Before I get started here, let me just get some qualifiers and caveats off my chest. I’m not a journalist, I come from a comfortable life of privilege, I didn’t study political science, and I’m no more informed about the intricacies and nuances of the Syrian war and refugee crisis than anybody else who reads the […]
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On faith, part 2
I didn’t grow up with religion in my house, but Trenton did; I really think those different experiences fundamentally shaped our respective attitudes about religion generally and Christianity in particular. Trenton was barely a teenager when he starting questioning what the adults were telling him in church. Up to that point, he and his parents […]
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On faith, Part 1
I am—have always been, truly—an atheist. Despite wrestling with various gray-scale phases of religiousness over the course of my life, I’ve never made it over that fundamental chasm, the binary yes or no of theism. Even when I desperately wanted to believe, I could never get there. I like to think I gave Christianity a […]
Read more...forgive us our trespasses
My grandparents are Episcopalian and drive an hour out of town every Sunday in order to attend a service that condemns pretty much everyone. Remember that schism a couple years ago, when the Episcopal church was considering separating from the Anglican community in order to allow gay bishops? My grandparents have been hopping churches ever […]
Read more...what I think about giving up stuff for Lent
I think giving up stuff for Lent is stupid. It’s not that I don’t value life changes and sacrifice, and I mean no disrespect to Catholics—it’s really to the secular community that I’m referring. If you’re a practicing Catholic and got up this morning to have some ashes rubbed on your forehead, carry on. But […]
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