Chuck Smith hospitalized after stroke

From the OC Register.

Where did Chuck Smith Jr Go???

Found Chuck the Jr

Holly Sikorski returns to CC ABQ

Holly has chosen (against her boyfriend Michael author of the Phoenix Preacher) to return to Calvary Chapel of Albq. Holly's post in Phoenix Preacher illustrates how people cling to false religion:

I don’t view his actions in that fiasco in the same lens as many here do. Why that is, I truly don’t know. I can’t wrap my mind around the level of hostility here about that certain pastor [ed: Skip Heitzig]. I can’t understand it. I see mostly the good and that it (the church) was a place where all of us (my family) came to faith and grew. Yes, there was some bad - jeesh, I was even told of an EXTREMELY negative, blatantly false and slanderous comment that was made about *me* from the highest in that church to a bunch of other pastors in a meeting!! You think THAT doesn’t bother me??? Then you are crazy. I have feelings too, and it still saddens me. So PLEASE don’t disparage me by implying I have a pollyanna complex in this. I have my own hurts!

I guess the difference between me and you and others here is that I somehow have in my memory banks the weird handicap of blocking out the negative that a person has done and dwelling on the positive instead. It gets me in trouble sometimes, because I “forget” things.

Some things I *can’t* totally forget, like what I mentioned above, but it is my issue to cope with. Which I generally do by pretending it never happened. It usually works but today I guess it isn’t.

I am aware of some of the negative things that occured (after all, I live in ABQ and read the Journal — it was THE story for months on end). I admit much of the stuff I don’t know, and I chose not to be told. I don’t *want* to know. We all have skeletons in our closets. There’s two sides to every story, and I wasn’t privy to the inner turmoil. How can I pass judgment one way or the other when I wasn’t involved personally?

It is a church my kids/I love and we have benefitted spiritually. Okay? In spite of whatever else. The good outweighs the bad, for us. Why is so hard about that to understand?

Unbelievable!