Blazing with Rach!

  So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him;   male and female he created them. - Genesis 1:27 Male and female he created them, and he blessed them and named them Man when they were created. - Genesis 5:2 Every time I see the media and others celebrating biological men winning in women's sporting events, I call it out as "the suppression of women and womanhood". There has been much in the news about this ridiculous but successful attempts to undermine women. The language of the media, the victim mentality of people confused about their own gender, the continued curses of politicians and celebrities definitely help with this suppression. While there are some voices of both men and women decrying this discrimination and injustice, it does not seem loud enough. The voices and the forceful push to accept men who think that they are women and dress like them despite having the physique and genitals of a man is absolutely disgusting, shameful a...

  This is, at this point, a difficult blog to write. I needed time to process what I knew (which was almost nothing), what I now know and how I felt about this knowledge. Current Türkiye I was in Izmir (ancient name: Smyrna, as in Revelation 2:8), Türkiye recently to attend the ICETE Consultation 22. We discussed on issues related to theological education, both formal and non-formal, re-connected with old friends and connected with new ones. It was a time of learning, reflecting and enjoying good fellowship. Well, our hotel was just ‘next-door’ to Ephesus, about 11 minutes car-ride away and I was excited to visit it with my friends. A week earlier, I had visited Pammukale by myself with a    small cozy group of strangers from India, USA and Spain. During both visits, the tour guides never mentioned the historic background that is a thread all the way to Armenia. So, imagine my surprise and shock as I learnt the truth about the regions in Türkiye and how they acquired t...