In a recent TED talk techno-sociologist Zeynep Tufekci talked about a developing dystopian culture being fed to us by the advertising on Facebook, YouTube, and other social media sites. She described following a series of YouTube videos about Donald Trump, and how they quickly led to a series of white supremacist videos, which grew in … More Avoiding the Distopian Future
I have recently added a Patreon page, which will release podcasts of my travels with Priscilla the 22′ Winnie, and releases of my writings as they progress, even before the works are published. If you like what you see here, consider becoming a patron of the arts and philosophical/theological and social commentary work I am … More Follow Pastor Phil Priscilla Across America
Saudi Arabia looks like they will allow women to drive. I have a close friend who has been working on the forefront of these kinds of issues. This looks like a break-through. Breaking news from Bloomberg Politics just 25 minutes ago. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-26/saudi-arabia-to-allow-women-to-get-drivers-licenses-spa
I started following the Jesus Way in 1980. I was too late for that counter-culture charismatic religious event called the Jesus People Movement, and too early for any of the revivals that would later occur in the Vineyard and Hyper-Charismatic circles. This was much like the rest of my life. I am a product of … More Now or Later? the movement of our soteriology
This was my fifth Burn – that is, if you count only the big event in Nevada, and not the regional events in other locations. I certainly would not say that this makes me a veteran. Many of my friends here have been coming for more years than it takes both hands to count. Others … More My Burning Man 2017
I am afraid of beauty. In fact, it terrifies me. Lest you begin to feel sorry for me, this is the way I think it should be. At some raw and primeval level, I believe we are all terrified of beauty. I know some of you will completely disagree with me. You will be … More The Terror of Beauty
The above video is a clip of the Brown family from Brownwood, TX. Below, Sandi and the girls share their stories about being involved in festival ministry in Salem, and at the Stonehenge Solstice. From Sandi: I have been involved in several different streams of Christianity, from Baptist to Charismatic, to now not really affiliating with … More Thoughts from the Browns about Festival Outreach
I wasn’t raised in the evangelical church or the Catholic Church, and nobody did anything nasty to me in those settings when I was young. Nobody did anything nasty to my childhood friends in those settings either. Of course, most of them, like me, had their church in the pool, the beach and the sun, … More I do not have your hang-ups
Some years ago, long enough to evade a Twitter search, I posted a series of tweets called #shortstorieschangetheworld. Problematically the long hash tag shortened the 140-character Twitter limitation by another twenty-seven letters. I’ve been listening to the Bible in Welsh this week. I listen in Welsh even more haltingly that I speak, so my gray … More Short Stories Change the World
The English word “weird” comes down to us from an Anglo-Saxon and Germanic etymology. The Anglo-Saxon word “wyrd” was defined as destiny, and in the 15th century the English word “weird” was still defined as “destiny”, or “having the power to control fate.”[1] Today the word “wyrd” is used among the Nordic heathenry. They consider … More I am Looking for Wyrdos
When Christians talk about a Christocentric worldview, we typically mean that we have Jesus in the center of our little world, and that we are always focused upon the Person of Jesus. But could it be that thinking of Christocentrism in this manner holds inherent weaknesses that diminish our effectiveness as voices of hope to … More A Million Damning Acts – Navigating the Impossible #3
Centrifugal force does not exist. The force we call centrifugal force – the force working on an object orbiting a center point, which pushes it away from the center – does not actually exist. The actual force that causes an orbiting object to want to pull away and fly out of orbit is the inertia … More The Christocentric Worldview – Centrifugal and Centripetal Force: Navigating the Impossible #2
“God never asks you to do anything you are capable of doing.” I first heard these words a long time ago. It was at a Pastor’s Conference in Portland, Oregon. Roy Hicks Jr. was speaking. These words were the main focus of his message, but before he could describe the paradoxical nature of their meaning, … More Called to the Impossible: Navigating the Impossible #1
Words, words, words…we are inundated with words. They come as promises. They come as protests. They come as expressions of frustration. Most of us have fallen to one side or another of the debates and word-wars of politics and social issues. And I say “fallen” purposely. We are all either falling for something, or falling … More A Voice from the Dark – Prophets of Exile
Last night, a facebook “friend” went on a tirade over a post in which I critiqued our culture. It was an obscene tirade. It was a stupid – and I am sure – a drunken tirade. Later, I was openly accused of being a supporter of pedophilia and rape by the same person. All this over … More Thou Shalt Be a Hater: The New Cultural Commandment
