Posts by Nathan Myrick
New Song!
https://soundcloud.com/nathan-myrick/confessions-rough Here’s a little sneak peak at what you will find on my latest album, Believable Lies! If you like what you hear, head on over to http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/631063502/believable-lies-the-album and help fund the mixing and mastering of this album! I’m super excited for you to hear it, and I hope you feel the same way after listening to…
Read MoreThe Poor
I woke up this morning thinking about politics. A heinous admission, I know. I must have been dreaming about the immanent collapse of the “free world” or something like that. Anyway, as I was going about my morning routine, I started thinking about what is, at bottom, wrong with our present political system. A small…
Read MoreBeliefs and Art: Kickstarters and Startkickers.
After a few months in the cocoon of creative angst, I am emerging with a new album and the chance to promote it! The album is entitled “Believable Lies.” It is a short album, comprised of seven songs, all wrestling with the ideas of belief and lies and their conflict with reality at the intersection…
Read MoreConservative vs. Liberal pt II: A Better Way of Thinking
My last post attempted to illustrate the semantic and philosophical disconnect between the terms conservative and liberal. This post is an attempt to provide a better way of thinking and talking about the issue of social change. Here’s by basic assumption: the problems conservative people have with liberal people and vice versa are not in…
Read MoreConservative vs. Liberal: Thoughts on Why These Positions are Unhelpful
There are always words that get thrown around as if they have the weight of the world in their meanings. Conservative and Liberal are two of those words. In the banter that has become Western Christianity in America, these words are the razor’s edge in a knife fight, the trump card that within any circle…
Read MoreWho’s the most irreligious?
Not too many years ago I found myself uttering these incredibly cliched words: “I’m not religious, I just have a relationship with Jesus.” This was an echo of the words that I had heard time and again from my church leaders-“We’re not into religion, we’re into relationship.” So, what is “religion?” Over the years, I’ve…
Read MorePrayers
Life has been, well, busy. And of course the first thing that takes the hit is this little blog here. But today I had to write out five rhyming prayers for a class, and I liked most of them so much that I have decided to post them here. Some are funny, some are sad.…
Read MoreThe Saturday Evening Post About Beer: Spaten Optimator
So Doppelbock’s are not always my favorite, but I’ve been hearing such good things about Spaten Optimator I figured I’d give it a try. And that try warranted a review here. I was quite pleasantly surprised by the complexity of flavor in the Optimator: there is an initial sweetness followed by a savory body that…
Read MoreIt isn’t the Guns, it isn’t the Knives
Today I’ve read two completely separate and yet quite related stories, and both fill my heart with overwhelming sadness, grief upon grief. In Sandy Hook, CT today, someone shot and killed 27 people. 18 of them were elementary school children. Words cannot express the horro, the tragedy of this episode, which, as detail emerge, is…
Read MoreWhat a World
Well, it’s been a while since I’ve posted anything on this little blog of mine. I’d like to say that I’ve been busy doing cool things like playing shows or taking in some serious culture, but the truth is that I have been buried in course work for the classes I’m taking this quarter, and…
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