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What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.

Archive for April, 2005

The Unitarian Jihad Arrives!

Tuesday, April 19th, 2005 Posted in Humor | Comments Off

My Unitarian Jihad Name » is: The Sword of Warm Humanitarianism. Get yours.

New: Religious Video Humor

Monday, April 18th, 2005 Posted in Humor | Comments Off

Well, it turns out that the most popular page on this site isn't my blog, nor the introduction to Christian mysticism, nor the Theosis page. Nope, it's not even the Matrix review. It's the Bad Music Videos page, with about ...

Writing the Unwritable

Sunday, April 17th, 2005 Posted in Jesus / Christianity, Spirituality | Comments Off

Susie Miller at Sojourn Ministries has an interesting post which brought back memories for me: why i write G-d.... Coincidentally(?), my friend Trev sent me something he'd written, also using "G-d" throughout. During most of my undergraduate years, ...

This This-ing

Tuesday, April 12th, 2005 Posted in Poetry, Spirituality | Comments Off

pen scratching paper, making pretty marks marks stand for sounds, sounds stand for thoughts, thoughts stand for the jokes, the jokes we call our selves. pen scratching pager, making pretty marks why? the ...

Doubting and Faith

Sunday, April 10th, 2005 Posted in My Life, Spirituality | Comments Off

Today, I received an email from a reader in the Netherlands troubled by doubts. For me, I only began to believe after a time of doubting. I got the doubting out of the way in my youth, but I had ...

Farewell, John Paul

Friday, April 8th, 2005 Posted in Peace and Justice | Comments Off

I haven't read the book, but I've heard that in his novel Angels and Demons, Dan Brown (author of The Da Vinci Code) imagined the world largely ignoring the passing of the Pope. He was wrong. Very wrong. In fact, ...

Come as a Child

Saturday, April 2nd, 2005 Posted in Spirituality | Comments Off

Akilesh has a wonderful post at Graceful Presence about how awakening is a restoration of the original mind of the child. I hightly recommend it. Jesus said so many years to go to just come as a child. We can't accept ...

The Pope is Passing

Friday, April 1st, 2005 Posted in My Life, Peace and Justice, Spirituality | Comments Off

Throughout the day, I've gone to Yahoo! and refreshed the page to see if there's been any more news concerning the Pope. I'm 44 years old, and I was raised Baptist. After a born-again experience that radically changed my life ...