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Evangelical Fear and Purity Culture

Evangelical Fear and Purity Culture

Over the last couple of weeks, Josh Harris has announced that he is splitting up with his wife and that he has left Christianity. Generally, I don't like to write about people, but prefer to write about ideas. However, there are some things about Josh Harris and purity culture that are instructive. Josh Harris grew up in a "homeschooling royalty" family. His dad was a popular homeschooling speaker, and Josh and his brothers were encouraged in pursuing their intellectual inter

Friday Finds - July 26, 2019

It's Friday! Let's see what is out there on the internet! 1. You want to read the Mueller report, but you can't get through 400+ pages of legal-ese? Don't worry! The LawFare Blog has dramatized, yes, dramatized, the Mueller report into a podcast. You can find the intro here. So far, they've released two episodes and they are much more comprehensible than the actual report. Trust me. 2. This is entertaining, but also a bit concerning. The Trump administration's A/V team did no

Insomnia Ramblings About Healthcare

Insomnia Ramblings About Healthcare

I am currently on a steroid taper for my chronic migraine since it seems to have taken a turn for the worse over the last month. It seems, though, that I react to different steroids rather differently. Prednisone predictably makes me anxious, hungry and insomniac. I've been on Decadron this time (and my last steroid course) and find that I'm not as hungry, and the sleep and anxiety issues are intermittent. I slept a lot yesterday, probably recovering from Friday's migraine an

Chronic Illness Vagaries

Chronic Illness Vagaries

I feel like Loki at the end of that video clip. Although no one is claiming that I said I was a god! I called my doctor on Thursday about my persistent headache issues. He put me on a high dose steroid taper - yay! Then I had the migraine from hell on Friday and I ended up in the Emergency Department where I was able to get relief without narcotics - yay! But, I still didn't feel much better yesterday (Saturday). The pain was better (not gone, of course), but I was depressed

Friday Finds - July 19, 2019

Friday Finds - July 19, 2019

Yes, it's Saturday, but I wrote this post on Friday and it got lost in the interwebs and I'm having to rewrite it. But, if I do something like this again, it will still be Friday Finds, so I'm keeping the name! It was quite the Friday for me. I woke up at 4:20am with a whopper migraine despite having started decadron the day before. Strange, huh? But there was a bad storm coming. Anyway, I took a variety of meds with no relief so Patrick took me to the Emergency Department wh

No, You Can't Do Anything If You Try

No, You Can't Do Anything If You Try

Patrick and I like watching competition shows like American Ninja Warrior, Top Chef, and Project Runway (OK, that one's more me than Patrick). Something you hear a lot on these shows is, "I want to show (the world, my kids, . . . ) that you can do anything if you just try hard enough." Guess what? That's just not true! And we need to admit it. Hard work gets us far down the road, but we can't all reach the same destination. I'm a family doctor, but Patrick could probably not

Open Borders?

Are those of us who are calling for changes at the southern border calling for open borders? It seems like every time Trump tweets about Democrats, he's saying that they want "open borders". Is that really true? I can't speak for everyone (and I'm not even a registered Democrat), but disagreeing with the President does not mean that someone wants open borders. It is absolutely possible to believe that this country can have border security without holding asylum seekers in det

More Abortion Stuff - July 10, 2019

More Abortion Stuff - July 10, 2019

I came across a couple of abortion articles to share with you this week. First of all is this New York Times story about how women getting abortions are more likely to be poor. Women getting abortions today are far more likely to be poor than those who had the procedure done 20 years ago. Half of all women who got an abortion in 2014 lived in poverty, double the share from 1994, when only about a quarter of the women who had abortions were low-income, according to the Guttmac

Swept the Basement

Swept the Basement

Managing chronic migraine is always a challenge. Between the pain and chronic fatigue, it's just hard to get things done. And, since I love productivity so much, I value getting stuff done! Things have been worse over the last few months, so a few weeks ago, my headache specialist gave me occipital nerve blocks and a steroid taper. That helped temporarily, but things are back to being problematic. My baseline headaches are worse than they were a year ago and my migraines are

Evangelical Fear

Evangelical Fear

Time is running an excellent article by David French about why evangelicals continue to support Trump. He asserts that it's all about fear. And he's right. French first points out that evangelicals are taught from the cradle not to be afraid because God is with us. Our Bible stories from Sunday School are shot through with that theme. And, of course, he reminds us of 2 Timothy 1:7. But in 2016, something snapped. I saw Christian men and women whom I’ve known and respected for

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