Christina M | July 22, 2004
In May, a man named David Reimer committed suicide. If the name doesn’t mean anything to you, be assured that it received a great deal of attention at one time, almost 40 years ago. This was when Dr. John Money, a sex-change pioneer at Johns Hopkins, decided to experiment with sex reassignment on the toddler […]
Christina M | July 21, 2004
Of course, we all know that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints no longer allows polygamy. There are, however, some fundamentalist offshoot groups that still promote the practice. Some such communities encourage men to take a great many child brides and have lots of children. A word of advice, though: if you […]
Christina M | July 8, 2004
This is not a porn site. Yes, I repeat, there’s nothing to see here, so please move on. I’m speaking, of course, to the people who keep linking to Confessions of a Hot Carmel Sundae by way of searches for sex confessions. Smut readers, I have news for you. St. Augustine was using the word […]
Christina M | June 9, 2004
When my husband first saw the name of the Accidental Evangelist, he said “That’s also the name of my “fathers’ rights hero.” Well, glancing again, he realized that Anne Mitchell was the self-same champion ofFathers’ Rights. In a world increasingly filled with feminist ideas, it is easy to forget, in the “fight” for women’s rights, […]
Christina M | June 4, 2004
It all started with my counter. Sitemeter shows me where people link from, and sometimes they link from search engines. Naturally, my curiosity gets the better of me, and I sometimes check to see what someone was searching when they found me. Then, sometimes I wish I hadn’t looked. It seems that a number of […]
Christina M | June 1, 2004
The Pope has appealed to the Church in America to study contemporary culture to find a way to appeal to youths, if we hope to break away from the danger from turning, as a society, to materialism in place of spirituality. That’s just what the Church in America has been trying to do. Unfortunately, too […]
Christina M | May 29, 2004
Now that Memorial Day weekend is here, barbecues are heating, boats are revving, and sleeping bags are getting cleaned across the United States. My family plans to spend at least part of Memorial Day weekend acknowledging our military by watching some old favorites among military movies. We’ll definitely be starting off with The Great Escape, […]
Christina M | May 24, 2004
Some of you may have noticed I recently acquired a counter from Sitemeter. I really like it because it offers me some information to help track what people are looking for on my site, and has helped me to find some of the other sites that link to mine. What I hadn’t counted on is […]
Christina M | May 17, 2004
Now that Mother’s Day is past, it’s time to start planning for Father’s Day. Do you think your husband or dad could use a nice wallet? Or perhaps he’s more traditional, and would prefer the old classic, a tie? The nice thing about these gifts is that they are personal, but not too personal, or […]
Christina M | January 5, 2004
I’m in the middle of reading Anne of the Island, the third book in the L. M. Montgomery series, and came across a meaningful passage, about the afterlife. It reminded me of C. S. Lewis, who said in The Great Divorce that if you go to heaven, in hindsight your time on earth will have […]