This is the story I wrote for episode 2 of the Unfolded podcast. Please go listen to it here. … There once lived a family of mice in a small, peaceful town called Sheepsgate, which was situated between the endless mountains in a beautiful, picturesque river valley. At first glance one could make the mistake…
Diary
One of those ordinary special moments.
This is an acknowledgment. A recorded recognition of something special that has transpired, written down in an effort to preserve it so that it will never be forgotten. I want to take a moment to thank my wife Natalie, whom I love with all my being, for a brief moment we spent together in time….
My Time Has Not Yet Come – Unfolded Ep. 1
This is the first story I wrote for the Unfolded podcast. You can listen to it here. … “Hey, what kind of hot dogs do you want?” I said, turning just in time to see Moshe disappear down the snack aisle. “Weird,” I said to myself. “I thought he was right next to me.” I…
Unfolded Episode #1 – My Time Has Not Yet Come
The First episode of my podcast has dropped over at Homebrewed Christianity! Matt and I are pretty excited. We’re hoping people enjoy the show, we both have been working really hard on it, that’s for sure. This week’s premier episode features a short story that takes place in a supermarket located in a small rural…
Get ready to be Unfolded!
I’ve been really busy lately, mostly with being a Dad (as natural as walking on grass!), but Some of the stuff I’ve been doing is design related too. Hopefully I’ll be posting some of that work soon. Speaking of design, I’m even thinking of redesigning this site. So that will be cool. I’ve also been…
You don’t have to be a monster to do monstrous things | Chris Haw & Insights into Evil
The rhetoric of Americans being the good guys and of all the bad guys being out there made me suspicious. I grew suspicious, not only by the irony of Christian calls to war, but by studying. Studying sociology, I learned of the startling Zimbardo prison experiment at Stanford, wherin a dozen students, prescreened for mental…
Jesus, the Anti-Hero
This was originally published on Matthew Barlow’s blog on December 27, 2012. … Since the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary I’ve had a few back and forth duels on facebook about gun control, mostly sparked over a few things that I posted. I didn’t necessarily mean for these posts to be inflammatory or controversial, it…
An Armed Society is The Opposite of A Civil Society
“This becomes clear if only you pry a little more deeply into the N.R.A.’s logic behind an armed society. An armed society is polite, by their thinking, precisely because guns would compel everyone to tamp down eccentric behavior, and refrain from actions that might seem threatening. The suggestion is that guns liberally interspersed throughout society…
Who Took The Purpose Out of Science? (Nagel, Cobb, Whitehead & Teleology)
“The problem is one of opposition between subjective and objective points of view. There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality. But often what appears to a more subjective point of view cannot be accounted for in this way. So either the objective conception of the world is…
Richard Wolff Explains The Delusion of Regulation
Broadly defined, the government intervenes economically by regulating the economic interactions among and between enterprises and individuals. It does this by taxing their activities (earning income, owning wealth, spending money, and so on) and by making rules governing those activities. However, the real contents and effects of government regulations depend on the interests that govern their design and implementation….