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December 2013

December 12, 2013

Did Dostoevsky get it wrong (and Obama get it right)?

One of the most famous phrases to come out of Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov...

December 05, 2013

The Kinks got it right

Over the past decade, the US government has redefined the entire world--including the homeland--as a...

December 04, 2013

Love the sinner–period

We've had an interesting discussion on the Hellbound? Facebook page and elsewhere lately about the...

November 2013

November 27, 2013

The only exclusive truth claim you can make

As someone who spends a lot of time doing research, I've become a huge fan...

October 2013

October 07, 2013

What if…

A top notch Libyan special forces unit sneaked into the United States and abducted a...

September 2013

September 26, 2013

Freedom, security and Ben Franklin

Last night while cruising through the foggy mountains on the way home from a couple...

June 2013

June 17, 2013

Don’t be a chickensh*t(ter)!

Way, way back when I was in college, I spent some time studying family systems...

June 05, 2013

This is not a pipe. (Or a painting of a pipe!)

Last weekend I had a wonderful time speaking and showing Hellbound? at Lendrum Mennonite Brethren...

June 04, 2013

How to get on the right side of history

A few years ago I made a serious attempt at becoming a day trader. Call...

May 2013

May 29, 2013

A few thoughts on fundamentalism

Lately I've been thinking a lot about fundamentalism in preparation for an upcoming project I'd...

March 2013

March 18, 2013

The new cutting edge of horror?

I've always had a fascination with horror movies. In fact, one of the first things...

March 11, 2013

An abstract for a book chapter I’m going to write

Recently I was asked to contribute to an upcoming book on Marshall McLuhan and philosophy....

February 2013

February 28, 2013

What’s your “immortality formula”?

One of my major discoveries during the production of Hellbound? was the work of existential...

February 22, 2013

Storming the four fortresses of hell – conclusion

I began this series several weeks ago, inspired in part by some responses to my...

February 04, 2013

Storming the four fortresses of hell – part 2

Last week I began my assault on what I'm calling the four fortresses of hell,...

January 2013

January 08, 2013

Why I struggle with the notion of objective reality (or at least our ability to access it)

I kind of surprised myself while writing yesterday's post when it came to the issue...

January 07, 2013

Why what’s clear to you isn’t so clear to me (part 3)

My last post in this series ended in somewhat of a stalemate. I began by...

December 2012

December 21, 2012

If the NRA had any balls, this is what they would do

The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy...

December 10, 2012

Why what’s clear to you isn’t so clear to me (part 1)

After reading dozens of books, writing hundreds of blog posts, engaging in thousands of conversations...

September 2012

September 04, 2012

Why I’d rather seek truth than defend an idea

When you make a movie about hell (especially if it has a question mark at...