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Friday Not Quite Morning
Thu, 21/07/11 – 15:26 | One Comment

I remember this view, looking up and back at the ghosts of congregants from the early 1900s, and my own ghosts from the last years of that century. Convergence and a little synchronicity.

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Lizzie and Jane are on the cusp of GenX. We continually search for our spot (past and present) in the great game of generational generalization.

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Jane and Lizzie in the Land of Believers Part 2: Feeling X and Baptism
Wednesday, 28 Apr, 2010 – 22:37 | No Comment

Jane: 
Gina Welch’s journey into the world of Thomas Road Baptist Church began with her experience at the Scaremare house of horrors/sins.  Room after bloody, shocking room depicted a multitude of sins.  After being told that …

Jane and Lizzie in the Land of Believers
Thursday, 25 Feb, 2010 – 13:51 | 6 Comments
Jane and Lizzie in the Land of Believers

LIZZIE
Well, Jane and I are feeling quite official as book reviewers now–seems our piece last year on Kevin Roose’s Unlikely Disciple was unearthed by a marketing director at Henry Holt Publishing.  And, as a result, …

Jane and Lizzie and “The Unlikely Disciple”
Sunday, 22 Mar, 2009 – 18:21 | 2 Comments
Jane and Lizzie and “The Unlikely Disciple”

JANE 
I am a frequent, if not daily reader of Salon.com and the other day I came across this article.  It was an excerpt from the book, The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner’s Semester at America’s Holiest …

Accidental Christian Reading, a Conversation With My Rabbi, and a Correction or Two
Saturday, 21 Mar, 2009 – 17:16 | No Comment
Accidental Christian Reading, a Conversation With My Rabbi, and a Correction or Two

JANE
I love to read.  I don’t get to read as much as I’d like, because I am a mom.  Laugh all you will, but I miss my hour long commute into The City by train. …

Cathedral of Praise
Saturday, 14 Feb, 2009 – 14:03 | 2 Comments
Cathedral of Praise

I promised to write more about Ken Follett’s The Pillars of the Earth, and (having just listened to the last chapter of the splendid, sparkling, accent-rich audiobook version narrated by John Lee), I think that …

Okay, so you got religion… Is the social connection enough or do we need rules too? Part Three (And while we are at it, let’s talk about Death, as well)
Wednesday, 29 Oct, 2008 – 8:46 | No Comment
Okay, so you got religion… Is the social connection enough or do we need rules too? Part Three (And while we are at it, let’s talk about Death, as well)

Jane October 25 at 8:51am
Thank you for all of that. I won’t be able to properly sit and think and write until Sunday (hopefully afternoon, but possibly evening). There is a lot to respond to. …

Okay, so you got religion… Is the social connection enough or do we need rules too? Part Two (And while we are at it, let’s talk about Death, as well)
Friday, 24 Oct, 2008 – 7:46 | 2 Comments
Okay, so you got religion… Is the social connection enough or do we need rules too? Part Two (And while we are at it, let’s talk about Death, as well)

Lizzie October 23 at 6:02pm
I am stuffed full of vanilla, luscious fudge sauce, and Reddi-whip–just from your answer to Question Two. And it’s just nutty enough. Who needs a cherry? (Memories of working the …

Okay, so you got religion… Is the social connection enough or do we need rules as well? Part One (And while we are at it, let’s talk about Death, too)
Thursday, 23 Oct, 2008 – 13:29 | One Comment
Okay, so you got religion… Is the social connection enough or do we need rules as well? Part One (And while we are at it, let’s talk about Death, too)

Jane October 23 at 8:44 am
Lizzie’s First Question: Is the cultural connection and uncodified personal spirituality enough for me?
Short answer: yes.
What follows is the long, much more rambling answer:
One of my housemates in my one …

Lizzie & Jane gingerly pick their way through the religious minefield to reach an honest but comfortable place to talk…
Thursday, 23 Oct, 2008 – 7:06 | 2 Comments
Lizzie & Jane gingerly pick their way through the religious minefield to reach an honest but comfortable place to talk…

Lizzie     October 22 at 1:16pm
Okay, so I did just have to tell you one other thing. You know the documentary Religulous by Bill Maher?
One of his victims, I mean interviewees, is Ken Ham, the …

Mah Umbrella’s Done Shot Fulla Holes
Sunday, 19 Oct, 2008 – 20:20 | One Comment
Mah Umbrella’s Done Shot Fulla Holes

Lizzie     October 19 at 5:43pm
So, here goes:
I went to the “Ladies’ Retreat” that spring morning because I was depressed and the topic was “Joy.” I didn’t want to be depressed anymore, and I figured I …