Mythologist Joseph Campbell talked many times about giving oneself over to the sacred stories in order to experience the reality of them. I think that many times those of us who consider ourselves followers of a faith tend to go through the motions, rather than allow ourselves to become really engrossed in the sacred. I know that is true of myself ( Read more... )

The thing with this type of media-tie in book is that such books tend to keep things status quo.  There are very few deep messages and no character growth, just plot driven adventure.

That is what has made this run of Star Trek books particularly pleasing. There is growth, change, and loss. In Greater Than The Sum we have even more. There is a ( Read more... )

Yesterday, I attended my uncle's funeral.  Afterward, the members of his church provided a meal for the family in the fellowship hall. The husband of a cousin  proceeded to begin talking about the election, the end of days, and about how God will work things the way He wants them. He also made the comment that some people would vote for the Devil, ( Read more... )

Over 10 years ago, I worked as a manager of a shoe store(let the Al Bundy jokes commence) in Greensboro, NC. One of my regular customers was this grandmother who would bring her grandson in for a pair of shoes semi-regularly.

I was helping them with a selection when she looked at me and said, quite out of the blue, " Do you want a wife?"
I was a bit ( Read more... )

This is a bit of a sequel to the last post, dealing with how faith will play a role in married life for Samantha and myself ( Read more... )

I was raised in a fundamentalist Bible-Belt church that was firmly rooted in Armenian theology. The experience was a bad one, as I discussed in my first post on my faith from May. 2nd, 2008. When my  father passed away in 1989, I felt a spiritual presence in the room that took me from from atheist to believer in a spiritual dimension. I really ( Read more... )

I’m going to be doing a series of blog entries about my spiritual journey. I’m doing this for a couple of reasons.  The first is to get it out of my system. I have so much bottled up inside me that I need to let out. The next is to share in the chance that someone who has had similar trials might find encouragement or a brother. What I am not doing ( Read more... )

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1) I am a member of the Hardcase Crime Book Club. I get a copy of their latest novel each month, which may be new, or maybe a reprint of a long lost and forgotten pulp crime classic. The stories are great and the covers are classic pulp style from the 1940's and 1950's. 
http://www.hardcasecrime.com/

2) I almost always pull off my glasses when I sit ( Read more... )