Today's video is a look at attempts at pastoral care I received that were neither pastoral nor caring. Except for the adverse impacts of these pastoral actions, any telling of them is better suited to a Looney Tunes cartoon sketch than a pastoral office. https://youtu.be/naZPAViqSsA
Sir Rhodri here, to report that Jasini and I are striving but not yet thriving again, and that this post is a cry for help. I am including two Youtube links in this post. The first is a video I made based off my personal experience with one of our former churches.In recent posts I … Continue reading The Parable of the Unjust Judge, also known as the Parable of the Persistent Widow
In putting together my recent blog series on Harmony Vs Unity, one of I used one of the features of Wordrpess to create feature images for many of the posts with an AI image generator, giving the the AI prompts, and seeing what it came uup with. I seldom like what the AI gives at … Continue reading AI Obstinance
Of course, quite often, instead of allowing the natural harmony to flow, from the bottom up, and from all directions outward and back, someone gains power at the top, and tries to enforce a unity from the top down. It never ends well. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/r0ksl0x3zl4?feature=share
In looking at the world around us, and in projecting the effects of various results of certain actions, one of the biggest logical errors is to think arithmetically. It is not wrong to say 1 + 1 = 2 or 2 + 2 = 4. But people are not identical widgets that can be added … Continue reading Harmony Vs Unity, Part 6
It is something few of us think about, but everyone need to know how to give, and know how to receive -- and all of us are usually better at one of them than the other one by a significant margin. Some people aren't good at either. It is the rare few that have both … Continue reading Harmony Vs Unity, Part Five
Which is the source of community: Unity or Harmony? What is the key trait of community? https://www.youtube.com/shorts/kjQCe8KKpwE?feature=share
What is the benefit of minding your own business? What is the result when people mind your business rather than their own? That is the underlying questions to answer with part three of this seven part clip series. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/KDYhw4ZQWoI?feature=share
Today's post is later than intended. And sort of because of today's topic. I have been spending plenty of time on my own affairs, and yet still discovered I needed to be spending more .... Because someone was taking my affairs for his own, and some of my goods have disappeared. But that isn't the … Continue reading Harmony Vs Unity, Part 2
I had intended to make this post on Wednesday, but something came up that detoured me from this subject, but i still intend to tie this post to the celebration of the 31st wedding anniverasy for me and Lady Jasini. Wednesday was the anniversary date, and we are having the celebration dinner today at Cinzetti's … Continue reading Harmony vs Unity
