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Anne Rice

Anne Rice Outs Herself from Christianity

by Zac on Jul 31, 2010 in Celebrity, Culture, Movies, Personal, Writers

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 [...]

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Atheists… who needs them?

by Zac on Jul 11, 2010 in Culture, Writers

With a title like this, you may think that I’m out to stir up trouble. And you’re right, but it’s a real question that seems to have various answers in various contexts. I’ve been wondering a lot lately about what feelings a religious person might have towards someone who is either staunchly or passively anti-religious. [...]

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Samir

Insights from Samir Selmanovic

by Zac on Mar 27, 2010 in Culture, Personal, Writers

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 [...]

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Samir Selmanovic – The Muslim Atheist Jewish Christian

Samir Selmanovic – The Muslim Atheist Jewish Christian

by Zac on Jan 31, 2010 in Culture, Personal, Writers

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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Zac and Kiefer

Daddy, why don’t you go to church with us?

by Zac on Jan 17, 2010 in Personal

This morning, while sitting at the kitchen table, the question that I had expected my son to eventually ask me, was finally asked.  After taking the self-applied clip-on tie off of his undershirt, buttoning his top button, and correctly reseting the tie, he looked at me and said: “Daddy, why don’t you go to church [...]

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