I smoke and drink and yet am Evangelical.
Yes, but do you go whoring? That's my test case.
Gunn: The final score can't be rigged. I don't care how many players you grease, that last shot always comes up a question mark. But here's the thing. You never know when you're taking it. It could be when you're duking it out with the Legion of Doom, or just crossing the street deciding where to have brunch. So you just treat it like it was up to you—the world in balance—'cause you never know when it is.
'Underneath'
Natter 34: Freak With No Name
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
DavidS - Mar 29, 2005 1:56:39 pm PST #1330 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Betsy HP - Mar 29, 2005 1:56:53 pm PST #1331 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
It's a sub-group within evangelicalism, and that publishing line is catering to the most conservative sub-group, because that's who their booksellers cater to.
Exactly. It's a pretty weird subset of Christian who's going to stop reading a book because the heroine goes to a Methodist church.
DavidS - Mar 29, 2005 1:58:37 pm PST #1332 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Brenda's pretty.
Isn't she? I think she's peaking right now. Probably this evening.
msbelle - Mar 29, 2005 1:59:04 pm PST #1333 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
weird but very vocal and organized.
and why am I still at the office?
Atropa - Mar 29, 2005 2:00:41 pm PST #1334 of 10001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
So am I right in assuming Evangelical just means you talk to people about your faith? Or is there something more to it? I realized that I don't know, and I'm curious.
Betsy HP - Mar 29, 2005 2:01:44 pm PST #1335 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
That's what small-e "evangelical" means. Big-E is different, and I think Cindy can explain it a lot better than I can.
DavidS - Mar 29, 2005 2:04:35 pm PST #1336 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
So am I right in assuming Evangelical just means you talk to people about your faith? Or is there something more to it? I realized that I don't know, and I'm curious.
I've switched to saying Conservative Christians and people stopped yelling at me for using the wrong phrase or damning the wrong people. Because...Conservative Christians isn't an actual denomination. "Fundamentalist" also seemed a little fraught with baggage that I didn't properly understand, though in general it seems that the Fundamentalists are culturally quite Conservative.
Betsy HP - Mar 29, 2005 2:08:18 pm PST #1337 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Aha! Laura Kinsale, a very good writer of historical romances, often has characters' religions affect their major decisions. One character's major crisis is being a Quaker in love with a non-Quaker (she winds up being read out of meeting); another is a medieval Catholic, and the big crisis scene of the book is her convincing her husband to go to confession.
I don't think of her books as being Christian because they contain sex, which just goes to show that I've accepted somebody else's definitions. Both of those heroines' religions are cornerstones of their lives and worldviews.
Cashmere - Mar 29, 2005 2:20:26 pm PST #1338 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
Now with more nape!
As much as I love napes, in general. I sadly have a horrible one. Not so much horrible nape as awful hump on my back where my posture is so terrible. This, I blame on the boobs.
So it's basically my boobs preventing me from having a gorgeous, nape-highlighting, short bob.
Aims - Mar 29, 2005 2:22:01 pm PST #1339 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Yeah, but great boobs!