Peter Rollins has a propensity to say things that make you think, it’s this attribute that makes him one of the larger influences on my life. I had the pleasure of seeing him speak once, and the experience is certainly one that I would love to repeat (he actually spoke again the next night, but [...]
Note: I’ll keep this to religion, today, but these ideas can certainly (and probably will be by me) expounded out to America and our politics. There seems to be a bit of confusion between belief and certainty, and there relationship to faith. Faith, for many in the circles I grew up in, requires certainty to [...]
I was told recently that my habit of questioning everything is corrosive to my life. At first, I was a little taken aback at the time and kind of laughed it off, now that I’ve spent some time thinking about it, I’m going to say that person was quite wrong about the whole situation. (And [...]
I stopped posting because I no longer felt like this blog brought anything to the table. When you read some of the great blogs I read, and then flip over to this one, it feels like I’m simply repeating what’s already out there, and I didn’t like that. So… I took a month off. It [...]