Hackman's Musings

I am cleaning out my hard drives and I came across a letter I had written to my church leadership back in 2008.  I was a Sunday School teach...

Been thinking a lot about what I have to be thankful for as Thanksgiving approaches. There is this scene in a Dracula mini-series that comes...

Belief is tricky.  I don't think it is as simple as "letting go".  I don't think a believer can make a decision to not bel...

I have been listening to some Vance speeches and catching interviews with the Maga crowds attending the rallies.  Their words and attitudes ...

I didn't vote for McCain or Romney, but I never thought they were bad men. In fact, one can peruse my blog articles from those years and...

I grew up in fundamentalist Christianity which today has morphed into Christian Nationalism.  Vance is trying to reframe his "cat lady...

I was a big fan of Lewis when I was a believer. When I became an atheist, I went back over his writings and found so many of his arguments I...

One of the retorts I often get from a fundamentalist/nationalistic believer when they learn that I am an atheist is, "What if you are w...

In the play, Shadowlands, CS Lewis asks one of his friends if he is content.  He responds, " I am as I am.  The world is as it is.  Whe...

  I started watching Game of Thrones again with my brothers down in Florida. Like every incredible piece of art, you get something different...