Silas House's Blog, page 9
August 16, 2009
On Sabbaths (Discovery 8/16/09)
August 15, 2009
Discovering Something New Every Day
Follow Silas House as he meets the challenge of discovering something every day–and writing about it. Visit him here daily to read his daily discoveries (he usually posts around midnight). Enjoy!
July 5, 2009
A Certain Kind of Christian (Part Two)
My first college was Sue Bennett Methodist, and every week we had to attend convocation. Sue Bennett was a strict school: to visit the dorm room of the opposite sex your door had to remain open at all times and you had to always have at least one foot on the floor (to keep you from stretching out on a bed). But I loved that instead of convocation being a fire and brimstone sermon it was a time of learning. We weren't being yelled at about going to hell; we were being told revolutionary t...
June 30, 2009
A Certain Kind of Christian (Part One)
A Certain Kind of Christian (Part One)
No one in my family thinks I'm a Christian, and I'm trying to not care anymore.
It took me a long time to come to a place where I thought it might be okay to not care, but that's the best thing about being in your (late) thirties…you begin to care a lot less about what other people think of you. To make sense of all this, and how I finally came to accept myself as a Christian, I have to go way back to the beginning, when I was a...
May 18, 2009
The God of Birds' Nests
"If you happen to come upon a bird's nest along the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, and the mother sitting on the young or on the eggs, you shall not take the mother with the young."–Deuteronomy 22:6
This verse kept going through my head yesterday when we were at the state capitol in Frankfort, Kentucky, protesting against mountaintop removal, a form of coal mining that is devastating the mountains of America. There were about 800 of us there, united by a common...
The Gathering
Now that I have a new website (which will eventually have lots of bells and whistles), I'll be using this site for my blog, A COUNTRY BOY CAN SURMISE. I hope to update the blog more often than I have in the past, with random ramblings pretty often with an occasional long essay like I've always done on my blogsite. For now I'm going to paste in old blog posts, so I hope you will enjoy them.[image error]
I'm writing this from the Gathering of Writers at Greenbo State Park in Greenbo, Kentucky. We're...
May 17, 2009
Welcome
Welcome to my Web site. I hope you enjoy the new design! It was designed by Joshua Dodson from Dodson Design.
