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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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Pharoahs, Peeps, Predators, Peers and Protective Instincts

July 20, 2023
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Religion, Politics and Current Events, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings, Writings on Violence in its Various Forms

When the Israelites were in captivity under Pharoah in Egypt, it impacted a number of things concerning control and freedom in their reproductive behavior and rightful parental ownership (in the sense of normal, healthy parental rights) regarding their children and grand-children. At least early on, perhaps this people group was not constrained in freely populating in the times when Joseph’s family came to Egypt seeking refuge and garnered, perhaps, an amount of favor. Eventually, a new Pharoah came into power...

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“I Don’t Think I’ll Do Such a Big Garden Next Year”

June 18, 2023
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Life Stories, Personal Writings, Writings

This year for Father’s Day, I write to honor two other father figures from my life–my Uncle Bill and my first father-in-law, Henry (Dad). After my father died when I was sixteen, I increasingly began to look to my Uncle Bill and Aunt Virginia as two blood relations that stepped into the role of parental substitutes, to some degree. But before I talk about these things, I want to go back to various interesting Old Testament stories and/or practices which...

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All My Life You Have Been Faithful

June 8, 2023
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Beautiful Song and Poetry Lyrics, Life Stories, Personal Writings, Writings

I was baptized into Christ as a believing adult in the summer of July 1983 (according to the film development date on back of some old photos) in a creek on a property owned by the minister of a church I had become involved with during my early college years. Those who planned to be baptized that Sunday were asked in advance to come prepared with some type of statement of faith to verbalize, or a scripture to speak that...

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Deconstructing Deconstructionism

May 30, 2023
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Religion, Politics and Current Events, Writings, Writings on Violence in its Various Forms

There’s a term that keeps coming to the forefront of the various socio-politico culture wars with its most direct implication toward biblical Christianity. If you’ve not heard the term deconstruction or you are not sure what that means, I hope to set forth an understanding by which you can recognize it when you see it, and if your allegiance is to Jesus, to be aware of its one goal: the complete deconstruction and destruction of the Christian faith. __________ I...

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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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