I must follow, if I can

Pursuing it with eager feet / Until it joins some larger way

  • Promise Backlund on the Spirituality of Music

     By Aaron Lord

    Posted on September 5, 2026

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    Promise Backlund (@eve_wasframed) is a former worship leader turned counter-apologist. I first heard of her on Seth Andrews’s podcast. She wrote a book called Gospel of Lies (the title sounds harsher than it actually reads). There’s one chapter where she discusses the impact that music, architecture, mood lighting, and large... [Read More]
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  • Lincoln's Logic

     By Aaron Lord

    Posted on February 12, 2026

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    Some thoughts on Lincoln’s birthday… Some people have said Lincoln didn’t really want to end slavery, but was forced into it, reluctantly, for pragmatic reasons, like as a military strategy to win the war or something. (I think he would have preferred a constitutional amendment to an executive order…) But... [Read More]

  • Book Review: On the Historicity of Jesus

     By Aaron Lord

    Posted on February 7, 2026

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    Richard Carrier’s work has been on my to-be-read list for quite some time. The Bayes’ theorem aspect of his approach had kind of deterred me for a while, but I finally took the plunge and dug into his tome, On the Historicity of Jesus: Why We Might Have Reason for... [Read More]
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  • Trip to the Redwoods

     By Aaron Lord

    Posted on November 16, 2025

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    For Veteran’s Day my kids had a 4-day weekend, so I took some PTO and we traveled to Humboldt County in Northern California to see the coastal redwoods. We had stopped at a rest area on our way to Oregon a few years back but didn’t have the opportunity to... [Read More]
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  • Reno to Blairsden

     By Aaron Lord

    Posted on October 5, 2025

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    We picked up the Airstream in Reno. And after a few hours of orientation and hitch installation, we were on our way. Well, except I forgot to bring a can opener for the chili. So we went to Walmart. Then the interchange going north on 580/395 was super confusing, I... [Read More]
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  • My blog is about to become a part-time travelogue

     By Aaron Lord

    Posted on September 28, 2025

    So, we bought an Airstream. It’s something we’ve been dreaming about for years. We were thinking about living in one after we lost our house in the Camp Fire. Then the idea kept coming up during every wildfire evacuation over the years since then. It’s not an ideal long-term living... [Read More]
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  • No, I do not obey my president

     By Aaron Lord

    Posted on June 19, 2025

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    Twenty-five years ago I was in Scotland and had a discussion with a teen who said, “I obey my queen whatever she tells me to do. Don’t you obey your president?” I told her no. That’s not how America works. [Read More]
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  • The reign of poop

     By Aaron Lord

    Posted on March 8, 2025

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    I recently saw a post from a connection on LinkedIn that said, “I read an article this morning suggesting LinkedIn is on a path to ‘enshittification’ (a new word for me), supposedly because of the increasing amount of non-work content here.” That’s not what enshittification means at all. [Read More]
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