• Sunday, May 14th

    2 minutes

    Well, we now find ourselves in the middle of the month of May, and with an imminent update for Maustsontoast. This coming week is going to be full of fun, celebration and excitement. Emily starts her new job at HealthSouth (check out their webpage here). She will be a nurse technician working right beside nurses and doing their dirty work. And did I mention she gets to wear cute little scrubs like they do on E.R.? And while Emily is getting her nurse on at Health South, I will be… …delivering ice all over the state of West Virginia (and…

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  • Heteronormativity

    1 minute

    It’s clear that we (that’s to say, mankind) defines roles for males and females. What males can do (permission, not ability), females may not be permitted to do; and vice-versa. In the light of the scriptures, namely Genesis when God creates man and woman in his image, heteronormativity can be rejected in so far as […]

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  • We’ve Moved

    2 minutes

    Whoever thinks that they can move all their stuff/junk in one day is supremely mistaken. Emily and I thought when my parents brought up a U-Haul, we could just chuck everything thing in there and that would be the end of it; but, since the U-Haul, we have made 3 more trips to the old apartment on Donley Street. Today, Tuesday May 2, we consider ourselves moved to our new, wonderful, clean, neutral, spacious, air-conditioned 818 Timberline apartment. We checked our new mailbox for the first time yesterday and found a letter from HealthSouth addressed to Emily offering her a…

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  • Not Simply Men of Political Genius

    1 minute

    Oftentimes it has struck me while reading the prophets of the Old Testament (Isaiah or the minor prophets), that these men may not actually be speaking for God, but be expressing their own displeasure with and toward the people of Israel or the entire world. As prophets, they may feel fed up that their audience […]

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