I have been a fan of Bright Eyes, and of their lead singer/songwriter Conor Oberst, for a little over a decade. Despite his being a bit off his game when I saw the band live (drunk), and despite his not having the best voice out there (understatement), his powers with a pen are admirable to […]
Category: Humanity
“Musings of a Misfit Catholic”
I know, I know: It has been ages since I last posted anything here. I have been wanting to reboot this site for a while, so we’ll see how that goes. For now, though, I just wanted to give a quick update on the status of the book I have been working on for Random […]
Embracing Your Inner Pagan
In the most recent episode of Drunk Ex-Pastors the topic of narratives came up. My contention was that if there is an idea or line of thought that is almost universally recognized, then odds are that the idea is actually true. For example, if the knee-jerk attitude of most people is that we ought to love […]
Give Peace a Chance, or Something
I have mentioned it before, but being Catholic has had a mellowing effect on me. While a lot of guys from my former theological circle (Old School Presbyterianism), when they convert to Catholicism, tend to seek out an equally staunch Roman version of what they left behind (conservative Latin Masses, for example), I didn’t really […]
Where the Hell are All the Real Christians?
We’ve had almost 300 listens to our third episode of Drunk Ex-Pastors in just a few days (whoa!), but for those of you who haven’t heard it yet, co-host Christian and I debate a religious point that I would be curious to get some feedback on. He contends that 99.99% of fundamentalist Christians don’t actually believe their […]
Suicide and Failing the Compassion Test
As I highlighted in my latest post and feared would only continue, the response to Robin Williams’s suicide, especially on the part of Christians, has left much to be desired. First we had Willis from Diff’rent Strokes waiting all of seventeen seconds after the news broke to pat himself on the back for turning to God […]