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    Help me decide what to make for church potluck on Sunday, pleeeeaaase!!!

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    Wow. You people are chock full of ideas. I have enough material here to last me for a few pot lucks!

    Keep 'em coming, I'd love more.

     

    And Kat: I just took out some ground beef because that Greek dish sounded so good I'm going to make it tonight!

     

    Alice, that curry recipe looks delish too. We love Indian and Asian food, but since we've cut back on our spending we don't get to order it very often any more. I'm thrilled to start collecting recipes for curries that are just as tasty. If you haven't tried A.J.'s Tikka Masala, I highly recommend it!

    A new Aldi just opened that's close to me!

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    I bought cocoa powder there last fall at a very good price, but I was sad to discover that they consider it a "seasonal item" and only carry it for a few months per year.

     

    The Aldi near my home has an okay variety, but they sell an awful lot of things that I don't buy. I've bought pretzels and chips there when we were having people over because they were cheaper. Even before I started purchasing farm-grown meat I preferred not to buy their meat because it is injected with broth. I did buy the chicken for our chicken mummy there, though. :cool:

     

    Oh, and recently they had wild caught salmon for $2.99/lb, so I asked a friend to pick some up for me. But when I got ready to cook it I found out that it was imported from China. Ummm, no offense to Laura and Volty, but....I won't buy any more of that.

    Help me decide what to make for church potluck on Sunday, pleeeeaaase!!!

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    Okay, this should be a controversy-free thread! :cool:

    We have a church potluck every first Sunday, and I am plumb out of ideas this month. I would like to make something that either features chicken (I have a whole one that I can cut up) or ground beef (because it is on sale this week.)

     

    Any ideas? Crockpot recipes would be especially appreciated. Oh, and I don't mean to sound hoity toity, but I'd really prefer that they not contain any canned soup.

     

    Thanks!

    What is the argument that Catholics are not Christians?

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    Can someone answer a question for me.....do Catholics believe that Mary was sinless? And do they pray to her?

     

     

    The Catholic church does teach that Mary was sinless (and a perpetual virgin.) Yes, it is true that individual Catholics pray to Mary and that is also official teaching (praying to saints.) But you have to understand that within Catholicism there are different kinds of prayer. Prayer to Mary is considered intercessory prayer, or a prayer asking her (or other saints) to pray for something/someone. The problem that most Protestants have with this is that while we do ask other believers to pray for us, we see no Biblical evidence for asking deceased people to pray for us. Even if their souls are in heaven, there is nothing in Scripture to support that practice. In fact, we are told not to try and communicate with the spirits of the dead. (I understand that the lack of Biblical support is not problematic for Catholics, because the practice is supported by church Tradition and Deutero-canonical literature.)

    What is the argument that Catholics are not Christians?

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    Jumping in (with fear and trembling.)

    Credentials: Converted to Catholicism in college. Learned Catholicism from Dominican Friars, who are no slouches. Bachelor's degree in Religion. Presently worshiping in a Calvary Chapel, though my heart is torn between it and my Presbyterian (PCA) church.

     

    Okay, now my attempt to answer that question.

    After reading lo these many pages of questions and answers I am surprised that no one has made the distinction between what "individual Catholics believe/think/see" and the official teaching of the Catholic church. There is a difference.

    Although the Catholic Church is one Church, there are many different expressions of Catholicism within that one church. I have friends who run the gamut in their personal interpretations and adherence to various church teachings. This is why you can no more say "what do Catholics believe?" than "what do Protestants believe?" Of course there are universal beliefs, but people often differ in other beliefs. And official Catholic teaching is promoted in some places more than others. For example, the official teaching is that the use of artificial forms of birth control is sinful, (http://www.catholic.com/library/Birth_Control.asp) but I was personally advised by at least three priests to use it anyway. This isn't to go off into that tangent, but I'm just showing one reason that you need to actually clarify whether you're talking about the personal opinions of individuals or the stated teaching of the institution.

     

    Oh, and for the record. I believe that all churches contain some Christians and some people who think they are Christians. I personally became a Christian while I was still in the RCC, and I have friends whom I believe to be Christians who are practicing Catholics.

    Need input about the play 'A Streetcar Named Desire'

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    I'm torn as to whether or not even I should go see it. I kind of have a problem going to see things that my dd can't now that she's not really a "little" girl anymore.

     

    I'm trying to set a good example for her to follow, so seeing something that I would view as innapropriate for her at 10 (or even 15, I can see your point!), probably means that I shouldn't go to it either, simply out of principle.

     

    I don't really understand that line of thinking. There are many things that are appropriate for you that are not appropriate for a 10 year old. You are more mature and have a deeper level of understanding. You already know about rape and it will not come as a shocking "let me make sense of this" kind of thing in the context of a play.

     

    This play is actually a very compelling, well written, thought provoking piece of theatre. I would think that when she is doing high school level work this play would be on the reading list. But that's when she's in high school, not now. There are many great pieces of literature that are assigned to students of a certain age that are not assigned to 5th graders, that's just the way it works. Don't throw the baby out with the proverbial bath water, Mom. If you are interested in seeing the play, please go. If you're not all that interested, well then there's your answer. But please, don't feel that you need to limit yourself to things that are developmentally appropriate for 10 year olds. :)

    I want to change my board name but...

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    I agree that nosy people deserve what they find, but....

    I would also feel that my privacy had been violated.

    So if you feel that way, go ahead and change your name. I know of at least three people on this board who have done the same thing for the same reason, and they emailed me to let me know what their new names were. Especially now that we have pm-ing available to us, you can do likewise. Change your name and then pm a few of your buddies so that they know you're you.

     

    hth!

    :)

    If an ambulance pulls up to a neighbor's house, how nosy are you?

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    We don't know very many of our neighbors, but the ones next door to us are dear friends. They are an elderly couple, and they both have health issues, so yes, I'd go over there if I saw an ambulance. In fact, a couple of months ago we were leaving the house, and we saw an ambulance pull up. I went right over while the paramedics were there and spoke with our neighbor's granddaughter, who happened to be there visiting.

     

    There's a woman across the street whose dh travels a lot for work and she's got a toddler, so if I saw something I'd go check on her too.

     

    But yeah, we would go take a look.

    Teens losing touch with common cultural and historical references

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    Do you find this to be true? I know that I was familiar with these references when I was in high school, but I don't really know a lot of teens right now. Do those of you who regularly interact with high school aged students agree with this article?

     

    Teens losing touch with common cultural and historical references

    By Greg Toppo

    USA TODAY

    Big Brother. McCarthyism. The patience of Job.

    Don't count on your typical teenager to nod knowingly the next time you drop a reference to any of these. A study out today finds that about half of 17-year-olds can't identify the books or historical events associated with them.

    Twenty-five years after the federal report A Nation at Risk challenged U.S. public schools to raise the quality of education, the study finds high schoolers still lack important historical and cultural underpinnings of "a complete education." And, its authors fear, the nation's current focus on improving basic reading and math skills in elementary school might only make matters worse, giving short shrift to the humanities � even if children can read and do math.

    "If you think it matters whether or not kids have common historical touchstones and whether, at some level, we feel like members of a common culture, then familiarity with this knowledge matters a lot," says American Enterprise Institute researcher Rick Hess, who wrote the study.

    Among 1,200 students surveyed:

    •43% knew the Civil War was fought between 1850 and 1900.

    •52% could identify the theme of 1984.

    •51% knew that the controversy surrounding Sen. Joseph McCarthy focused on communism.

    In all, students earned a C in history and an F in literature, though the survey suggests students do well on topics schools cover. For instance, 88% knew the bombing of Pearl Harbor led the USA into World War II, and 97% could identify Martin Luther King Jr. as author of the "I Have a Dream" speech.

    Fewer (77%) knew Uncle Tom's Cabin helped end slavery a century earlier.

    "School has emphasized Martin Luther King, and everybody teaches it, and people are learning it," says Chester Finn of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, an education think tank. "What a better thing it would be if people also had the Civil War part and the civil rights part, and the Harriet Tubman part and the Uncle Tom's Cabin part."

    The findings probably won't sit well with educators, who say record numbers of students are taking college-level Advanced Placement history, literature and other courses in high school.

    "Not all is woe in American education," says Trevor Packer of The College Board, which oversees Advanced Placement.

    The study's release today in Washington also serves as a sort of coming out for its sponsor, Common Core, a new non-partisan group pushing for the liberal arts in public school curricula. Its leadership includes a North Carolina fifth-grade teacher, an author of history and science textbooks, a teachers union leader and a former top official in the George H.W. Bush administration.

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