My friend Dawn wrote a post worthy of a Sunday; please read it: On Considering Compassion Well, as one who can dish out vitriol with the best of them, i can feel […]
The Best CDs of 2009, pt. 1: the Gold LPs
2009 was arguably the best year for new music since 1979, and that’s saying a lot, even if I’m wrong. For whatever reason, this year was just packed with incredibly great CDs […]
Nota Bene #95: STFU
Gonna try something different
Sundays with Uncle-God Momma: Eve was framed
Adam rested contentedly in the Garden. If we take The Book of Genesis at its word, all was perfect and pure. Opposites existed. There was, after all, a female companion for Adam […]
Nota Bene #87: Supersize Moi
There’s an old saying in Tennessee
Saving the Bible from pinkos and feminists
Modern Conservative is a powerful language, more capable than Greek or Hebrew of expressing the profound new concepts that Christianity introduced into the world. Evidently then, it needs to be applied to […]
Sundays with Uncle-God Momma: it's in the stars
One of the best facets of studying myth and religion is the amount of weirdness there is to be found. Some of the weirdness involves people interpreting myth and religion in new […]
The Summer of Hate provides a watershed moment for "reasonable Republicans"
I’m not a Republican, but I know many people who are. I have GOP friends, co-workers and family members, and for that matter I used to be a Republican myself. A long […]
Columbine and the power of symbols
Part three of a series. In the days following the murders at Columbine High School I visited the school and the grounds of Clement Park. Those walks produced this piece, which was […]
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