As you might have noticed, I haven’t had too much time for writing lately, being absurdly busy with work and life. But somewhere in the past few weeks, I did find time to sit down with an up-and-coming blogger known
Author: Eric Pazdziora
Composer, Author, Pianist
“I Have a Sign”: Answering Spiritual Abusers According to Their Folly
“Are you looking for a sign from God? This is it.” — seen on too many church signs In the popular imagination, Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist “Church” probably deserve their status as the archetypal hateful ultra-fundamentalist spiritual abusers.
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“Mick McGuire” is finally here!
It’s finally happened! I’m finally official! The other day I got a surprise package in the mail from Alliance Music Publications. What to my wondering eyes should appear but a great big stack of published scores… with my name on
Five People You Won’t Meet in Heaven (And One You Might)
by Eric M. Pazdziora Many different people believe that if you are a Christian you will go to heaven… If this is so, that means that Fred Phelps will go to heaven. When you consider that non-Christians don't, that would
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Joy to the World (Psalm 98)
“The Messiah’s Coming and Kingdom” Isaac Watts (1674-1748) Psalm 98:4-8 One of our best-loved Christmas carols isn’t really about Christmas.(Technically, it isn’t even a carol.) It’s one of a set of paraphrases of the book of psalms, converted into hymn
Rudolph’s Revenge: A Fractured Christmas Fable
* * * * * * * * “Yes,” my visitor told me, glowering over the steam of his warm Christmas toddy. “The whole thing was the fault of the reindeer.” “Reindeer?” I said. “You know: Dasher and Dancer, Prancer
Is Christmas Pagan? Putting the “Bug” back in “Humbug”
Now that Christmas is almost upon us, it is fitting that we turn our attention to the words of Christians who are doing their best to spread the message of their deeply cherished beliefs about the true meaning of this
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Hypocriticism II: Blessed are the Disillusioned
This is a follow-up to my post “Hypocriticism”. Only, it was pretty old, and when I went back and re-read it just now, having done a lot more study about Spiritual Abuse over the past several years, I realized that it
Hypocriticism
When I was in high school, I worked under a man who for some reason didn’t like me. So he decided to sabotage my career. He spread false stories about me behind my back, saying that I wasn’t a good