“The third planet is sure that they’re being watched by an Eye in the Sky that can’t be stopped. When you get to the Promised Land, you’re gonna shake the Eye’s hand.” Isaac Brock’s dangling forceful voice interrupts sparse acoustic guitar picking somewhere in the first minute of the opening track of Modest Mouse’s 2000 … More The Moon and Antarctica

So, I figure since the whole Derek Webb theme seems to be working for me, why not stick with it? You may or may not have seen a few posts about this on social media, but I’ve been getting a ton of positive feedback on my last post which is kind of about Derek and … More I was Wrong, I’m Sorry, and I Love You

I am 15 years old. I am in my older brother’s room, in the house where we grew up. I don’t get invited there often, so I’m honored and confused, and very attentive. I hear the guitar, the gentle finger picking, and the raspy, pleading voice ring out, “I’m reminded of the streets of my … More And All I Got in the Divorce was Derek Webb

There is this compilation of the cheesiest instrumental Christmas songs ever collected called the “Narada Christmas Collection, Volume 2.” A routine of mine when I was young, during the summer, no less, was to sit at my family computer, equipped with Windows 95, and play a computer golf game… while listening to Christmas music. Imagine … More An Empty Stable

I have thought endlessly on how to write about this topic, about what to say. From conversations I’ve had with people, this is one of the most polarizing beliefs anyone can have. Many people don’t want to talk about or consider it at all. Others admit the issue, but leave it there. But curiously, I … More An Honest Conversation About Hell

I’ve been thinking a lot about my journey. Reading through the emails that chronicled my fall will do that, I suppose. Part of what has been established by the first few exchanges is that I was plagued with doubt, and the answers I was hearing, again and again from the Christian perspective, were not sufficient. … More Emails From a Skeptic, The Final Email

It’s hard to know what to say about this, as I read back at a particular moment in my life. Martin, Ernest, and I exchange a pretty good chain of emails here, and I think it becomes apparent in my email that I am becoming weary of the mantra of Christianity. Listen in…  / / … More Emails From a Skeptic, Part Three

Something that strikes me about reading the following exchange is how these concepts don’t magically go away with the absence of a Christian worldview. The idea of “Free Will” and “What Love Really Is” are thought-provoking regardless of what you believe. A perfect deity certainly makes it more complicated, as you will see. Perhaps you … More Emails From a Skeptic, Part Two

There is a popular theologian who happens to reside right in my backyard by the name of Greg Boyd. He is a brilliant thinker and noted for coining “Open Theology.” Without going too in depth, it’s an attempt at reconciling God’s omniscience and our human free will. I’ve always been fascinated by such things.  Boyd … More Emails from a Skeptic, Part One

“Dear World, We’re Sorry. -Christians.” I couldn’t believe what I was holding in my hands. What was merely a clever flier in the mail for a new church opening in our area, appeared to me in that moment as a sign from God. There are all kinds of different denominations of Christianity. The version I … More I Don’t Wear a Name Tag Anymore