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A huge thank you for sending out e-mail notifying me (and others, I'm sure) that this interview is here. I just finished listening, and I'm excited to hear the next installment. After this post, I'm heading over to Amazon to check out Kristen Skedgell's book.

Lots of information discussed and I'll need to listen to it again to process everything.

I chuckled at Pawtucket's first impression of VPW. Maybe that old teaching about first thought is correct after all.

Thanks again. This interview, and the book, are very important, and need to be heard.

And my favorite sloppy joe recipe is here:

http://www.veganchef.com/

Click on sandwiches, then scroll to pinto bean sloppy joes.

She has a lot of other recipes that are great, too.

I doubled this recipe, and used it for Christmas one year. I used red and green bell peppers, and thought I was very festive! Looking back, it was pretty hokey. But the recipe is good!

Stuffed Peppers

2T olive oil

1 onion, finely chopped (about 1 cup)

3 cloves garlic

2 cups finely chopped mushrooms

1T chile powder

1t salt

1(15-oz) can tomato sauce

1/4 cup water

1/2 cup quinoa

4 bell peppers

1 (15 oz) can black beans, drained and rinsed

1t maple syrup

Cilantro for garnish

In saucepan over medium heat, sauté onions in oil for 3-5 minutes, until translucent. Add garlic and mushrooms, sauté about 5 minutes. Stir in seasonings, quinoa, 1 cup tomato sauce, and water. Lower heat and cover. Simmer for 20 minutes, stirring occasionally.

Meanwhile, preheat oven to 350 and prepare the peppers: Boil a large pot of water. Cut tops off peppers and remove seeds. Boil for 5 minutes, and drain.

Combine beans and maple syrup with cooked quinoa mixture. Stuff peppers with filling and stand upright in a baking dish. Pour remaining tomato sauce over peppers and bake 15 minutes. Remove from oven, garnish with cilantro, serve.

I have lots of vegetarian recipes. Do you need fast and easy recipes to get a meal on the table quick, or do you want something more elaborate?

Here's a fast one:

Southwestern Red Beans and Rice

2 1/4 cups brown rice

3T olive oil

3 onions, finely chopped

1 green bell pepper, seeded, deribbed, and sliced

1 1/2T chili powder

1t cumin

1t garlic powder

3 (15 oz.) cans kidney beans, rinsed and drained

1 1/2 cups salsa

1/2 cup water

Tofutti Sour Supreme (optional)

Cook rice. Set aside and keep warm.

In a large skillet, heat oil over medium high heat. Add onions and bell pepper and sauté until tender, about three minutes. Add spices and cook for another minute, stirring constantly. Add beans, salsa, and water, cook about 5 more minutes.

Serve over rice with a dollop of Sour Supreme.

Serves 6.

A group of scientist took thier knowledge of the bible and set out to prove Creation from Gensis and actually opened a state of the art museum.

I looked on the site, and I couldn't find anything about the scientists. Does anyone know their names, or is there a link that tells me who they are?

428' today with 112' feet with nothing

WOO-HOO!

And a happy Father's Day to the step-fathers, the men who step-up when the birth father won't. I'm happy I have a wonderful Step-Father.

That's wonderful, Dooj! I'm so happy for you!

I looked at all your paintings that you have posted; they're all so beautiful. Have you decided whether you'll send more of your work to Italy? Will they be any of the ones you have posted here?

I don't know if you would call it strange, but I did a lot of searching after I left TWI.

I raised holy hands in a fundamentalist faith healing group.

I sat naked in a salt circle in a wiccan ritual.

I was audited by scientologists.

But here is where I have you beat, Imagine. I went back to TWI! Thankfully, I didn't stay long.

Wow Mo! You're an amazing person! It sounds like you're doing great so far. I wish I had your blood pressure.

I think your surgery will go well. Love and peace and health to you.

I babysat starting at 13 for 50 cents an hour, no matter how many children there were, but the parents usually gave me a little more. Then I graduated from high school, took PFAL, and babysat for free.

JAL, the Theisens, Jeff and Dan are being sued by MG from what I understand.

The people on the southside of Indianapolis speak with more of a southern accent than the northside. I heard its because the people who settled there came from Kentucky, but who knows what the real reason is.

I'm surprised this style is still around. My son dressed like that when he was in middle school, 6 years ago.

I voted people should dress how they want to. I agree it looks silly, but the way I dressed when I was a teen makes my children laugh. Think day-glo polyester. I also remember my mother telling me to change my clothes before I left the house more than once.

You want to know what really bugs me? Trying to find jeans for myself that come up high enough. Maybe I'm looking at the wrong stores, but it seems like all the jeans for women are either mom jeans or super low rise.

Well, Billy, you're right, but I'm sorry you are. I guess I wanted the leadership to be stand-up guys, ya know? The kind of men who would say, "Look, here's what's happened, and here's where we are now. I made mistakes and I'm willing to be man enough to take whatever I have coming to me." The kind of men who hold themselves to a higher standard than a court of law, the Word of God.

You're also right about most of what you said regarding JAL. He said only the anonymous were without love or courage, so since I don't use my real name to post, I took it personally. I wonder about your last sentence, though. If JAL doesn't intend to hurt people, why does he do it so often, and so well?

I got Midland (like Rhino) which is right because I grew up in Indianapolis. But when I took the other American accent test, my results were Wisconsin/Chicago area, which is also right, because that's where I live now. I guess my accent goes back and forth depending on whether I've been talking with my birth family, or my married family.

Rolling Stones - This Place is Empty

Its not the usual Stones song. Its kind of sad, but sweet.

Happy Birthday, Sushi! I hope you have tons of fun today!

Not giving public details in the midst of ongoing litigation is hardly the same as sweeping something under the carpet. JWS did allude to the disagreement on the board in a recent Sower intro, but I'm sure it's as far as he dared go lest he's sued too! Many of the "rank-and-file" know what's going on, because they've called the individuals involved to find out. Others have made the choice to just step back and not get involved.

You may say that ongoing litigation isn't a valid excuse for being tight lipped. Perhaps you'd have a different opinion if you were the one on the other end of the lawsuit. Guess we'll never know.

I don't understand the concern CES has with this lawsuit. If CES was just any organization, that would be one thing, but CES claims to know the Word of God, and claims to have Godly prophets. Don't the leadership of CES think God is bigger than any lawsuit? Are they so afraid of lawsuits that they refuse to speak the truth? Isn't that why there are prophets, so the truth is told? Isn't that why we have God's Word? For truth?

And if it did, if the folks at CES/STF accounted, asked forgiveness and treated people with love from this point forward (as much as is humanly possible, at least!!!), would folks like you let it go, or would you look for something else to harp on? I wonder.

I would like it if JAL would apologize for calling the people of Greasespot cowards without love.

You came here asking the question -- *WHERE'S THE BEEF!!!

:D

I agree with DMiller. I am an x-Methodist, but my time with them is nothing like my time spent with TWI. I didn't suffer physical or sexual abuse from Methodist clergy. I was never a victim of a violent attack, nor did I witness any while I went to church. The church members never betrayed me. I don't need to find an x-Methodist group.

I came to Greasespot to find comfort and support, but I also found so much more. A few old faces, a lot of new information, and lots of smiles and laughs. That's why I'm drawn here.

Happy Birthday, Bowtwi! I hope your day is as wonderful as you!

What is it with boys and senioritis? My son was the same way. Thankfully, it only lasts a year!

Congratulations! And what a beautiful family you have!

I've heard some pretty awful stories about how K-9 officers train their dogs. If even half of the stories are true, its no wonder police dogs act the way they do.

Its silly to prosecute someone for making faces at a dog. Dogs percieve things differently than people do. If I looked another person in the eye and smiled, they would think I was being friendly, while a dog would think I was wanting to fight by making direct eye contact and showing my teeth. Who knows what kind of faces this woman made, and what the dog thought about it. The woman might have been stupid, but not criminal.

I don't know anything about covenant theology, but I have done alot of thinking about what happens to us after we die. What made the most sense to me was universal salvation, where everyone (without exception) will be with God.