Since the World Cup ended, we canceled our cable and have spent this last month of the summer catching up on movies and documentaries on DVD. It turns out that the library has a lot more going for it than I had remembered, and not just the fetching book restocking gals. So the majority of [...]
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Anne Rice Outs Herself from Christianity
This week, Interview with the Vampire author Anne Rice officially outed herself from Christianity. Naturally, she did so via her Facebook wall. Here is the text of her post: “For those who care, and I understand if you don’t: Today I quit being a Christian … It’s simply impossible for me to ‘belong’ to this [...]
Love is Blind: From an Aficionado of LOST
Every wannabe wordsmith has a shoehorn in the toolbelt I often get my words confused. I am prone to becoming drunk with the potential power that the right words can provide to the right prose. Communication is all about pictures, and the emotions that those pictures bring to us. If a word creates a certain [...]
Insights from Samir Selmanovic
In January, I mentioned a new author named Samir Selmanovic, here on my blog. Actually, he a Christian pastor, and this book is about his spiritual journey from Islam, Judaism, atheism, and finally to Christianity. His beliefs are not so much a progression into Christianity, but rather a synthesis of these different chapters in his [...]
When I turned 20…
Tonight, as I write this, the sun is setting on my twenties. The third decade of my life comes to a chronological end at midnight. I happened to be born in the first year of a new decade (1980), so my twenties coincided with the 2000′s. It’s fun to reflect on milestones of life, and [...]
Samir Selmanovic – The Muslim Atheist Jewish Christian
A couple of months ago, I stumbled across a video about an author named Samir Selmanovic on Zach Lind’s website. If you don’t want to make the jump, you can just watch the video here: The video was exactly the breath of fresh air that my religion-weary lungs needed to take in. I started a [...]
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Tuesday Newsday – Roman Polanski Arrested
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What’s next for Jon and Kate?
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Daddy, why don’t you go to church with us?
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Are Brad Pitt’s beliefs worth more than yours? (Or less?)
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Elizabeth Lambert – AKA The Dirty Female Soccer Player
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Summer of Love
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Anne Rice Outs Herself from Christianity
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Gaps… Gotta Love ‘em!
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Atheists… who needs them?
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Love is Blind: From an Aficionado of LOST
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