I was listening to Skepticality today (great podcast regardless of what you believe/don’t believe) and Swoopy interviewed Dr. Marc Bekoff about his book The Animal Manifesto. All in all, it was a good episode. Dr. Bekoff seemed like a good guest and for the most part I don’t disagree with a lot of what he [...]

In Episode 15 Leigh and I talk about how we as Christians have hijacked holidays like Easter and Christmas from their original owners. Music from3rd Man, called Blind Spot.

Well in an effort to see if my stuff is worth buying I have published a version of my short story “Bitter Release” through Smashwords. Smashwords is a website that allows authors to take their work and convert it into a wide variety of electronic formats and sell it. Smashwords gets a cut as does [...]

(The following is a bit ranty. You’ve been warned.) So in case you haven’t heard, there’s a bill that’s been passed recently that may have some implications on the future of our country. I haven’t read it. I don’t know if it will drive our country into the ground or lift us up into the [...]

So I finished the Stealing Jesus book a while back. It was … interesting. Bawer had the ability to both push my buttons and make me think. I was alternately pumping and raising my fist throughout. The basic premise of the book was this: there are two churches in America. The church of Law as [...]

This is one of those posts where I’m hoping that you, my wonderful readers, will comment at great length on your blogs and or in the comments below. I’m trying to figure out what the buzzword/catchphrase “social justice” means in terms of Christianity. Why? Well maybe you heard about what Glen Beck said: I’m begging [...]

In the Presbyterian Church we practice the baptism of infants. It was a bit of a change to me given my Baptist/Methodist background. Once I thought about it a bit and saw how it went down though I was largely okay with it. It’s basically almost identical to a baby dedication similar to what’s practiced [...]

This is my stab at Alan Knox’s Scripture as We Live It series, wherein he takes a piece of scripture and shows how we most often live it out. Apologies to Alan if this falls flat. But though we, or an angel from heaven, should preach unto you any gospel thing other than that which [...]

Here’s an interesting quote from Stealing Jesus: For some people “are atheists because of a higher implicit theism than that professed by believers. They reject God because His name has been taken in vain, and they are unable to distinguish between His holiness and its profanation.” In other words, they rebel, both intellectually and morally, [...]

According to Wikipedia “Parkour (sometimes also abbreviated to PK) or l’art du déplacement [1] (English: the art of moving) is the physical discipline of training to overcome any obstacle within one’s path by adapting one’s movements to the environment.” You’ve seen these guys jumping around like monkeys/Spiderman and in case you still don’t know what [...]