Three people named Paździora are listed as prisoners in Auschwitz. Antoni Paździora (prisoner number: 1247), Franciszek Paździora (prisoner number: E-6820), and Leopold Paździora (prisoner number: 39232). Antoni is listed in the Memorial Book as murdered in Auschwitz on 22 March,
Tag: Writing
Three Short Poems and an Oddity
Poems by Eric Pazdziora. Oddity found on poemhunter.com. I. Lines Found Scrawled on the Wall of an Abandoned Abecedarium Abe, he see the effigy, Age-eyed, shaky elemental peak— You are rusty, you veer, Double your ex-wife’s sea. II. Trial
The Land Without Stories
I’m delighted to announce that my short story “The Land Without Stories” has been published in a brand-new anthology entitled New Fairy Tales: Essays and Stories. Edited by my brother John, who has a freshly-minted PhD in literature from St Andrews,
On the Directionality of Thumbs: A Tribute to Roger Ebert
One of my favorite writers died this week. For the first time in quite a while, next time I want to see whether I might be interested in a new movie, I won’t get to see what Roger Ebert thought
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The Galatian Road out of Legalism
(Originally published in 2010 as a guest post on “The Cult Next Door.“) Legalism. It’s one of those nasty words that everybody points to as an example of religion gone wrong. Everybody knows that you shouldn’t be a legalist. Everybody
Is Christmas Biblical? A Few More Comments
It’s now officially the time of year — i.e., Christmas — when people find my website by searching for such unlikely things as “Is Christmas Pagan?” and “The True Meaning of Christmas Trees” and “Tacky Nativity Scenes” and, of course, “Angels
How Does Jesus Love You?
In May 2010, Hillary McFarland invited me to write a guest post for her lovely website Quivering Daughters, which offered healing for victims of Spiritual Abuse within the so-called “Biblical Patriarchy” movement. Not knowing at the time that this would turn
Interview: Anita Singleton-Prather on the Power of Storytelling
From the files of things I’ve been doing lately, here’s one I’m especially happy with. For my day job — which, for those who don’t know, involves web content and music for an African American Christian publisher — I got
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The Myth of the Weaker Vessel
In response to a popular pastor’s perplexing pronouncement that “God has given Christianity a masculine feel,” Rachel Held Evans asked Christian men to write a blog post “that celebrates the importance of women in the Church.” Here’s mine. Lately, both