Afterlife Lotto

I admit it. I bought 4 Mega Millions tickets. I got 2 for the Wednesday drawing and 2 for the Friday. “But Ben, why would you throw away 4 perfectly good dollars.” Two reasons: 1. There is not much risk on the front end. I will not miss $4. 2. The potential rewards are freakishly […]

Blog #700

Not sure how I missed this. But at some point last week, I wrote my 700th post. If you can’t have quality, go for quantity!

Nerdy thought for the month

OK, I saw Phantom Menace with my son last night. In 3D, it is still a deeply mediocre movie. As if seeing the movie weren’t nerdy enough, I began analyzing the spirituality of the various characters. It gets worse. My analysis? JarJar Binks was the most spiritually pure of the characters. All the other characters […]

Big Time

I feel so grown up. I bought the domain villiageidiot.me. Now I am a legitimate idiot.

Imagine, part 7

Thud! I start this posting with a quote from Pink Floyd’s The Wall. It is written from the perspective of a husband to his wife. But I use it here to describe the next phase of my faith journey. Day after day, love turns grey Like the skin of a dying man. Night after night, […]

Imagine, part 6

Crash! I preface this post with a couple of thoughts. It is impossible for me to put into words how much I love my son. He inspires me daily. Let me be clear I do not in any way, shape or form blame him for what happened to me. What follows is purely the result […]

Imagine, part 2

On three: One, Three, Two… I know, I know, I already published part 3. I winged part 2 at the meeting, but I want a complete set so here goes Paradise Lost So purely from a faith standpoint, I had a pretty great early childhood. But unfortunately as I got older, the adults around me […]

More than meets the eye

I love driving from the Eisenhower tunnel, down through the Rocky Mountains and into Denver (my home town). As you go barreling down I-70, you round one mountain, just to see another, and another and another. And just when you think that you are forever trapped in this rocky landscape, you round a curve and […]

Snug as a Bug

I woke up at 3am this morning. I am not complaining. At the time I thought it was 5, right before I get up. But no, I had two more glorious hours to sleep. It was raining outside and I was in a warm bed. Joy. One of my fellow friends and fellow bloggers pointed […]

Theology for dummies (nomenclature, part 1)

Eggnogstic: Individuals who believe that the trinity is nothing like the reproductive system of a chicken or its offspring.