Parchment & Pen Blog

(Lisa Robinson) Yesterday, I got into a discussion with one of my classmates about The Bible mini-series. I wasn’t able to catch the first episode but I received some not so great feedback from multiple sources.  Sure enough, my classmate wasn’t impressed either and gave me his reasons. He noted how a number of people [...]

(Lisa Robinson) I confess, I’m a social media addict. Not a day goes by that you can’t find me on Facebook. I love the connectivity, conversation and in same cases, the opportunity to just act plain silly. But moreover, I love the exposure it brings to blog links and other avenues of information. I avoided [...]

(Lisa Robinson) Well, since TV shows do it, I thought I could too.  This marks the 100th episode, I mean post since I’ve been blogging here at Parchment and Pen since January 2009.  So it makes sense that I’d mark it with some thoughts on blogging.  A few may remember that I came on the [...]

I’m sitting in a hotel room right now. A pastor friend of mine is asleep in the bed next to mine. Cars are whizzing by outside my room. My eyelids are starting to get pretty heavy. It’s about 1:30 in the morning. For the last two days I’ve been traveling, with 13 other people, to [...]

It has been almost five years since I started blogging. Here is what I have learned. 1. Loneliness because of the “Blog Lobe” This one is a joke with a bit of truth. My friends are sometimes scared to talk to me because they know that in the back of my mind there is a [...]

First, read this excerpt from a book review about a person who claimed to have a near-death experience. (Note: not from a real book review.) “I have never heard such a stupid claim. The author is not in the slightest bit informed on the subject of truth. There is not a single doubt in my mind [...]

Yes, it is time again to remind our audience of the way we do things here at Parchment and Pen. We do have rules of engagement and there is a proper way for people to conduct themselves. One thing that I want to make sure of is that the conversations here move in a meaningful [...]

When I first started teaching the Bible about fifteen years ago, I was given a Sunday School class at my church. It was a “college and career” class. I was inexperienced in teaching and was very nervous every Sunday, but I had such a strong desire to teach I was willing to endure the stress [...]