Monthly Archives: February 2019

Back Door to Belief: Moral Outrage

Posted on February 26, 2019 by Karen Thomas Olsen

Unbelievable. Believable. Certainty. Doubt. Trust. Betrayal. Outrage too?

The theme I’ve been researching for this blog has been caught in bad weather. I’ve been researching responses to the question, “What is spirituality?” and was about to post the first article in a new series, comparing and contrasting various spiritualities. Spirituality is popular today. The purpose of this blog is to nourish a specific spirituality, the spirituality of following Christ. Thus, the Pedestrian Theologian motto and underlying theme.

However, the raging forces of what is called “moral outrage” has “tsunamied” many in our country, and I can’t help but catch some of the blast. Raging media waves. Raging thought waves. Raging rage. Fire and water. FEMA or not, in time, Lord willing, I’ll rebuild on my little lot (this blog).

Strikingly, along these detoured highways of moral outrage, I observe “spirituality” billboards. There it is!  A connection between outrage and spirituality. Hmm. Unbelievable. Believable. Now, I can add moral outrage to my list of back doors to belief – in God.

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Learning Curves

Posted on February 16, 2019 by Karen Thomas Olsen

Sometimes my learning curves take me in circles! However, the circles often roll forward. Not always. This is what I call the “recursive process” — of writing, of learning — of life.

For much of today, Ive been exploring my WordPress blog operations, trying to make some ideas work. I wanted to add some pictures to my Photo Gallery found when you click on my Gravatar, that picture of my face, below the header.  I couldn’t figure out a way to add pictures. I don’t know how those pictures that are there got there!

Finally, I decided to try another avenue. I started a new “page,” added pictures and some text, and thought I sent the post to you! It is there on JNC now, but it did not get sent to your email box, so you don’t know I made a new post, on a new page within JNC.

I’m sending you this from my main page to inform you, that if you click on “JNC Special Pictures” which is hanging above the header (the picture of the mountainous, Pacific coastline), you will find today’s post, which is on a different page. Apparently, somewhere in my “dashboard,” there is presented a way to add this page to my mailing list of readers. Someday, I may figure this out, but I’ve done enough figuring out for one day!

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