A Curious Girl: Christ and Christians

Eeek, I haven't written in over a week.

Going home Saturday! Yay! Never thought I would miss my hometown, but there you go, I do. Ooh, James sent me a tape of a service at church he preached during, it was nice to hear a bit of what's been going on, even if when we're at church I swear the music doesn't sound that bad.

Lessee... what have I been up to? Well Matthew and I went to creative writing group thingy Friday, and I actually scraped up the courage to read something out. It's quite Christmassy so I'll let you read it in a few days *blush* - I have a version online but I gave it some tweaking so I'll let you see the tweaked version.

Then we wrote something on stereotypes - we each wrote down a stereotype and picked one at random from the pile - I wrote a silly little passage about a failed artist who was 'probably a Southerner' (I take offence at that! :) we can't all live in the frozen north... of England)... and Matthew wrote a hilarious piece about an Essex girl which I'm going to steal from him and share with you if I ever get the chance. 'Crazy James' read out a couple of really funny pieces (the guy can angst and humour at the same time...), and Rachel (the chair) read out a really scary piece about a hypocritical Christian (which was a stereotype I contributed, actually, due to lack of imagination). It was odd, because my piece that I'd read earlier was very obviously Christian (well, Jewish - it's from Joseph's point of view) but didn't offend anyone. Rachel's piece, however, was horrific. I was expecting something Simpsons-ish or maybe even Adrian Plass-like, what we got was a piece that was frighteningly realistic about the most self-righteous, sanctimonious person who was as unlike Jesus as you could probably get.

It makes me think. I don't think the Bible is really that offensive - the gospels certainly aren't to most people. What offends people is us. *sigh*.

On the Saturday I went to the CU AGM, which was all right but I did wonder why I bothered. There was lots of prayer, which was good, although I wish the committee system was more open. Oh well - we have a new committee now, anyway.

Monday we went to the Liberal Democrat students' Christmas dinner - very nice... Makes me realise that I'm just not political though :)

Anyways, thank you Alice and Hsiu for your birthday wishes :D *sigh* I miss being able to use this diary for random thoughts but wait until Christmas, folks, and you'll get plenty then...

Random word for today: Unctuous

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