Monthly Archives: January 2017

I’ve long believed that the literary Jesus is akin to Paul Bunyan, obviously not a real person but grounded in the life of an actual human being around whom some distinctive characteristic caused fantastic tales to accumulate. I think that, … Continue reading →

How much suffering, death, and loss must happen before Christians are willing to admit that, when it comes to the machinations of men, God is nowhere to be found. The only gods at work in the affairs of men are … Continue reading →

Though it appears as a comment on a blog post about (at least nominally) an unrelated topic, Jeri Massi makes an observation about fundamentalist ‘family values’ that jibes nicely with something I’ve said repeatedly over the years: For some odd … Continue reading →

Back in the long ago, in those dark and forbidding days before the invention of the fax machine, every engineering firm in Orlando, Florida, had somebody on staff who was known as ‘the runner.’ The runner was an older teen … Continue reading →