For the most part the Watchtower and Awake! magazines stick to selling their views and managing the members of the Jehovah’s Witness community. Every once and awhile, however, they decide to take a pot shot at the nonbeliever. The latest Watchtower magazine in it’s article “Is It Possible to Build Faith in a [...]
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Natalie Goldberg and the Accidental Buddhist
I just started re-reading a book I haven’t read in at least 20 years, Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg. I find it absolutely kick me in the nuts jaw droppingly amazing that despite the fact that I haven’t read this book since 1989 I remember it. I remember everything in here. [...]
Just Finished Reading The Making of the Fittest
I just finished reading Sean Carroll’s excellent book The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution. What a great book.
As somebody who has been interested in evolution since he was a kid (although for years I thought I was debunking it) I think there is little more fascinating than [...]
Certified Apostate
Last night I came home from work and found Cindy cleaning the kitchen. For those if you who are regular readers of my blog, my wife is Esther, Cindy is a friend who is staying with us for a few days. Anyhow, she and I got to talking and she told me about a conversation [...]
The Long Dark Night of the Soul
I’ve been trying to sleep for the last hour and a half. It’s about 3:30 in the morning. I fell asleep around 8:30 tonight, according to Esther. I don’t remember, precisely.
I got a letter from my grandmother today wondering if I was OK. She hasn’t heard from me in a while and she is [...]
New Episode of the Hue and Cry Podcast Available Now!
If you aren’t subscribed to my Hue and Cry Podcast, now’s a great time to start listening as the latest episode features an interview with James Zimmerman of http://www.watchtowerletters.com, a great site that will be of interest to anybody who is a Jehovah’s Witness, knows a Jehovah’s Witness, used to be a Jehovah’s Witness or [...]
Holding Back the Storm
I was just reading Thich Nhat Hanh on the subject of impermanence. He makes note of the fact that it appears that our suffering in life comes from the impermanence of things. Life itself is impermanent as death takes us all away in time and when we lose the ones we love, we [...]
Modern Mythology
Last night I saw Batman: The Dark Knight at the IMAX Theater at the Minnesota Zoo. The tickets were a bit steep but it was well worth it in my opinion. The movie was both larger than life and also, surprisingly, a commentary on the times we live in.
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In early 1995, shortly after my wife had beaten cancer and my mother had given birth to my baby sister Jasmine, I was feeling as if I were at my wits end from stress. I bottled up anger, bitterness, sadness, and even joy just so I could maintain a calm demeanor in the middle [...]
