elizabeth Gilbert · Posted in: Believing, Reading, Thinking
Why I’m voting for John McCain
I had no intention of writing about the presidential election here on my happy mommy book blog. Then my pastor had to go and preach a fabulous, hit-it-out-of-the-park sermon about Christian citizenship last Sunday. I sat in the pew, muttering to myself. Drat. Now I have to be a political blogger too. I didn’t watch [...]
November 3, 2008
· Monica Brand · 26 Comments
Tags: Christianity, Jesus Christ, pro-life · Posted in: Believing, Thinking, Women's issues
More thoughts on church: I’ll not give up
Sunday wasn’t the happy Sabbath it could’ve been; you figured that out from Tuesday’s post. I didn’t write that snippet of life to stab my church. I love my church, that’s why it hurts much when it doesn’t feel reciprocal. I realize this is a public forum for personal church problems. I have no intention [...]
October 9, 2008
· Monica Brand · 9 Comments
Tags: Bible, Christianity, church, love · Posted in: Believing
When two worlds collide: Elizabeth Gilbert and why I home school
Did you feel that tremor last week? The lighting, the rolls of thunder, the shifting of the earth under your feet? Two of my favorite subjects – Elizabeth Gilbert and home schooling – collided Friday when my husband brought home the local newspaper. I was writing a blog post about why I home school. Husband [...]
July 28, 2008
· Monica Brand · 15 Comments
Tags: Christianity, Eat Pray Love, Elizabeth Gilbert, home schooling, Indonesia · Posted in: Believing, Home schooling, Learning, Reading
