Perhaps my favorite Christian song ever written is Never Lie by Daniel Brindley (brother of Luke Brindley, who is a lyrical force in his own right). I'm not actually sure if it was titled Never Lie or not because I got it from the artist himself when we roomed on the...
I tried my very best to hold it together for the kids this morning. They knew exactly why I was upset. I bit my lip, with a flush red face and held back my tears. I talked to them about the importance of being politically active as a grown ups in much more than just...
Every week after I attend a church service I tend to have an extra measure of depression. I'm not sure if it's beamed directly from God or it's something more mundane. This time it was a Catholic church where we were ignored and they spent 12 minutes asking for...
I was messing around with the ESV API and tried to produce an online Bible that reflected the way our generation actually reads. It still has some bugs in it but you can see it here. Today it's going really slow for some reason I think my IP is being throttled by...
The U.S. government was going to fake Jesus' second coming to overthrow Fidel Castro.
There is little Christians, particularly Christians that prescribe to the prosperity gospel, hate more then people with disabilities. The stench of unanswered prayer precedes us. We make prayer look bad but since Christians aren't allowed to attack God they use us...
I think I have a poor capacity to process negative emotions. For example most of my life my radar has been jammed by shame (for looking/being different, not having a job, a place, and SO, etc..). This has drowned out the guilt I'm supposed to feel that would goad me...
<<<my self>>> is the only protection i have against the experience of the supernatural (sewer-pernatural?) God, Satan, and all the rest they have little in common except for their hatred of me psychosis is often a polite and urbane way of saying one...
Though I'm pretty godless I still pray once in a while (because I've experienced too much of the spiritual world to be an atheist). I find now that I'm more distracted with my eyes closed than open (because my mind is in overdrive). So I pray with my eyes open.
Comment I posted on Reddit thread how millennials are checked out of work: People are just wising up. In America religion was a catalyst to getting employees to put their nose down and work hard and employers (at their best) would agree to treat their employees...