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“I wish I could help him” – Chapter 2

“I wish I could help him” – Chapter 2

The Kingdom of Heaven My earliest memories are tied to two powerful mythologies that have governed my life. The first of these is Star Wars. I remember being bundled up in the back of a station wagon with a Tupperware bowl of air-popped popcorn in my footie pj’s at the drive-in theater outside of Binghamton,...

“I wish I could help him” – Chapter 1

“I wish I could help him” – Chapter 1

Content Warning: this post contains frank descriptions of sexual violence and child abuse. I have included these as they are part of my personal history, and important to the discussion at hand. Chapter 1: Start at the beginning… Texas was mine, but I wasn’t sure I was going to live until morning to enjoy it....

Farewell, Joe. I’m sad to see you go…

Farewell, Joe. I’m sad to see you go…

In 1796 George Washington gave a famous farewell address in which he issued a dire warning about the nascent “German Republican Society” and the “Democratic Society of Pennsylvania.” Speaking plainly he predicted that these new political parties: Are likely to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert...

On my first voyage, meeting the fully animatronic Ouanni for the first time
On my first trip, children wanted to know what my character was about, so I was showing them some bounty posters for fugitives I was hunting
on the first trip we paid for the professional photo session, and the results were gorgeous

Galactic Starcruiser wasn’t a clickbait failure

With all the hype around Disney’s Galactic Starcruiser closing, the social media “influencers” have crawled out from under their respective rocks to dance on its grave with a collective cry of “told you so!” The problem is that by and large, these folks never took the time to try it out, so their “analysis” of...

The Job narrative and Evangelical confirmation bias

The Job narrative and Evangelical confirmation bias

Often as I scroll through social media or have conversations with my “nonvangelical” and atheist friends, we discuss their general sense of frustration with any effort to reach out and speak to evangelical people. The common gripes are often that conversations with evangelicals quickly devolve into discussions of theology and dogma, and that in those...