by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Oct 13, 2025 | culture, Entertainment, loneliness, woundedness
David Foster Wallace: “In his 1992 essay “E Unibus Pluram,” he calls this a “new vision of the USA as an atomized mass of self-conscious watchers and appearers.” Our Shared Reality Is About to Self-Destruct Instead of participating in a “community of relationships,”...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Sep 28, 2025 | books, change, community, culture, free speech, generations, healing, leadership, religious movements, Spiritual abuse, spiritual growth, Spirituality, Teaching, Uncategorized
“The human condition is not one of problem solving, of wanting to know better in order, then, to do better, but rather, to be human is to not to see that which is right in front of you.” Anne Kennedy, Demotivations, at Substack, on the horror of Nigerian genocide of...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jun 3, 2025 | communication, culture, evangelism
I have a friend who is a retired AF JAG officer, retired private atty and former state regulatory administrative officer. He told me that he’d always been impatient with and dismissive of “spam” marketing callers….. until he found himself widowed. A devoted follower...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Apr 17, 2025 | communion, culture, Facing fears, Suffering
In a recent webinar on spiritual conflict resolution, the facilitator referenced A.W.Tozer who observed that our necessary task in spiritual conflict is to keep Christ at the center of our vision. When we do, if the devil is lurking, he will only be seen at the...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jun 2, 2024 | Cultural Issues, culture
“Jesus was a convicted felon”just further evidences how far God, incarnate in Jesus Christ, was willing to go to identify with the broken humanity He came to redeem….. even bearing the taunts and humiliation of ridicule of pointed fingers of mobs and authorities to...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 13, 2024 | boundaries, culture, Prayer
Why “no alcohol on beaches” is a good thing during Spring Break….. from a 3/14/2015 post: “I heard about a sad account of a young lady assaulted by two guys with intent to rape her yesterday at PCB. Everyone involved was drinking. She got away but...
