I was up early this morning, brought suddenly awake by a wrong number dialed to my cell phone.  Being wide awake – and I was, at least then, though I’ll admit to being a little bleary now – I ran through a quick check of all my social networks.  Now, normally I don’t use Twitter [...]

I found out this morning that Dr. George Tiller was shot and killed in the foyer of his church yesterday.
For those of you who don’t know who Dr. Tiller is, and why I care, I’d like to take you back to 1991, to the Midwest city of Wichita, Kansas. National right-wing and fundamental Christian [...]

Waiting.  Waiting is never easy, but…
They that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
I like to eat. More to the point, I like to go out to eat. It doesn’t matter if [...]

100 Words as a daily writing exercise is over, but I’m going to keep this up.  It won’t be a daily thing (or it might not), but it’ll be a bit of fun, and I intend on getting as many people involved as possible, perhaps even starting up a writing meme.  (Thank you, Shelli, for [...]

A friend of mine used to talk about an idea he called “The Jesus Box”, in which he suggested that the twenty-first century church venerates their own notion of who Jesus was rather than Jesus himself.  In other words, they create for themselves a little Precious Moments-esque Jesus-image, assign it a set of appreciated attributes, [...]

I’ve taken to reading quite a few blogs lately, not all of which would fit in my “normal” zone.  One I’ve been enjoying is Atheist Revolution, which is, per its name, a site which discusses the state of affairs for non-theists in the United States and abroad, and the needs such people have.  I’d like [...]