I’ve gotten to know people with an incredible variety of beliefs regarding God’s existence. I cherish those friendships and conversations that I’ve had. If you sense a “but” coming, you’re wrong, generally speaking. One of those people is Derek Colanduno of the Skepticality podcast. While he and I don’t know each other particularly well, we’ve [...]

*BLOWS THE DUST OFF* Oh hai! I haz blog!! So, I’m listening to NPR this weekend and something comes on the radio that almost made my head spin. Apparently, the church building/expansion business in Winston Salem is booming! Why would that make me angry? Or even just a bit miffed? Isn’t that a good thing? [...]

If you find yourself doing any of the following, step away from your ministry and take several deep breaths – “Rocking out” in a suit and tie. Using scary ventriloquist dummies (any of them really). Ranting about “the culture” and how sinful it is. Using “cute” church signs. “Reclaiming” ANYTHING. This note is not telling [...]

So I heard about this on NPR and now read about it at the Washington Post, the Christian Legal Society is going to battle for its right to discriminate against homosexuals and non-Christians. Apparently the University of California’s Hastings College of the Law has a policy that if you are to be an officially recognized [...]

This is a clusterf- a big mess.  Our president has won the Nobel Peace Prize.  Now we could sit here and argue about whether or not it is premature (it likely is, depending on how you look at it).  We could even argue about whether or not he could do anything to deserve it ever.  [...]

I was sent a link to the Conservative Bible Project – Conservapedia by a friend last night and then Sid tweeted about it this morning. It is an effort by political conservatives to correct what they view as errors in translation due to bias in “converting the original language to the modern one” by “retranslating [...]

There seems to be a trend on the rise in America. If you don’t like something or you disagree with it then you paint it as evil. I know that this is certainly nothing new. It just strikes me as being more pervasive now than at any other time in my life. For instance, if [...]

One thing I’ve noticed about human nature is that the more convinced one is of one’s correctness, the more strident one typically becomes. This seems particularly true when it comes to people on the extreme ends of the political and religious spectrum, though it’s not limited to those topics. I recognize that this level of [...]