My husband looking at the estuary at sunset. Estuaries are places in between, not quite ocean, not quite river. I get a sense right now that the world is sitting in a place that is not quite one thing or the other, just like an estuary. These last few days have been rather hard to…
A few days ago I did my usual beach walk. It was just so much harder than usual because it was high tide. I’d forgotten to check the tide charts and moon phases before heading out. Few sea beans to be found. After a good hour I trudged back to the restaurant we routinely park…
Written by Suzanne Titkmeyer originally published at No Longer Quivering Patheos on December 15, 2013 Recently Kevin Swanson, radio babbler and righteous rabble-rouser against all things not homeschooling fundamentalist Biblical patriarchy has been making more of an ass out of himself than usual. It’s not merely due to the fact that he has a new…
Written by Suzanne Titkemeyer published on No Longer Quivering Patheos on May 12, 2014 A few weekends ago Vyckie forwarded to me a link from Mother Jones magazine involving a book written by Kathryn Joyce. Her new book is about the adopt craze among the evangelical churches and is titled “The Child Catchers: Rescue, Trafficking…
Written by Suzanne Titkemeyer published on No Longer Quivering Patheos on April 16, 2014 Mother Jones magazine has finally published Kathryn Joyce’s account of the Evangelical Movement’s obsession with adoption and the inevitable not so great outcomes when you don’t take practicalities of foreign adoption under consideration. Surely you remember not too many years ago…
Beauty is as subjective as as many varied opinions there are over this tree stump. Some might argue it’s beautiful, some it is ugly. Written by Suzanne Titkemeyer and published at No Longer Quivering Patheos on April 4, 2014 Recently I came across a very disturbing blog posting and another and another and another. It…
My shoes. About the only part of a woman’s body, her feet, that Christian men do not judge! Written by Suzanne Titkemeyer and published at No Longer Quivering Patheos on January 11, 2014 Editor’s note: This was written about a long defunct website isthismodest.com owned and operated by a man who used photos of teenage…
Matthew 12:35 “Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks” You know it’s going to be bad when I post a photo of a calm blue ocean! Written by Suzanne Titkemeyer and originally published at No Longer Quivering Patheos on October 19, 2013 Today some of the more popular media outlets like Buzzfeed,…
Sadly I am slightly defending Katie Joy Paulson. Paulson is a YouTuber and former Patheos blogger who goes by the moniker “Without a Crystal Ball.” She tends to cover reality television in her videos. One of my big objections to Ms. Paulson’s business model is not the content. It’s the methods she uses to share…