Dr. Michael J. Svigel

All three books in the The AItheist Cycle now available: amazon.com/dp/B0DDDWV55N

Maybe it’s time to stop turning activists into symbols and to remember their causes rather than their names.

Sorry for social media silence. I’m reading through two doctoral dissertations for which I am the advisor, both patristic topics, and I am engrossed if not overwhelmed. :)

In the category of “you can’t make this stuff up.” @Walmart fail.

Not something you see everyday at your local @Lowes

Privatize airport security now.

We’re often quick to complain when companies let us down but slow to praise. Kudos to @AmericanAir for smooth, uneventful travel to and from Germany via Heathrow last week. And the crew handling a grumpy passenger dropping F-words in Heathrow was a model of de-escalation!

Creating a character arc for Mike Berg in this trilogy was actually easy. Creating a character arc for an A.I. system, YAR, was a little more challenging. But most of my readers say I pulled it off! If you’ve read them, tell me what you think. amazon.com/dp/B0DDDWV55N

In your eschatology, will there ever be a time when your glorified body enters the heavenly realm?

Privatize airport security.

A Bible-based diet but more absurd than the Daniel diet. Go!

@MrLewk 238? Didn’t he live through the Decian persecution that began in 250?

Cyprian of Carthage, martyred 238 AD via earlychurchfathers.wordpress.com earlychurchfathers.wordpress.com/2011/10/25/cyp…

Theology 101: “To be exasperated by common matters is the part of the little-minded, morose, and peevish.” (John Chrysostom)

Theology 101: You know how critics of your theological perspective on this-or-that issue don’t seem to quite understand your tradition’s view and tend to caricature it or portray it in a way you never would? You sound the same to them when you talk about their view.

Movies for which end-credit bloopers would be totally inappropriate. Go!

“All authority in heaven and earth has been given to you. Therefore, attract people to your Easter Sunday production with absurd gimmicks including, but not limited to, dropping Easter eggs out of helicopters and taking pictures with the Easter Bunny,” said Jesus never.

Theology 101: If your church’s beliefs and practices would be about the same without the Scriptures, it’s a false form of Christianity.

Theology 101: “I find no dress cursed by God, except a woman’s dress on a man.” (Tertullian or Carthage)

Theology 101: God does not retcon the Old Testament.

Theology 101: If you choose to change lanes from one Christian tradition to another, do it slowly, cautiously—with adequate warning to those around you—and don’t side-swipe others who are just trying to stay in their lanes.