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In the the spring of 2003, I bought my first car. Well, my second car, actually. The first one was a gift from my Grandpa. That was in 1996, the year my second car was made, ironically. But in 2003, I bought my first car. A green Pontiac Grand Prix. A four-door SE model, complete with…

It’s Thursday, which, according to my calendar, is “Blog Day.” I am exhausted. Three weeks of unmitigated sleep disruption has finally begun to soften, and I am feeling the effects of coming down from my adrenaline high. I don’t want to write. I don’t want to think. I want to sleep. I want to not…

I think we all have deep parts. I think that somewhere, tucked beneath our bones we have a person, a soul, if you will. I think that in this deep part we feel our most intense longings, fears, hurts, joys, failures, triumphs. I think about what it is that lives in those parts of me.…

In case you missed it, my blog has moved to http://nathanmyrick.blogspot.com/. Please update your RSS feeds accordingly. The cause for this move has been the awesome website redisign by the amazing Jared Moody and my fabulous wife, Lesley Myrick!

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…

I’m gonna start this out ambitiously: The biggest problem that we face as academics and people trying to live responsibly is that we ask the wrong questions. What is more, we answer the wrong questions, and exert considerable energy doing so. How we define “learning” factors into this equation considerably. We define “learning” as the collection…

In theology, and in all of church practice, there is a continual and universal nemesis to the work of good in the world: Sin. If we were to draw a narrative structure onto our system of dogma and doctrine, Sin would be the bad guy, the sinister villain who is constantly engaged in disrupting the…

Words. Such a complex juxtaposition of positive and negative qualities. I often like to think that the words I choose are arbitrary, holding no inherent meaning but that which I apply to them by the context of my creation. In this, I hold to a form of modified Nominalism. I give meaning to the words…