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March 2, 2020 / Courtney / Inspiration

atheism for lent, day five: my broken myth

DAY FIVE of Atheism for Lent is a video seminar by Peter Rollins, introducing the thinkers we will meet this week: Protagoras, a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher; “Man is the measure of all things.” Epicurus, a Greek philosopher concerned with modest pleasures as the greatest good Seneca the Younger, a Roman Stoic who believed philosophy could …

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March 1, 2020 / Courtney / Inspiration

atheism for lent, day four: addendum (i.e. a poem)

If you’ve been following along, dear inklings — and I know you have, because that’s just the sort of lovelies you are — you know that I am in the midst of my SECOND journey through Atheism for Lent. I took copious notes (as I am wont to do) during AfL2019; and so, when I …

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March 1, 2020 / Courtney / Inspiration

atheism for lent, day four: where the hell is god?

TRIGGER WARNING: Holocaust, Shoah, execution by hanging DAY FOUR’s material is…oof. I read Night by Holocaust survivor Eliezer “Elie” Wiesel last year (independent of AfL). Doing justice to the piece would require an entire year of blog posts, so here’s my brief, inadequate review: It’s impossible to quantify the significance of this deceptively slim volume. …

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February 29, 2020 / Courtney / Inspiration

atheism for lent, day three: suspicion and faith

The reading for DAY THREE: a selection from Distinguished Professor of Philosophy Emeritus Merold Westphal’s book Suspicion and Faith. In this work, Westphal coins the concept and the phrase “Atheism for Lent,” which Peter Rollins uses for this Lenten practice. Westphal posits that “Atheism for Lent” fulfills the deepest purpose of Lent: aiding “the victory …

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February 29, 2020 / Courtney / Inspiration

atheism for lent, day two: “knight and squire”

DAY TWO’s reading is the first 12 pages of “Knight and Squire” Issue #1. “Knight and Squire” is a DC Comics Batman & Robin parody by Paul Cornell, Jimmy Broxton, and Yanick Paquette. In this premise, there’s a bar called Time in a Bottle in which a “truce spell” has been cast: the goodies and …

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February 28, 2020 / Courtney / Inspiration

atheism for lent, day one: dancing

As I mentioned in my previous post, Atheism for Lent invites us to delve into the atheistic dimensions of theism and the theistic dimensions of atheism. Also, in proper Lenten tradition and practice, AfL asks us to give up somethings for this season. Specifically, Atheism for Lent asks us to give up agreeing with the …

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February 28, 2020 / Courtney / Inspiration

giving up god for lent

So. Here’s the two-hour fireside tale in a two-minute summary: I was raised in and spent most of my adult life committed to a conservative Christian denomination. Outwardly, I always seemed fully committed to all of the faith practices the denomination taught; but inwardly, I was on a journey of questioning, doubting, experimenting, discarding, deconstructing, …

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February 10, 2020 / Courtney

ode to my babadook

i have set you a place at my tablecome now, sitdon’t be shywe both know i’m quit of ignoring you you shudder with terrible lifeyour shackles clink and rattlethrow them offsee?i don’t tighten them anymore drag yourself across that lightless spacethrough the muck and the squalor i imposedcreep slink slither stompup the stairs i splintered …

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February 9, 2020 / Courtney

i want to delete facebook but can’t; also, did you know i embroider now?

First off, you know that feeling when you get an inner urge to revamp your blog but when you go to do it you find that you’ve forgotten your password and when you click “forgot password” WordPress decides heyyo we’re not gonna send you one so you end up locked out of your blog whilst …

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January 9, 2020 / Courtney

books read in 2019

My reading goal for 2019 was to equal or exceed my number of Books Read in 2018. I didn’t make the goal.But that’s okay.Because that’s just how life flows sometimes.Forward.Backward.Sideways.Pooling on the ground.Dripping through the cracks.Flowing up. And I flow with it. * = extra memorable and/or illuminating** = the author has been spying on …

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Courtney Cantrell writes fantasy and sci-fi, reads all manner of books, has lost all ability to watch regular network TV, and possesses vorpal unicorn morphing powers. She is made mostly of coffee and chocolate.

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