Objections to Christianity: Religion Divides
On the first Saturday of the month, a few of us from our church hit the streets and go door to door to evangelize. We
On the first Saturday of the month, a few of us from our church hit the streets and go door to door to evangelize. We
The Essential Marcuse- Marcuse, Feenberg and Leiss (2007) Eleven selected writings by the Marxist philosopher Herbert Marcuse. Some of these didn’t interest me much at all, so I
I’m not going to post the notes I took of this essay. The basic outline of Marcuse’s argument: Tolerance is usually a good thing because it
Ulysses- James Joyce (1920) I bought this book years ago because it’s on almost every list of classic literature. But I couldn’t understand it, and after
Fascism: A Readers Guide- Walter Laqueur (1976) The book is a series of articles talking about various aspects of fascism. The most interesting for me was Zeev Sternhell’s article on
A tweet from John Pavlovitz said: “Conservative Christians clutching their pearls at people of conscience disrupting their worship gathering to call out hypocrisy and abuses of power
We hear the word “fascist” a lot in today’s political climate, mainly thrown at those on the right as an epithet. It seems to be
2025 was an event-filled year. Changed ChurchesTo set a bit of a back story, at the end of 2024, we decided to leave the church
I have read 88 books this year, which is a new record for me. But, sadly, I’ll have to dial it back….starting from this month.Having
Gerusalemme liberata- Torquato Tasso (1581) So soon after having finished the Divine Comedy, I was reluctant to involve myself with another epic poem in archaic Italian. But
“I have more intellectual pursuits, and less intellect with which to pursue them.“
This website was formerly “the TL;DR place” on tumblr. But I occasionally posted things that I wanted others to see, and they were unable to access the content without tumblr accounts. I called the blog the TL;DR place because the writing I do here is essentially a place for me to process through my thoughts. Most of my friend group isn’t all that interested in the same things, so I write rather than talk through it.
The domain name is a play on my name: David Laurance. David is of Hebrew origin and means something like “beloved”, and my middle name “Laurance” is derived from the name of a great aunt “Laura” back somewhere in the ancestry. The male equivalent is Lawrence, or Larry…. so… “beloved Larry” > everyone loves Larry.