My recent short story, Negative #6, published in the October issue of Kindling, is now being featured on their blog, The Woodpile.
It’s sort of a Behind the Music thing for writers. Check it out here.
Negative #6 Featured in The Woodpile
Posted: January 24, 2012 in Blog EntriesTags: Anthony David Jacques, Behind the Music, Mark Z Danielewski, Negative #6, Writing
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My latest essay is now live over at An American Atheist:
Not only was Judas’ sin integral to the process, but we cannot forget the sins of those who lied about Jesus to rile up the people against him, and those Roman officials who looked the other way, allowing the mob to execute Jesus even though he stood innocent of the charges against him. What we have, then, is a perfect storm of injustice orchestrated to accomplish God’s ultimate plan for the salvation of humanity. And this is one more multi-faceted reason why I can no longer be a Christian.
First, I enthusiastically reject as wholly immoral the act of substitutional atonement purchased through human sacrifice. Furthermore, forgiveness at the expense and ultimate exclusion of the second most necessary figure in God’s plan of salvation only adds another, deeper dimension of immorality.
And it gets even worse.
Read on –>
Orthodoxy ad Absurdum : New Essay
Posted: January 15, 2012 in EssayTags: an american atheist, Christianity, Mount Athos, Orthodoxy, religion
Latest essay up at An American Atheist : Orthodoxy ad Absurdum : How To Waste a Life.
The monks of Mount Athos and its twenty secluded monasteries enjoy the distinction of being the oldest, most secluded, least changed orthodox tradition in the world: The most original Christianity remaining in practice. For more than a thousand years these men have prayed the same prayers and sung the same songs every day, living completely dedicated to drawing closer to God. The men take the Apostle Paul’s charge to pray without ceasing to the furthest possible extent, some claiming the ability to pray even in their sleep.
This may seem like the ultimate expression of a life examined, of introspection and self-realization at its zenith, but I find many reasons to wholeheartedly disagree.
Read on –>
In Christopher Hitchens’ Wake : New Essay
Posted: January 8, 2012 in EssayTags: Cancer, Christianity, Christopher Hitchens, religion
My latest essay is up over at An American Atheist : In Christopher Hitchen’s Wake : Reflections on Cancer and Losing My Religion.
I nearly died of cancer five years ago, so when I heard the news that Christopher Hitchens was facing esophageal cancer in early 2010, it struck one hell of a nerve. I was on my way out of Christianity at the time and had only just discovered the polemical pundit a few months earlier. I found him compelling, well-read and debonair, brilliant and, when needed, rather scathing. Now, it looked like the beginning of my non-religious road may coincide with the end of his.
Read on –>
Year in Review
Posted: December 31, 2011 in Blog EntriesTags: agnosticism, an american atheist, Atheism, Craig Clevenger, gather kindling, manarchy magazine, religion, Richard Thomas, Warmed and Bound
Let’s take this year is reverse order:
My latest essay, Why I Don’t Believe in Kim Jong Il or Jesus Christ, is now live over at An American Atheist.
Also, I’ve separated out my published Fiction and Non-Fiction pages here since I now have enough essays to justify their own page, and going forward I’ll have a monthly column (or two) with ManArchy Magazine in 2012.
The recent Deprogramming series at An American Atheist dealt with growing up within Evangelical Christianity, why I’m no longer a Christian, the value of intellectual honesty, and what we should all remember about end of the world predictions. This series will probably see some more entries in 2012.
I’ve also now got an author page over at Amazon.com. How cool is that?
But perhaps the most exciting news is this: My first two print publications hit the presses late this year.
Negative #6 was published in the October issue of Kindling, a very interesting non-magazine magazine of very short fiction and poetry that I can recommend to just about anyone.
The Liberation of Edward Kellor was published in the noir collection, Warmed and Bound : A Velvet Anthology, and is available at Amazon and Barnes and Noble. This collection features modern noir writers Craig Clevenger, Stephen Graham Jones and Brian Evenson, as well as many promising new voices like Richard Thomas, Caleb J Ross and Vincent Louis Carella.
Truth be told, there’s just too much to list here. Podcast interviews, panel discussions, finally finishing that gemology degree. Just Google my name. Even I’m shocked at the amount of information floating around out there about me. And I intend to keep the momentum going in 2012 (doomsday prophecies be damned!)
Here’s to another good year!
ADJ
