The title? That’s a direct quote. It was stated by a man I’ve known since I was in elementary school. He also worked with my dad for twenty-some plus years and, to this day, they remain training partners. Anytime I’m back home in the fine state of North Carolina, I’ll hang out with them in […]
Jamie Arpin-Ricci is what happens when Franciscan sensibilities meet Anabaptist weirdness. Or, it could be the other around. I’m not sure. All I know is that if there is any hope for the possibility of Christian claims coinciding with Christian practices, I somehow think it resides within the aforementioned communities. Although, I’m certainly open to […]
I’m a bit peeved. It’s always been a dream of mine to write a book on the most brilliant anti-war film of all time. No, I’m not talking about All Quiet on the Western Front, The Thin Red Line or Pauly Shores’ In the Army Now. I’m talking about the greatest, quite possibly never-to-be-topped, most […]
In light of the absolute disaster that occurred in Ohio, where a man freed his more than fifty exotic animals prior to killing himself, I thought it crucial to point out the following documentary. The Elephant in the Living Room follows Tim Harrison (a correctional officer and exotic-animal rescuer) as he attempts to resolve various […]
In what appears to either be a parody of Christian film-making, or just another incredibly bad attempt to demonize evolutionary biologists, atheists, and people who wear sunglasses at night (I’ve never trusted those kids either), Suing the Devil claims to be an “epic, spiritual battle” involving a “thrilling faith-based” legal scenario where a janitor attending […]
I was recently fortunate enough to be interviewed by the ever so interesting folks down at The Christian Post. This makes two interviews with them in the last few weeks. Yeah, I know . . . I wouldn’t trust me anymore, either. Unlike my previous interview, A Man’s Search for Satan, (kudos to them for […]
Amish quarrels, when they do happen, normally result in either reconciliation, banning and shunning, and/or just more Amish factions. Their founder, Jakob Ammann, discovered the non-reconciliatory end of hard-core Anabaptist living the hard way–that’s what you get for trying to dis’ us, fool! The new trend is not so much to shun, but to, apparently, […]
Last Spring I taught a seminar for the Institute of Citizenship and Social Responsibility at Western Kentucky University called, Living Lives that Matter. I was probably the least qualified person on campus to teach it. It’s not that I haven’t lived an interesting life (combine a fierce Peter Pan complex with an often unexamined allegiance […]
I have just a few questions for the fine folks endorsing “See You at the Pole.” 1) Why a pole? For starters, it looks pretty damn pagan to me (and nothing against paganism–I love me some river nymphs). I wonder if it’s because Christians in the United States have turned their nation-state into an object […]