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Welcoming the Newcomer

December 3, 2023
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Personal Writings, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings

Anyone who has been a visitor at a church knows that there are a variety of ways the family of God approaches and welcomes visitors and newcomers. Over the years when in this position, there have been things that make me feel either like I want to go back, or I want to never go back there again. Today, I simply share some musings and observations about myself and others after returning for a third time to church on a...

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Max Lucado to Speak at 2024 “Exiles in Babylon” Conference Organized by Preston Sprinkle

December 2, 2023
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Book, Media and Movie Commentaries, Linguistics and Language Series, Religion, Politics and Current Events

Continuing with my series on raising awareness of theological/political/sociological/ideological shifts taking place in the Church and through well-known Christian Pastors, Speakers, Authors and Theologians, I am sharing this analysis/delving (below, in video form by Wokepedia) into the 2024 lineup of various speakers at Preston Sprinkle’s “Exiles in Babylon” Conference (sponsored by Theology in the Raw). You can read more about this conference and see all lined up speakers and their bios here. I have listened to this full talk, and...

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Manipulative Communication and Semantic Games: Preston Sprinkle’s Recent Podcast

December 2, 2023
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Book, Media and Movie Commentaries, Linguistics and Language Series, Religion, Politics and Current Events

After finishing up my earlier blog piece from today (WHAT IS “CRU” AND WHY DID THEY “CANCEL” JOSH MCDOWELL?), another online resource popped up (which I quickly subscribed to after listening to the initial podcast) relating to Preston Sprinkle’s recent interactions with Pastor Jared Moore on his Theology in the Raw podcast. I have now found myself subscribing to this Wokepedia podcast on YouTube (it is related somehow to EWIC News Site–“Enemies Within the Church”), along with a number of...

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What is “CRU” and Why Did They “Cancel” Josh McDowell?

December 1, 2023
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Book, Media and Movie Commentaries, Religion, Politics and Current Events

I recently was listening to some talks in which “CRU” kept being referred to–as though one should know the reference. A small amount of Googling revealed that CRU is the new name for Campus Crusade For Christ, and Wikipedia answered my secondary question of why/when did this take place: “In 2011, Campus Crusade for Christ changed its name to Cru. The name change was intended to avoid association with the word “crusade”, which can lead to offense, especially in Muslim countries....

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Friendsgiving: The WOKE Virtue-Signaling Protest of the Traditional Family

November 22, 2023
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Linguistics and Language Series, Personal Writings, Religion, Politics and Current Events, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings, Writings on Violence in its Various Forms

The purpose of this piece is to raise awareness about linguistics and how new cultural practices form. It is my hope that if we can recognize the pattern, purpose and means of infiltrating ideologies and values in one specific context, then we can better recognize trending shifts–and that which is behind some innocuous-sounding changes–in other contexts and especially, in the Church. It is not my goal to pass judgement on whether you or someone you know engages in “Friendsgiving” of...

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“Who Do You Think You Are, ‘Billy Graham’?”

November 15, 2023
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Family Outlines and Assorted Collectibles, Life Stories, Personal Writings, Writings

“Who do you think you are, Billy Graham!!??” Those are my most definitively-recollected, specific words that my mother said to me in that particular encounter over forty years ago. __________ College days seem so far away, and the exact dates of my mother’s various (lengthy) involuntary State-Hospitalizations years ago, with the inevitably difficult encounters that surrounded each event, seem to blur together in my mind these days. As I try to write this piece, I sit here staring here and...

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Who Owns the Moon?

October 31, 2023
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Religion, Politics and Current Events, Writings, Writings on Violence in its Various Forms

“The earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein….” (Psalm 24:1) GOD OWNS THE MOON! Not witches, not man…but our Creator owns all that He has created, to His purposes. And God said, “Let there be lights in the vault of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark sacred times, and days and years, and let them be lights in the vault of the sky to give light on...

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The Blessing

August 13, 2023
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Personal Writings, Writings

In the past year or more I have gravitated toward many thoughts about blessing and cursing, and seem to listen for these elements in many Psalms, Old Testament stories and New Testament references these days. As I look about me I increasingly see a world that is slipping not only into stupidity and madness but into seemingly newly-invented forms of deep evil as well as the resurrection of age-old forms of evil practices of all sorts. I don’t know that...

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Safe and Unsafe People

August 2, 2023
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Personal Writings, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings, Writings on Violence in its Various Forms

About twenty years ago I was in a conversation with a friend and she said that as humans, we tend to subconsciously (or consciously) categorize every other human as either safe or unsafe. Of course this was in the context of relational issues, but I think it has other layers that can involve physical safety and spiritual safety. And this conversation about what it means to be a safe person occurred long before the current linguistical shifts and movements that...

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Familial Generational Spirits: Vintage ~1994

July 23, 2023
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Personal Writings, Religion, Politics and Current Events, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings, Writings on Violence in its Various Forms

I can still see the faces and odd behaviors of many of my siblings in Christ that night, when I showed up (with trepidation) to assess in person what was in the process of demolishing the Christian Community (as I knew it) that I had been part of for twelve years since I was an 18-year-old convert committed to following Jesus. My first husband and I were already on the brink of leaving, as were a large number of others....

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Eileen Slifer

I am a visual artist who works in a variety of mediums - producing fine art, illustration and design commissions/products for clients. I have been creating since childhood and sharing my giftings for hire since 1989. I also love to write and have been expressing in this way for a number of years in private poems, stories and journals that have been shared with treasured friends or publicly. Thank you for visiting my blog. I value the time and interest you spend on my expressions, and I read every comment.

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