Picturepocket's Blog

Category: LGBTQ+

  • Wild Mombot

    I watched the movie Wild Robot with my kids yesterday evening after dinner. It’s beautifully rendered, but am I the only one to relate to the robot when it comes to raising kids?  In the movie, if you haven’t seen it, a robot is accidentally dumped into the sea, and washes up on an island…

  • Letters to Friends: Romans Chapter 1

    The book of Romans is an epistle, a letter, that Paul wrote during his early missionary journeys through the Mediterranean. This particular letter is addressed to those of the Jewish faith living in Rome.  Paul starts by describing himself three ways: a servant of God, an apostle, and someone set apart for the gospel. He…

  • Focus on the Fear

    A staple of my childhood passed this week and wow, do I have a lot feelings about it. I remember Dr. James Dobson and Focus on the Family as an inescapable part of my childhood and young adult life. My parents read his books and listened to all of his broadcasts. They bought me his…

  • Jesus Revolution 2.0

    Here we are in 2023 and the hippy Jesus is back on television. Watching the recent movie Jesus Revolution on Netflix brought me back to my childhood church experience. My parents met and married in a pentecostal church on the West Coast after the Vietnam War. My early days of Sunday school were at one…

  • Independence Day

    It’s the time of the year when I see lots of patriotic posts, challenging people to show the flag and “Stand up for freedom and America.” I do celebrate Independence Day because as a movement it acknowledged human equality and unalienable rights. It’s also important to understand that the founding fathers’ first push for freedom…

  • Pride Party People

    Our family attended to the Pride Party at Orenco Station this weekend. It took us twice as long to get there because leaving the house with four people is always a challenge, and the endeavor was further delayed because my daughter had left her shoes at a city park. To do that she literally had…

  • Hate to Love

    Recently I heard someone questioning what it means to hate. When discussing sex education one group was wanting to talk about same-sex partners, but the others, who identified as Christian, did not want schools to include it in the curriculum. The pro-group called the others hateful. Shocked, they said, “We’re not hateful, we just disagree.”…