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slow and steady wins the race

By: Ryan T. Meyer January 17, 2020January 17, 2020

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It is an attempt at self-actualization that sometimes pays off and sometimes doesn’t. When I first started publishing my writing, I really didn’t like the idea of referring to it as a blog. I went through a number of phases. I posted one article about a famous musician that was shared a whole bunch and…

repentance is the cure

By: Ryan T. Meyer January 5, 2020January 5, 2020

faith, music, opinionccm, christian music, dc talk, faith, featured, michael tait, trumpLeave a Comment

On their 1995 record Jesus Freak contemporary Christian music pioneers dc Talk wrote a song called “Colored People” and wooo boy in light of current events is it something. There has been a lot of talk this week about evangelical (for lack of a better term) leaders holding a rally for president Donald J. Trump…

backwoods nation

By: Ryan T. Meyer January 3, 2020

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Bloodlust often presents itself as patriotism, and we as a country absolutely fucking love it. If you’ve been on the internet in the last few days, you might have noticed that it’s 2003 and everyone is falling in line to send more of our men and women to die in a foreign country based on…

grey world

By: Ryan T. Meyer December 22, 2019December 23, 2019

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-a short story- Everything about today went exactly as planned. Every meal, every flight, the trip from the concourse to the rental car garage, and from there to his very planned meals and meetings. This was, of course, by meticulous design. Greyson’s home office, as best as he remembers it, has an entire bookshelf dedicated…

theoretical love for other people’s unborn children

By: Ryan T. Meyer December 20, 2019December 21, 2019

faith, politicsabortion, caravagio, faith, featured, politics, trump1 Comment

It is not an exaggeration to say that I think about this sentence every single day. Every time I see someone of faith shamelessly overlook a key tenet of their beliefs in the name of a Republican politician who pretends to care about freedom of religion, I am reminded that for many people there is…

on america and natural selection (kill the poor)

By: Ryan T. Meyer December 16, 2019December 16, 2019

opinion, politicsamerica, church, faith, featured, money, politics, poverty, wealth2 Comments

“When it comes time to pay, just a few weeks after getting a loan, most borrowers find they can’t afford to do so, according to the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. As a result, the vast majority of payday loans — 80% — are rolled over or renewed within two weeks. Most loans go to…

on happiness

By: Ryan T. Meyer December 8, 2019December 9, 2019

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All of our efforts to find or create happiness turn up empty because happiness is something that has to find us. One of the most obvious phases that I went through recently was that of being a guy that gardens. Growing up in South Florida as the son of a very Floridian garden mom, it…

first ever A/D hate mail roundup

By: Ryan T. Meyer December 2, 2019December 2, 2019

faith, opinion, politicsfaith, featured, hatemail, parenthood, politics, republicans5 Comments

For an audience the size of mine (not very big), I get a lot of emails from people who are very mad about how I portray disciples of our president and the party that has welcomed him with open arms. To be fair to almost half of the people in this country, it has been…

what you believe is inconsequential

By: Ryan T. Meyer November 30, 2019November 30, 2019

faith, opinion, politicsart, faith, featured, history, politics2 Comments

As is so often is the case, Christian proselytizing and political colonization worked hand-in-hand to whitewash into submission almost two millennia of native culture. One of the more normal but not actually normal things that I remember doing as a kid was stressing about how many people I talked to about Jesus. The guy was…

the requirements of chaos

By: Ryan T. Meyer November 27, 2019December 21, 2019

art, faithart, chaos, faith, featured, life, philosophy, vonnegut2 Comments

There is no order in the world around us, we must adapt ourselves to the requirements of chaos instead. A weird thing happens when you start reading a lot about the why of life in that you begin to lose track of the why in the everyday small moments of which this life is comprised.…