Several years ago, I started this blog because I began to notice how important it was for religion and politics to mix. The importance is about religious liberty in America and what helped me to understand was a book I read by Eric Metaxas titled “Bonhoeffer”. The book is the life story of Dietrich Bonhoeffer,…
I love Vacation Bible School! There are many reasons why I think VBS is wonderful and I believe every church (no matter how big or small) should commit to making sure VBS is a regular ministry program. I recently read a George Barna Update on the state of Vacation Bible School and I was disappointed…
I was once carrying a child. It was not a fetus or blob of tissue but a developing baby. I remember the nurse consoling me that this fetus had no heartbeat. She said to me, “It is not a death just an absence of what was needed to become human”. Then why did I feel…
The Velvet Brick is now a contributing writer for a women’s conservative news site. Here is my latest article on an important subject that is stirring up a lot of media attention. Here is an excerpt and a link to the site. During CPAC among the up and coming “political rock stars” like Ben Carson,…
My 8th grader informed me about a change she learned in referencing time periods. In her Social Studies class the teacher said that the abbreviation BC (Before Christ) has been changed to BCE (Before Common Era) and AD (the Latin abbreviation for the year of our Lord) is now simply CE (Common Era). My reaction…
School has started up again and the thing I dread most in the back to school process is buying the school supplies. Three kids, three different class lists and you can’t just get any notebook. No, it has to be Mead, wide ruled and a weird size that no…
Remember in Snow White, when the evil queen says, “Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all?” What a blow to her self-image to learn that the fairest was Snow White. We have all been like that queen, looking in the mirror for answers. I think it is accurate to say…
Marriage has made me weak!
When I was dating my husband I wouldn’t let him hold the door open for me. I refused to let him do some of the nice things that a gentleman does for a lady. Why? Because I had this warped notion of what it means to be a female in today’s society. It was so…
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