Taylor the Teacher

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SOME writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins. Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the […]

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Ken once asked me if I would write about Eminem, Tupac, and Ice Cube even if I didn’t care about Google. I know Ken, so I’m not insulted. [Besides, a glance at my Google pagerank should put that accusation to bed.] If anyone else asked me, I would be offended. Or I’d assume they didn’t […]

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Anarchy does not mean chaos. Anarchy is the absence of the state. Only those who want to control other people (largely because they can’t control themselves) want us to think that if there was no state, there would be chaos.

 
However, answering to any authority other than what my conscience tells me is right […]

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It would be unforgivably heinous of God to allow all the evil that goes on in this world — that he knew would go on if he gave us free will — unless the opposite choice was worse. I believe God is not unforgivably heinous, but inexplicably good.
 

This comes down to the central question […]

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God gave me free will because getting to know him depended on it. An absolutely INSANE risk, I know. One that I would never take. He wasn’t too dense to understand the risk involved in giving humans free will. But still, he decided to do it.
 

Plus, I’ve seen enough in my own life to […]

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There are two sharply divided sides of most debates in America nowadays. Both sides are overly convinced that they are right. Both sides repel the other side with their obvious ignorance and brazenness. But nobody’s thinking that they themselves should listen.
 
 

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I used to go to a church that made an unstated competition out of faith, as though the whole thing were a game to “win” by being the most “fired up for Jesus.”
 
If thinking about growing out of kindergarten faith causes a flutter, and you’re looking forward to your growing up process with some ambitious […]

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Our relationship with him, and the choice it presents to us, is all there is. And we find it hard to keep it together with him in the presence of someone else because deep down, we don’t believe he’s real. So he steps in and uses the “existential weight” of others to impress on us […]

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Plus, other people suck.

I know that sounds negative. But isn’t that what we all feel? Isn’t it so easy to feel clean and holy with God in a cabin on the mountains? Or alone on the screened-in porch (in my case.) But then there are those clothes on the bathroom floor. And that […]

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Teenagers often rail against their own realizations. That’s what “the dog ate my homework” is all about. It’s hard to admit a mistake, and that the mistake was your own responsibility, and not let that destroy your self-image. This requires learning, simultaneously, to hold yourself accountable to always try to do what’s right AND to […]

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