photo by mogmismoIt’s been a while since I wrote. There are a lot of reasons why, but the best one is that I didn’t feel I had anything new to say. I didn’t just not write here, I didn’t write. Some of you will understand what that’s like. To not write felt like I had [...]
It’s about power, not about God. Photo by MJ Mac. (License: Creative Commons Attribution)Last night, I went with my family to see The Golden Compass. Even if you are not a fan of the fantasy genre, you have probably heard about this film by now due to the efforts of some Christian groups to boycott [...]
Hell if I know…it just looked interesting. Photo by Cuspace. (License: Creative Commons Attribution)Of all the labels others have tried to stick to me in my life, there seems to be one that keeps coming around, no matter what face I may choose to wear or what path I am travelling: Idealist. It seems to [...]
The superhero lurking within… Photo by Kevin Tostado. (License: Creative Commons Attribution)When I was about ten years old, my Mom laid down the law: I was old enough to sleep in my room with the door closed and the light off. I don’t know exactly why she felt compelled to declare such a policy at [...]
Now, ignoring for the moment that I am fanatically agnostic, I started to contemplate today the pro-life argument against abortion. The argument I most commonly hear is that a fetus is a living person with a right to life, even if that life is a miserable one. Sometimes, in the case of the pro-lifer being [...]
Photo by Federico Paziente Years ago, I was privy to a very interesting discussion between my Mom and one of my friends. I had brought him over to hang out and catch up, and as usual he went and talked to my Mom, instead (this was a common occurrence in my life, but I’m not [...]