Posts Tagged ‘Vic Sizemore’
Two Faiths, One God?
March 9, 2012
In 1990 and 1991 I was a combat engineer with the 5th Marines, and we were part of the invasion of Iraq during Desert Storm. I saw the nifty new technology, the almost playful ways we had devised to murder one another, and a deep sadness sank into my heart. It felt a lot like…
Read MoreThis is Your Brain on Art
January 24, 2012
I went to a middle school dance the other night to watch my son’s band play the four songs they know. What I observed probably won’t surprise you. The boys at the dance reacted to the rock & roll. They jumped and wiggled—some even did what might be considered dancing—and ran and threw their bodies…
Read MoreTree of Life, Tree of Light
December 30, 2011
Ever since Greg Wolfe started a Facebook thread about the movie, I’ve been thinking about Tree of Life—particularly the section depicting the birth of the universe. At first it appears to be a cinematic non-sequitur, and it seems also never to end. It does end, after almost twenty minutes away from the narrative. The big bang…
Read MoreA Hero of the Soul
November 17, 2011
Every year on 10 November friends from long ago wish me a happy birthday. The thing is: it isn’t my birthday. When I was eighteen I decided I was sick of everybody telling me what to do, so I decided to get free—so I joined the Marines. Ten November is the Marine Corps’ birthday. Every…
Read MoreChoose Ye This Day Thy Paradox
October 27, 2011
I am not overly interested in the so called battle between Science and Religion. I have my opinions, but my deep interest is elsewhere. It just seems to keep popping up around me lately. In response to my last post, Beth Bevis wrote that what she noticed was how “people need a sense of transcendence…
Read MoreHappy and Unhappy Families
September 29, 2011
When Tolstoy says that happy families are all alike, what he means is that they are all alike in this one thing: they are boring, not worth writing about. Unhappy families. Now those are interesting. Last night my wife and I—and our two teenage boys and pre-teen girl—celebrated our third wedding anniversary. In these three…
Read MoreChurch for Husbands: What Music Means to Me
August 15, 2011
Music might be the thing that in the end helps me keep my faith. I haven’t admitted this to my wife or kids, because I’ve made it abundantly clear that I don’t like the TV show Glee. I really don’t like it; most of the time it annoys the hell out of me. However, we…
Read MoreAmong the Train Hoppers
July 27, 2011
I drink with train hoppers. I seek them out, hang with them. My wife is fine with it. She accepts my fascination with them, even if she doesn’t fully understand it. Here in Lynchburg, Virginia, in among the train hoppers is where I find the gang I’m looking for: a cluster of former Liberty University…
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