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Sep. 23rd, 2013 14:10Thursday September 19, 2013 Adult Children Anonymous meeting.
Learned that there's a cellphone app for ACA.
***Speaking of dysfunctional families: From minnpost.com:
So the excuse is … the driver was blind … John Brewer and Sarah Horner of the PiPress say: "The son of a motorist arrested for allegedly hitting two Army recruiters and dragging one for nearly a mile Tuesday in Roseville said his father is legally blind and likely didn't see the two men. He also was likely in the area panhandling for drug money, the son said."
Friday September 20, 2013 Bumpersticker: "higher powered."
***Now, 18 months into a new life, Ms. MacBain is bringing much of her old one to the task of building congregations of nonbelievers. She has been hired as the director of the Humanist Community Project at Harvard with the mandate to travel the country helping atomized groups of atheists, agnostics, humanists and freethinkers replicate the communal structure and support that organized religion provides to its faithful.
This line of work draws directly on Ms. MacBain’s experience of seeing her father create and build congregations throughout the small-town South and of her own track record of ministering in churches, prisons, nursing homes and drug-rehab centers. Were she not helping to develop communities of nonbelievers, she would be called, in Christian parlance, a church-planter.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/21/us/after-a-crisis-of-faith-finding-a-new-secular-mission.html?hpw&_r=0
This isn't completely new. There's the Ethical Culture Society, for example. And: I sometimes say that three of my grandparents belonged to the Church of Marx, Scientist.
Learned that there's a cellphone app for ACA.
***Speaking of dysfunctional families: From minnpost.com:
So the excuse is … the driver was blind … John Brewer and Sarah Horner of the PiPress say: "The son of a motorist arrested for allegedly hitting two Army recruiters and dragging one for nearly a mile Tuesday in Roseville said his father is legally blind and likely didn't see the two men. He also was likely in the area panhandling for drug money, the son said."
Friday September 20, 2013 Bumpersticker: "higher powered."
***Now, 18 months into a new life, Ms. MacBain is bringing much of her old one to the task of building congregations of nonbelievers. She has been hired as the director of the Humanist Community Project at Harvard with the mandate to travel the country helping atomized groups of atheists, agnostics, humanists and freethinkers replicate the communal structure and support that organized religion provides to its faithful.
This line of work draws directly on Ms. MacBain’s experience of seeing her father create and build congregations throughout the small-town South and of her own track record of ministering in churches, prisons, nursing homes and drug-rehab centers. Were she not helping to develop communities of nonbelievers, she would be called, in Christian parlance, a church-planter.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/21/us/after-a-crisis-of-faith-finding-a-new-secular-mission.html?hpw&_r=0
This isn't completely new. There's the Ethical Culture Society, for example. And: I sometimes say that three of my grandparents belonged to the Church of Marx, Scientist.