What I Used To Dream

Here's something I wrote for a friend a couple years ago. She has kindly allowed me to share it here. This is for her, for my daughters, and for all daughters.    What I Used To Dr...

The No-True-Scotsman-Fallacy Fallacy

Sophomore philosophy students and internet atheists love to cry, "No True Scotsman" any time they see someone say, "Terrorists aren't Muslim," or "Hitler wasn't a Christian." This application of the N...

All Lives Are Created Equal

From Derrick Crowe: Folks, if you're getting bent out of shape about the phase "Black Lives Matter," and feel the need to respond with "All Lives Matter," think about our history a little b...

Richard Dawkins, Shut Up and Listen

If Richard Dawkins is honestly interested in liberating women oppressed by patriarchal religions—that is to say, if he's not just interested in the suffering of religious women as a foil for his ath...

It Is Well with My Soul

Jesus, why you so angry? We get it already. You have some problems with your religious leaders and institutions. But why you no focus on the positive? Why you always gots to be so negative? That whi...

A Revolution at WorldFest-Houston

One of the films I made last summer, Revolution, has been selected to screen (twice) at the 46th Annual WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival. This marks the second year in a row Jim Stark's g...

I Walk the Line

In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Zaphod Beeblebrox steals a technologically advanced spacecraft. He's not actually sure why he does this; he's President of the Galaxy and thus not in particul...

Ecce Homo?

Once, when I was teaching music at a Christian college, I was trying to explain some arcane bit of theory when one of the students blurted out, "That's gay." "Please," I replied, "let's not use the...

Man's [sic] Dominion

I've been thinking a lot about apocalypse. It might be because I'm reading The Walking Dead (a zombie apocalypse graphic novel) and Y: The Last Man (all the men on the planet except for one mysterious...

Truckin'

What a long, strange trip it's been.  I (successfully) defended my dissertation in May. It was an interesting if grueling process, and as formative and educational as writing the disse...

Note to Self - Now Available

My first film, Note to Self, which won the Platinum Remi Award at the 45th Annual Worldfest Houston International Film Festival, is now available for free online streaming at notetoselfmovie.com. It i...

Neil Godfrey's Reading Comprehension

Mythicist Neil Godfrey has displayed perhaps one of the reasons he's a mythicist: his poor reading comprehension. On the comment thread of a score-tallying post (because scholarship is sport for those...

Break on Through (To the Other Side)

Not long ago, I had a dream in which I rediscovered what it was like to believe in God -- a dreamscape epiphany. It was gone when I woke, of course, but I half-remember the feeling of something "click...

Blasphemy for God's Sake

A struggling Christian who shall remain anonymous emailed me with some questions about how to understand his struggles with some of the ignoble content in the Bible. I thought they were worthwhile, so...

To Tell the Old, Old Story

Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles...

Bohemian Rhapsody

Marvin stood at the end of the bridge corridor. He was not in fact a particularly small robot. His silver body gleamed in the dusty sunbeams and shook with the continual barrage which the building w...

Building a Mystery

I recently referred to myself as a "postsecular atheist," which I think might be fairly accurate if I knew what it meant. I've been wondering about that. Insisting that I'm technically a theological n...

I Am a Terrorist Sympathizer

I am a terrorist sympathizer. I sympathize with the women who live in poverty and fear, under the thumb of dictators installed by alien powers. I sympathize with the clerics who have witnessed a...

Note to Self: Teaser Trailer

Here's a black & white version of the teaser trailer for Note to Self. The composer is currently hard at work on the score, and we hope to have a release ready by early 2012. In the meantime, enjo...

Joshua Wrote the Battle of Jericho

Matthew Flannagan is apparently a glutton for punishment. He's certainly an accomplished straw-man artist. But what else is new? In my review of Copan's book, I critiqued Copan for stating that Joshua...