Not sure who bugs me more...

When I began my journey becoming a US Army Chaplain I had to complete some graduate work in religion. While scouting out universities I stumbled across a one that was surprisingly biased. All applicants were required to sign two supporting documents:

The first was a statement that the Bible is the only word of God and all other texts including “The Book of Mormon, the Koran, the Torah, etc.” are false scripture and should not be included in one’s studies. 

The second required document explained the Trinity being God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost are one being and not three separate individuals and any other belief is false and would not be condoned at the university. 

Well then...it was quite clear that Jews, Muslims and Mormons were not welcome at that institution which was fine by me, if they didn’t want me then I didn’t want them. But I’ll be honest; there was still a sting of rejection. 

So naturally I was surprised to look at the news today and see that very same school, Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia, had invited Mitt Romney to offer the commencement address. I was baffled; a university that made it clear Mormons were not welcomed as students offered one of their highest honors to one of those exact same Mormons! And I was also baffled that one of those exact same Mormons would want to give the commencement address at a university that don’t really want people of his faith at their school! 

Well, as far as I can tell Liberty University hates Obama more than they hate Mormons even though Obama subscribes to a far more traditional form of Christianity than Mormons do. As for Romney…well he’ll go anywhere and say anything as long as it might get him a few more votes. 

Politics.

Our Vegetarian Menu

We have both at some point or another wrote about what we eat. We do this because we regularly hear from people upon learning we are vegetarians something to the effect: "Wow, what do you even eat?" The fact is with half a dozen cook books we end up eating a very diverse diet, rarely eating the same vegetarian meal twice. Someone recently asked me this same old question so here it is, our most recent menu:

1. Tortellini Salad and Crescent Rolls

Nothing fancy here, even the crescent rolls came from a tube, but plenty filling.

2. Irish Root Soup and Sourdough Rolls

Not sure why this is called root soup because it was primarily leeks and potatoes. Again, the rolls were store bought.

3. BBQ Seitan Sliders and Side Salad

Seitan is called "wheat meat" but tastes great and has a texture similar to a very lean meat. I like the stuff a lot and it costs 3-4 bucks depending on where you are shopping.

4. Black-Eyed Peas with Greens and Baked Sweet Potatoes

The greens we used was kale but turnip, collard or Swiss chard all work. Nothing tastier than a sweet potato smothered in butter and brown sugar.

5. Black Bean Tacos and Cilantro Lime Couscous

We mix black beans with green chilis and onions and used hard taco shells this time - toppings included sour cream, cheese, lettuce and peach-pineapple-chipotle salsa.

So that was our menu for about the past 10 days since we usually have leftovers once or twice. I think our bill was about 50 bucks or so and as usual we had way too much food! That's the other thing about veggie meals, they make a ton of food and are hard to cut down in size - I mean come on, how do you divide a can of black beans in half?

Give it a try, cook vegetarian for an entire week. Another one of our favorite comments is when people say they don't eat that much meat but every freaking time were over their eating meat! Seriously, nothing beats a clean conscience...