Roy Clements was a leading figure within the UK evangelical Christian movement for more than two decades until he resigned from his pastoral ministry in 1999 after the revelation that he is gay. For a time after this revelation, Clements received lots of correspondence from Christians, including his old friend, the ...
Read MoreHow to produce your own web marketing video on a budget
So, your product or service is ready and on-point, and you have a website. Now, you’d like to market yourself effectively and you’ve heard web video marketing is the way to reach your audience. Let’s talk about how best to do it on a tight budget! Producing an effective video ...
Read More3 myths about egalitarian relationships
I recently had an on-air exchange that was an insight for me into how some men feel about feminism, equality between the sexes and egalitarian relationships. It struck a chord with me because, for the past 14 years, I’ve been in a wonderful egalitarian relationship with a woman I consider ...
Read More7 things that constantly happen when you talk on the radio for a living
On my 12th birthday, my parents arranged a surprise visit to a really big radio station. I got to sit in with a host I’d listened to for years, be on the mic with him, talk to the producers on the other side of the glass and watch the whole ...
Read MoreThe Ice Water Challenge
In this silly event, I agree to allow my colleague Josh to dump a large bucket of ice water over my head on-air, under the rather dubious premise that it will aid in some worthy cause. It was a fitting end to the show that day as I didn’t shower ...
Read MoreDefending the separation of church and state in town board meetings
The Supreme Court has ruled 5-4 that public prayer at the beginning of town board meetings – even almost exclusively Christian public prayer – is constitutional. In this clip I respond to the ruling on the case from Greece, NY, pointing out inconsistencies in the ruling, defending the separation of ...
Read MoreThanks for stopping those happy ending massages
Dear Oro Valley Police Department, I’m not a resident of Oro Valley, Arizona, but I do pass through from time to time and I’d just like to express my thanks for two recent arrests that have put my mind at ease as an occasional visitor to your area. Yesterday, after ...
Read MoreGod Hates Fred? On the impending death of Fred Phelps
Beacon Cash Advance Here I respond to the news that Fred Phelps, founder of Westboro Baptist Church (of ‘God Hates Fags’ fame) is “on the edge of death” in a care facility in Kansas. Listen to a clip from his sermons and hear some of the inspirational words from gay ...
Read MoreWhy chivalry is dead and we should be glad
Should men be opening doors for women, pulling their seats out for them and giving up their seats for them on the bus? James Michael Sama thinks so. Listen here as I respond to his article by taking issue with the premise underlying chivalry.
Read MoreWhy the Arizona ‘religious freedom’ bill doesn’t enhance freedom
Arizona has had its share of bad political publicity. Whether it’s our love of guns or our crazy sheriffs rounding up Mexicans or our failure to join in honoring Martin Luther King Jr. with a holiday to mark what he accomplished in America, sometimes the crazy unfortunately wins out. This ...
Read MoreFor 2014, I resolve to be alone more
I’m not too cool for New Year’s Resolutions. In fact, I already have a couple of boringly normal and very traditional ones in mind for 2014, like eating healthier and working out. (January 1st seems like an ideal time to do this psychologically, especially coming after the decadent holidays at ...
Read MoreUse this handy flow chart to determine whether you are being persecuted
Idea by Rachel Held Evans. Made cuter by me in Illustrator.
Read MoreWhy this libertarian remains open-minded about Obamacare
We already have a health care system that resembles a kind of centrist soup. With Obamacare, the exact proportions may be different, but the soup’s ingredients remain exactly the same. ‘Obamacare’, aka the Affordable Care Act, is now under implementation. It passed all three branches of the federal government including ...
Read MoreThe Problem of Suffering made easy
Explaining the classic problem with a simple analogy Let’s say you’re passing by a bathroom door and you happen to look in and see a young child fall and slip under the water. Nobody else is around. What should you do? You’d probably reply that you should run in and ...
Read MoreI’m not an expert on sex education, but…
I’m a news hound whose job it is to research, dissect and analyze the news and present it to my audience with a little opinion thrown in for good measure. As part of this, I often get exposed to all the great research being done in contemporary science, and the ...
Read MoreDistracted driving
A California court says the old ban on mobile phones while driving also applies to the newer things phones can do, including helping someone navigate to their destination using a maps / turn-by-turn directions app. Time for a legal overhaul for the 21st century. But, even more fundamentally than that, ...
Read More10 reasons I don’t believe in Hell
Do you believe in Hell? If so, and if you’re from the Christian tradition like me, you probably believe it’s a place you go when you die to be punished for things you did while alive. A fiery place of torture worse than any you can imagine. Suffering ...
Read MoreDid God help the Ravens win the Superbowl?
A dramatic Superbowl including a 35-minute power outage, and the winners had a praying linebacker on their side. God helped the Ravens win the Superbowl! Or at least that’s what a significant minority of Americans reportedly believe to be possible. 27% of Americans told a poll that they believe God ...
Read MoreiRaffle 2
The Parker Area Alliance for Community Empowerment, a nonprofit youth organization, wanted to get the message out about their ‘iRaffle’; fundraising by giving away a bucket of the latest Apple gear. This is the ad we did for them.
Read MoreNuggets from the Django screenplay
WARNING: This post is FULL of spoilers. Django Unchained is brilliant. It’s classic Quentin Tarantino: cathartic revenge plot, tense moments, stylized violence, references to other films, artistic licence, historical context, gritty drama and epic comedy. QT marches to the beat of his own drum, and the results are fantastic. I ...
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