My mother isn’t the only one who used to say that, is she? Nah. We’ve all heard it, at some point. Sometimes we believed it, and brought our behavior in check. Other times, we did what we wanted to do because we thought we could get away with it. It’s our belief that we can …
Category Archives: Spirituality
Get Out of a Jam with the “F” Word
The last time we chatted, the Loud Mouth was on the road, journeying to the Final Frontier. Few roads have more detours than this one. Opportunities abound to use the “F” word with reckless abandon. The first stop was at the door of a client who signed a hefty one-year contract that he didn’t have …
Forgiveness: The Final Frontier
I was nearing the climax of another “Deeply Disappointing Drama” when I decided to simply surrender, just let go. I had examined every scene and every actor from every conceivable angle, and I couldn’t make any sense of it. None!Like all No-Drama Queens, I take full responsibility for scripting every life drama I experience. We …
Honey, I’ve Shrunk Our God!
My dear friend, the Reverend Dr. Vici Derrick of Joy Cathedral in Seattle, often says, “God made man in His image; then man returned the favor.” It’s not a new phenomenon. About 2,500 years ago, Greek philosopher Xenophanes said pretty much the same thing: “If horses were to create gods, they’d look like horses.” Speaking …
World’s Oldest Action Figure
If you engage enemy nations in a vicious bloody battle, kill every man, woman, child, and destroy every edifice on your path, you’re: A guerilla A terrorist Neither of the above If you selected “neither of the above”, congratulations! You’re right: You wouldn’t be a guerilla or a terrorist. But do you know what one …
Excuse Me, but Wrath is not Divine
Be still my heart. Pat Robertson reportedly has diagnosed Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon as suffering from Divine Punishment. Yep, what caused the severe stroke that threatens Sharon’s extended visit on the planet was his decision for Israel to withdraw from Gaza. Kid you not. Read the news report yourself. Granted, this story originated from …
When “Christian” Doesn’t Mean Christlike
Gee, it must have been tedious and time-consuming to intimidate large numbers of people prior to the advent of the Internet. Now, with just a click of the mouse, you can threaten masses of people in a flash. If they don’t forward your e-mail to x number of friends within x number of minutes, they’ll …
“Happy Holidays” Heresy
Loud Mouth here, fresh from reading a news story about religious protestors who object to stores secularizing Christmas by using the term “Happy Holidays”… As if, for the first three centuries of Christianity, Christmas was celebrated at all. Only pagans celebrated the birthdays of their deities and many Christians opposed all efforts to relegate Jesus’ …
Peek-a-BOO!
Maybe you’ve already received this image of the nighttime sky in an e-mail message. If not, take a wild guess at what that eerie looking object in the heavens might be. Need a hint? Well, according to the originator of the e-mail, this image was captured by NASA. You know the Loud Mouth in the …
For Real, What Is Intelligence?
Conventional wisdom says we must ask the right question to get the right answer. So when I spotted a Chicago Tribune column asking, “If God’s so intelligent, why is every last thing on Earth so messed up?” I almost choked on my salt and pepper potato chip. In the article entitled “God’s Imperfect World”, the …