Fear

I spent a portion of the day — especially the nicely rainy evening in what has been a very rainy week for Tucson — retroblogging, which some of you may know as “writing in a journal.”
I am, I should note, a major moleskine geek. If they could get the internet on a moleskine, I’d die [...]

The cowardice of missionaries

For a long time after my encounter with Evangelical Christianity, I was a bit angry about the whole thing.
Writing about that time gave me a chance to look at it all anew (the last chapter was here. You can use that link to find the earlier portions, too). Have my feelings changed? Am I still [...]

Maybe I’d like the gospels better with the little guys at the bottom of the screen

You know, I was thinking at work today about my “The Thing about Jesus is” post, and I realized that, underneath it all, my reaction to the Jesus story is this:
I’m bored. Every time I read it, it bores me. Maybe it’s the story lover in me. I love me some stories, and this one, [...]