Even though (perhaps bc) I identify as Xian, I wonder if anyone has attempted a quasi-IFS approach to atheism: "Thank you, religion, for doing your best to keep us safe in the earlier stages of civilization. But now you're fomenting division and ignorance and it's time to let go of that control."

thinking that the best possible Frankenstein movie would have
-del Toro's 2025 Captain Walton
- Bride of Frankenstein's sequence with the elderly blind man
- the creature makeup from the 2004 Hallmark miniseries
- the climactic adaptational twist from Branagh '94
- del Toro's ending and final shot

Memorial service done, here's the final piece:

Psalm 113:3

After attending a murder mystery dinner theater production last night, I'm envisioning a one-person show variant where just one actor in costume is wandering around delivering increasingly unhinged monologues

Finally watched John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness (1987), a movie in which Satan a liquid goo trying to free his Father (the Anti-God) and Jesus was apparently a space alien sent to warn us. Honestly, I don't mind such heresy in service of Lovecraftian horror, but you gotta... (1/2)

I’ve read this 3 times now and it is actually excellent advice for meditating on the Word of God

I've never written a musical but one of these days I'm going to sit down and write a musical about Joseph just to prove it can be done better than the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat version

I don't really like every single song on the album, but damn if Randy Newman's Faust doesn't have some real tearjerkers (and catchy songs in general)

Am I getting old? Or are people in their 60s and 70s — not always, but fairly often — starting to get good at Facebook?

Went to beach yesterday. We made fun of him at the time but Anakin Skywalker was 100% correct about sand

Tennessee's youth transition ban is straightforwardly discriminatory. It bans puberty blockers, hormones and surgeries *only* when they are used to affirm a trans identity
www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/113/Bi...

Hi everyone—I made my BlueSky account a while back but I figure it's time I actually give posting here an honest try.

My name is Benjamin; I was foyercoffee on Twitter. I play piano for churches, musicals, and college voice students. I buy lots of theology books but rarely read them.