I’ve got to give two big thumbs up for Hillary on this one, and that’s a hard thing to do for this lifelong Republican voting for Obama. After a weekend spent making direct appeals to gun owners and church goers, Hillary Clinton said Sunday a query about the last time she fired a gun or [...]

I’m in love with words and dusty books, the taste of deep red wine and salty ocean air, drunk on a lonely tune and a sunset sky. You might say that I am a romantic, in the classical sense. I go weak in the knees for ideas. I love nuance, symbolism, and possibilities. This makes me especially vulnerable to the seductive language of [...]

Note to self: Watch encore presentation of “God’s Warriors” on CNN Saturday night I forgot this was coming on this week and only caught the third part tonight, which focused on the struggle between fundamentalists and moderates within Christianity. Wow! Very well done. This is the kind of thing you need to watch with a [...]

Karen Armstrong on Fundamentalism (video) This is a segment of Robert Wright’s interview of Karen Armstrong where she addresses how we might bridge the gap between fundamentalists and secularists. The entire interview is almost 80 minutes long but is broken into segments by topic for smaller consumption, including science and religion, mystical experiences, religion in a [...]

Trying to describe the personal journey that I’ve been on for the last four years is like trying to nail jello to the wall.  I’ve gone through a thorough detox from vocational and institutional Christianity, plunged headlong into the “dark night of the soul,” and am slowly emerging with my head above unchartered waters. Bilbo’s story [...]