The Gift of Christmas Covid

Well, if we ever needed a reminder in my house that covid is still with us, my daughter provided it, on Christmas Day no less. She was a bit under the weather, so we tested her, and sure enough, she tested positive. Great, just great. She is, by and large, absolutely fine, as is my […]

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Writing Prompts: Create a Hypothetical Scenario

Well, this is terrifying. Imagine a scenario similar to the creepy and popular video game series, Five Night’s at Freddy’s. The souls of both evil murderers, and their victims, find themselves trapped in animatronic monstrosities. Instead of following the games, what if this happened for every murder?! The animatronic that the murderer and the victims […]

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Citizens and the Secular

A little ways ago now, I had been discussing ‘freedom from secularism’ with one Citizen Tom. As the World Cup is moving into a slightly less-hectic (arguably more stressful, but less hectic, yes, I know that’s a little contradictory) phase, I have some time on my hands, to delve back into our little ‘debate’. I […]

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Ignorance and Hubris

You have to love the deeply ironic – and arrogant – positions that some people take up, when they think they’re being clever. David Thiessen of Theology Archaeology responded to this post of mine, and also ‘addressed’ what Jill Dennison had to say in her excellent post. I shall quote his text in purple, and […]

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Plutocracy

Not for the first time, Jill Dennison has written an excellent post, regarding the myriad of problems that countries run into, when they let the super-rich pretty much rule unchecked. Is the USA, as it currently stands, truly a democracy? For that matter, is the UK truly a democracy (for we share many of the […]

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Evangelicals Lack Empathy

I’ve slightly paraphrased the title of an excellent post by my pal, Bruce Gerencser. In his post, Bruce once again highlights the rabid fury of the evangelical, of the fundamentalist. Bruce has bravely battled these cruel, cowardly haters for years, and continues to do so, despite no end to the tirade being in sight. I […]

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It’s Not a People Problem

In recent times, David Thiessen (who now appears stubbornly determined not to link to my site, or refer to me by any name when quoting me), responded to a recent post of mine about the Club Q shooting. Not for the first time, David manages to completely miss the mark, and proves yet again that […]

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Chesapeake

It has been barely a few days since the shooting at Club Q in Colorado. As people try to unravel what happened there, elsewhere, in Chesapeake, Virginia, others are learning of yet another, terrible, senseless act of gun violence. This time, it was at a Walmart store, and it seems the manager, under the guise […]

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