A few years ago I started doing Saultoons’s annual “Septembit” challenge. Saultoons provides a theme and color requirements with 30 specific prompts — one for…
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A few years ago I started doing Saultoons’s annual “Septembit” challenge. Saultoons provides a theme and color requirements with 30 specific prompts — one for…
If you’re using the bible to abuse LGBT folks, you aren’t following Christ. Let’s talk about Romans 1, Sodom, and how Jesus interprets scripture.
One of the best Easter Songs ever written is “He’s Alive,” by Don Francisco. Here’s Dolly Parton’s live cover: Pay special attention to the chorus,…
For more on this project, click here. My Weird Hobby A good hobby needs to be something you could do forever. But things tend to…
Participating in a church service often means saying and singing things you neither believe nor feel nor experience, but which you wish you did (and think you should).
Posted in Life, and Video Games
Something broke in my brain at age ten. After dinner, my dad and younger siblings would play games of make-believe, complete with ongoing characters and…
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I don’t like Dragon Ball Or Dragon Quest Why? Well, my friend, it is because Akira Toryama‘s character designs make me angry. And you know…
Posted in Life, and Thinking Out Loud
What drew me to computer programming was getting to be creative. Later, I heard someone say the whole thing is like magic. They were right.
Starting October 1st, it is officially Pumpkintide. But what is Pumpkintide? Where did it come from? What is it’s purpose?
Posted in Life, Teaching, and Top 40 Philosophy
Things are pretty exciting in Tillmanland recently. A Great New Job First, I’ve started a new job as a content developer for Smartly. Smartly is a…
Yesterday, I pointed out how the instrument I generally loathe — the saxophone — has made a comeback in the 2010s. The 80s were the…
Fruit Have you ever seen the following quotation? Intelligence is knowing that tomatoes are fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put tomatoes in a fruit…
Every study is or will be contradicted by some other study within a decade. Or, more precisely: (Please note: The text in the image above…
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“Grunge and Philosophy: What Nirvana Can Teach Us about the Philosophy of History,” at Blackwell’s X and Philosophy blog. “Top 40 Philosophy: The Beatles, ‘I Want…
Posted in Friendly Philosophy, and Life
I find it absolutely fascinating when animals play, even though their games basically boil down to pretending to kill each other. The ability to pretend…
Posted in Life, and Thinking Out Loud
I recently finished Imagining the Kingdom: How Worship Works (Cultural Liturgies, vol. 2), by James. K. A. Smith. It’s the 2nd book in a series,…
Posted in Friendly Philosophy, and Life
While checking some audio-books-on-CD, to make sure I was returning all the right discs to the library, I noticed something odd. The slip covers/pages/whatever that…