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The first essay starts this way: "I'm crazy." Perfect for the start of this project. I take inspiration from the song "American Pie": "Did you write the book of love?" I want to say yes to that. Raise your hand if you always wanted to say, "Yes, I did write the book of love." No? Just me?

It's some unconventional Christianity that I posit, based on my experiences in the "other side". More will be forthcoming if this is received well.
posted by paladin on Nov 16, 2016 - 0 comments

This is definitely not for everybody. A new mythology, based on the Judeo-Christian one, is on the front of it a sky level view that is hyperlinked to articles deeper in the site. After writing two books about my experiences, I began this as a blog with supplemental info, but it is now a work in its own right. Like I said, not for everyone, but if it's for you, I think you'll find it fascinating to explore.
posted by paladin on Jan 13, 2016 - 0 comments

1995 was also an incredibly important year for the scene we've come to call “Chrindie,” for Christian indie rock. Much has been written about the weird world of contemporary Christian music, but whatever you think it is ,  you’d be surprised by how many genuinely great Chrindie records were released twenty years ago. [more inside]
posted by sleeping bear on Dec 23, 2015 - 0 comments

When English interpretations of the New Testament talk about ‘sexual immorality’ they are really translating the Greek word porneia (πορνεία), it’s used almost every time the topic of sex comes up and often when talking about the worst sins in general. If you can really grok what Paul was talking about as he uses the root for the word over and over again (it appears 32 times in the New Testament) then the rest falls into place. Now porneia has always been translated into Latin as fornication, while being understood by many conservatives to just be a 1:1 stand in for ‘any sexual expression not between husband and wife’. However, Porneia in post-classical Corinthian Greek did not mean generic sexual sin, or even sex outside of marriage, at all exactly and neither did fornication in actual Latin. The truth, like in many things, is a little bit more complicated and a lot more interesting

TRIGGER WARNINGS AHEAD FOR DEPICTIONS OF SEXUAL EXPLOITATION IN CLASSICAL GREECE, ALSO AN NSFW VASE. (SFW version)

posted by Blasdelb on Mar 11, 2014 - 3 comments

I just self-published an edition of the Psalms that my wife and I have been using for the last few months. It's the KJV text, divided into thirty days of Morning and Evening prayer and marked for antiphonal responsive reading. [more inside]
posted by valkyryn on Jun 27, 2013 - 3 comments

This is the beginning of a book I’m working on. I’ve linked first to where it starts from the beginning and not the reverse chronological order that the main site shows, the normal link. Right now it’s the roughest possible draft, jumping around to whatever comes into my head, having experienced just recently some intense stuff, the inspiration for this book. I know there is already a book out there with the same title, totally different idea. To comment you must register, wanted to make sure that you couldn’t comment unless you really wanted to. It’s an ongoing affair, hopefully I’ll update it every day with a little tidbit.
posted by paladin on Feb 12, 2013 - 0 comments

As a Saturday night project I made this map of locations where the Twelve Apostles of Jesus died. Blue markers represent commonly accepted death locations while yellow markers represent disputed locations.
posted by Catholicgauze on May 17, 2011 - 0 comments

A tumblr featuring meditations on contemplative living written or inspired by 20th century Catholic monk Thomas Merton. About half of the blog's content are Merton quotes, and the other half are similarly-themed short posts or links to content on monasticism or contemplation from a variety of religious traditions. Theme by MeFi's own Rory Marinich.
posted by l33tpolicywonk on Jul 5, 2010 - 0 comments