charity shout-out

I've mentioned this charity to a few people in the last week, and all of them responded with "Wow! How cool!"

For some reason, people seem to get really excited about charities they've never heard about before.


So, to provide some morning excitement...

You should all go and donate lots of money to Pads4Girls. Because they rock.


Pads4Girls aims to keep girls in third-world countries in school, by providing them with menstrual pads.

Normally, most of them don't have pads - so, every month, they miss a week of school. Over time, that adds up. So, this charity gives them a whole kit of cloth pads, so that they don't need to miss school while they're menstruating.

Go and donate!

words should mean things

One thing that really bugs me when discussing random topics with Christians is when someone will say:

"[this thing I don't like] isn't biblical."


You know what else isn't biblical?

- karaoke
- railway trains
- electric lights
- sushi
- hairspray
- skiing
- kangaroos
- tissues


The problem is, they're using "biblical" as the ultimate trump card, without thinking about what it means. "The Bible is good, hence 'biblical' is better than 'not biblical'," with no further justification needed.

And if I try to define what "biblical" could mean, well, there's "this thing is mentioned in the Bible", "this thing is approved of by the Bible", or "the thing could be argued for, using the Bible as support", for starters. Which might be perfectly relevant to the conversation - but if you don't say which one you mean...

...well, if you don't say, then I'm going to assume that you don't really know, because you've never had to put more thought into it than "is it biblical?" Whatever that means.