Monday, January 13, 2025

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I deleted my Twitter account back when Elon Musk took it over and rebranded it as "X".  Last week, after Mark Zuckerberg announced...
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Thursday, November 28, 2024

Trumpism Is A Cult

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    I'm no authority on politics, just a guy with some opinions. So here's a not-particularly-groundbreaking opinion:   The United ...
Friday, November 15, 2024

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I've known several transgender people in the course of my life. You quite possibly have too, and may not even know it. They're not...
Saturday, June 01, 2024

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  Yes, Donald Trump is despicable, and has been that way for a long, long time. But he's just a man. What really concerns me is the en...
Wednesday, May 29, 2024

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  I've been watching and reading about the recent McCarthyesque hearings on Capitol Hill regarding antisemitism on college campuses. Lo...
Monday, May 27, 2024

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  The most evil and tragic of human enterprises is war. Memorial Day should be a day of somber reflection on the terrible (and almost always...
Tuesday, July 12, 2022

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  When I was a conservative evangelical Christian, I went along with the party line (on any number of issues) because I was constantly being...
Monday, June 13, 2022

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  I wrote what's below as a reply to a comment in a recent Facebook post of mine regarding the Uvalde, TX school massacre. The commente...
Sunday, January 09, 2022

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  For a significant chunk of my adult life I was a fundamentalist, charismatic Christian--part of the Vineyard churches. Some good came out...
Saturday, October 02, 2021

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  Two caveats I try to always remember: 1. Beware of false dichotomies. 2. Beware of false equivalencies.
Sunday, March 28, 2021

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  Today is Palm Sunday, a day that commemorates Jesus's "triumphal entry" into Jerusalem. This was an incredibly subversive ac...
Saturday, January 30, 2021

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  The other night my reading of Carl Sagan’s The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark took me off onto a tangent of learnin...
Friday, November 27, 2020

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  I have this weird thing where if I have blood drawn while sitting up I am likely to pass out. It isn't an aversion to blood; it's...
Wednesday, November 25, 2020

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I sometimes joke that I entered seminary as an evangelical Christian and departed as an agnostic Buddhist. It's an oversimplification,...