Forgiveness is Divine
The weirdest thing about forgiveness is that in the end it really isn’t about the person you’re forgiving, it’s about you.
Category: Books
Ten Shot: Swallows and Amazons
A quick take on the young adult movie from 2017, Swallows and Amazons.
Ashes in the Wind
Can two people set aside their differences and under the influences of hormones and hearts, live happily ever after?
The Twilight Zone
Everything you ever wanted to know about women, you can learn from reading “Twilight”.
To Stand Athwart Myth
To dive deeper into the implications of Mark Greif’s “Against Everything,” Roland Barthes’ “Mythologies” is required.
Rick Wilson’s 300 Page Diary Entry
If you are a Dem, liberal, progressive, or a conservative who thinks Trump is awful, Rick Wilson’s “Everything Trump Touches Dies” will reinforce and harden your views. It’s shock jock entertainment in written form. But other than a fan-fiction vignette with Ivanka and a weird homo-erotic fantasy involving Trump and Sean Hannity, there is nothing new here.
Techlash and Soulcraft
How Christopher Beha’s satire of celebrity culture creates space for the human in technology’s panopticon
Red Storm Rising in My Mind
Everyone has that favorite book they have played out as a movie in their imagination. Mine is Red Storm Rising. If done properly it would be not only an epic piece of storytelling, but timely as well.
An Economist Nitpicks Sci-Fi: Foundation and Chaos
In which an economist looks at one of the seminal science fiction works of the 20th Century.
Hillary Clinton Settles Her Accounts
Parting thoughts on the former next Madame President. (Or: I listened to 16 hours of Hillary Clinton so you don’t have to.)
Human Rights & God
Is “God” a necessary component to undergird universal human rights? And if so, what kind of God best serves the purpose and how compatible is the biblical God, and/or God of the various orthodox traditions with said purpose?
