Recent content by jimkenney12

How much do you know about the situation?

It is a cheap version.

We are not in an actual war. Buying some American products can remind those producers how important we are to them and encourage them to push against Trump. Maintaining good relationships with the people undermines their leadership. Our tariff policies hit the states that are the strongest...

Carney is pushing for investment in an LNG project owned by an American investor (friend of Trump) using a platform built in Korea at a time when numerous other projects are farther ahead and the market is close to peaking. It would use natural gas from NE BC owned by an American company. It...

Child was in a stressful situation and had other issues. Parents did the best they could in an evolving situation.

Positives: steady pension income, growing depth and breadth of knowledge, growing clarity of beliefs, time for projects; time for grandkids and freedom most of the tim to make last minute trips to Verdun when we are needed to help with Grandkids. Gratitude for still being physically and a...

It is a bidet. All the bathrooms in the airports in Taipei and near Tokyo have them.

Do many Koreans speak English? Are the signs the work of American missionaries?

Who is Amy Jill Levine?

Clergy are also a handy target for hard feelings.

I am saddened by your giving up congregational life. I hope you will consider sharing your reasons for your decision with the last church you attended. We gave up on church here for a while as one church we attended was indifferent to visitors and the music and theology at another church...

Large chunks of doctrine arose from twisted interpretation of Hebrew texts and selective interpretation of Christian texts from documents approved by councils based on beliefs and philosophies at the time. All the letters were written by people, mostly men, with particular interpretations of...

LAM is having an open council meeting on October 17 with reps from each congregation, 9:30-16:30 to discuss the future of LAM. They passed a strategy document over a year ago but I thought it lacked significant goals.

We got it in June. Our daughter and grandchildren love it when they visit. And I am violating my expectations for this thread. Back to renovating and tramsforming churches

Except for crawling up the stairs, getting to our car, and getting into a wheel chair at the hospital, I have had very little pain in the ankle area where the breaks are. Most pain now is in the chest areas near the arm pits where the strain and pressure from using the crutches and in the right...