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For Amarillo Magazine: Carpe Christmas
By
Jason Boyett
Right before Thanksgiving, my friends at Amarillo Magazine asked me to write an inspiring holiday piece for their December print edition. So I wrote a sort of maudlin piece about death. Merry Christmas! (It had been one of those months.) Anyway, here it is in its entirety: —————- A couple of years ago, a friend…
Justifying My Existence at DFW
By
Jason Boyett
Last Wednesday, I traveled to the beautiful campus of Colgate University to speak to the students of Colgate Christian Fellowship about faith and doubt and religious tension — the stuff I discuss in O Me of Little Faith. Colgate is in Hamilton, New York, a few miles southeast of Syracuse and a thousand miles northeast…
The Iron Fist: Finding Time to Write
By
Jason Boyett
A couple weeks ago, in the comments for this post, a commenter offered a suggestion: If you feel up for it, maybe you can put up a post that can give us readers some tips on how to keep writing when you don’t feel like it. I’m not sure where to find the time to…
Stephen Hawking, God, and Twitter
By
Jason Boyett
Last Thursday, in an excerpt from his upcoming book, The Grand Design, world-famous physicist and mathematician Stephen Hawking revealed that he no longer believed the universe needed a creator God. “The universe can and will create itself from nothing,” he wrote. That’s a fairly simplified statement, and one he will no doubt expand upon in…
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