I must follow, if I can

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

  • Concerning Fires

     By Aaron Lord

    Posted on August 3, 2024

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    On July 24, 2024, at Upper Park in Chico, California, a man set his car on fire and pushed it off a 60-foot embankment. The dry vegetation around it was quickly engulfed in flames and the fire spread rapidly, climbing the ridge into the forest and eventually growing over 400,000... [Read More]
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  • A Deconstruction Reading List

     By Aaron Lord

    Posted on March 30, 2024

    I would like this book list to correspond to a sort of roadmap, a progression from, say, a mainline Christian to a full-blown ethical progressive atheist and humanist, who has a sure foundation for morality apart from religion. I'm not all the way there yet, as I have some books... [Read More]
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  • Owning Your Accomplishments

     By Aaron Lord

    Posted on March 27, 2024

    I don’t talk about it much, especially as time has passed and I’ve moved on with my life, but 25 years ago I was in a band. We recorded a demo, and then the lead singer signed a record contract. We changed our name and re-recorded the demo material along... [Read More]

  • When I was an Agnostic

     By Aaron Lord

    Posted on March 23, 2024

    I am an agnostic Jesus-follower. That is, science and reason tell me that Yahweh, even if he existed, was a murderous tyrant, and so if Christians teach that Jesus was the son of Yahweh, or that Jesus believed he was doing the will of Yahweh,  or that Yahweh raised Jesus... [Read More]
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  • Theodicy, Slavery, and CSA

     By Aaron Lord

    Posted on March 20, 2024

    Since I began deconstructing my faith 10-12 years ago, I have been keeping notes in Evernote with various tags (later Notion, as I had to abandon Evernote due to its constantly-increasing fees and restrictions). I even made a Mind Map of all the points I had developed. [Read More]
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  • New blog home

     By Aaron Lord

    Posted on March 4, 2024

    I've migrated my blog from mustfollow.wordpress.com to mustfollow.blog, and then off of Automattic's Wordpress.com entirely to self-hosted, now at blog.lorddev.com. I've changed the theme as my previous one was quite outdated. But the Tolkien quote doesn't really fit anymore, so I need to think of a new blog title. [Read More]