Ok, ready for a confession? An embarrassing confession? I watch The Challenge dang near religiously. Like, every week. I even have started listening to a stupid podcast about it. Every. Stinkin'. Week. Chris got me started watching this show and I... I can't quit it. OH THE LEVELS OF DEPRAVITY TO WHICH WE SINK IN…
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.Carl Sagan I recently finished reading A Canticle for Leibowitz, which is one of the best post- (and pre!) apocalyptical novels I've read in a long time. I feel and think many things about it, but one of the things that it made me continue to think about…
I recently read a Vanity Fair article on the many, many issues in Hillsong Church. It's horrifying. I have many thoughts about churches and church communities and the abuse or manipulation that is often excused as "tough, biblical love", but today I am mostly pissed at one thing: So many of these harms against women,…
I've been going through some stuff lately (not much I can share on this public, though little-read, blog). One thing my therapist reminded me is that I am not in charge of other peoples' happiness. That's their job. My happiness is the only happiness I'm responsible for, and I need to let go of any…
I've talked about this a couple different times (why do I always think of land acknowledgements while lifting weights? The world may never know....). I am happy to say that I finally put together my Indigenous Peoples' Land Acknowledgement. Leaders in my organization encouraged us to put one together based on information and guidance from…
I have a small theory about why we developed ethics. I am sure this has been brought up and developed somewhere by people far smarter than me (the connection between the two has been explored quite a bit), but I thought it worth writing out here. (I mean, what is a blog for if not…
My first "read" book of 2021 was Dan Ariely's The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty. It's awesome. And terrifying, if you are someone who is earnestly trying to strive for honesty and believes honesty to be a bedrock of the moral life. (I still question just how far to take the goodness of honesty, but I'll…
I've been thinking about honesty a lot lately. Our country is undergoing a crisis of honesty, where we can't rely on some of our institutions and media to tell us the truth, and thus can't rely on others to have the truth to give us. Being "honest" these days can be fraught, difficult, uncertain, confusing.…
I READ A NOVEL! Something other than The Oxford Handbook of Philosophical Theology. WOO freaking HOO. And it was great! It feels kinda weird to write a blog post that isn't about the OHPT, but here we are. Happy almost-2021. So just prior to the intensity of my recent "final ethics paper + final French…
I've been thinking a lot about the remarkable resistance of a number of Christians to the reality of science. Evangelicals have been shown to be three times more likely to flout CDC guidelines on COVID preparedness. Evangelicals don't want evolution taught in schools. Evangelicals want to ban abortion but don't want to do any of…
