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Actually, I live in Fort Washington, Maryland. Not small at all. But the church community is close. we've been part of the church for years. About 20 for me. You don't just drop the church. Dropping the church means dropping half of your friends and acquaintances. You might work with...

Well...people know me as the somewhat hardened girl with a chip on her shoulder (even though I don't have a chip on my shoulder). In church I see nothing but sheep and my unwillingness to take part is well noted. Especially amongst the powerful figures in the church. I never took a special...

This is bad. I get a call from someone at church saying that there will be a college fair saturday and she asks me to represent my school. I tell her I couldn't make it due to prior commitments but I do come to the realization that I am eventually going to have to break the news to my church...

I just watched the first three episodes and I have to agree about the sexism. It's thick in this series but it's so stubble and accepted that most wouldn't even recognize it until I pointed it out. Then, of course, people would say "Oh yea". I won't give anything away but I will bring up...

As far as telling them I'm an atheist and then telling them I'm gay? I'm pretty my mom would have a panic attack or worse. I'm not trying to kill her. Actually, funny you should bring up homosexuality. The rest of this post gets a little graphic but you get the idea. And I'm sure most of...

Actually, I've spoken to my parents about the bible and God and basically their take on it is that it is all about faith. They openly admit that there is no solid evidence that God exists: Only that "feeling" in your heart. And that feeling is amplified when you are hit with hard times and...

I'm actually not afraid of being disowned. I don't even think they'd cut me off financially. They'd hold up their end and pay for college and give me 6 months after graduation to truly get on my feet. But they wouldn't be generous. If I had to buy a new set of tires for my car because of...

ps, no black snow flakes? My coworkers got a kick out of that, heh.

You know, I read it over and it 'is' really funny. I'm going to hold off on telling them the truth until I'm independent.

Oh the usual ways. When you first enter the doorway, there is a stain-glass ornament hanging from the window that reads either "In this house, we serve the lord" or "As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord": one or the other. Inside is a very expensive bible laying on a glass curio...

I really love this response and I wish that my circumstances were as romantic as you thought: Young egyptian woman, second guessing her faith while under the grip of her prominent parents. betrothed to a two-faced husband. Needing a way out. But no, I'm just a black, american 22 year old who...

Agreed. I'm waiting til I graduate AND have a job good enough to pay rent and bills. I don't know what I'll do until then though. I'm not really crazy about lying in my moms face and I'm sure this'll be brought up again before the year is out. I guess I'll just not drop the beans unless I'm...

heh, i thought about that. January is when I'll officially be independent. I'll have my degree and that's when I'll start to get bold.

I recently called my mother to tell her about my experience in Arabic Class. I constantly update her because it's a class I struggle in (since I skipped 101 and went straight to 201 BUT I studied on my own for a time). Anyways, after I told her about it, she asked if I went to church on...

I may have given up on the idea on God but the rest of my family sure hasn't. Every now and then my mother calls me a heathen. Jokingly of course...I think.... I'm also learning Arabic: A language with speakers heavily involved in their religion. There is no simple 'hello'. It's always "God...

Hail!

I completely agree. I like the idea of being successful, not because I'm a child of God, but because of what I've done. Still, whenever I face a really difficult challenge, it's sooo tempting to take the easy way out and pray to God for guidance. Even though he's not really doing anything...

I'm sure everyone has heard someone tell them they are special. But, is this really true at the age of 5? Better yet, is it fundamentally required for development to be told you are somehow special, even when you've accomplished nothing? Is it detrimental to development if you're not somehow...

When one is raised to think that, even when life gets you down, there's always a chance that God will see you through. It's a comfort to know that the supernatural will come through for you. And when things that you were previously stressing about end up working out, you attribute this bout of...

I made up my mind a while back that Christianity wasn't for me, though I hadn't realized it yet. What I did realize was that the faith in which I was raised consisted of many inconsistencies that I couldn't overlook, even as a child. How could God, an all knowing, Good being provide such a...