The Independent Kixmiller Pigeon MrkII

Yeah, I try to make the article title as mundane and dry as possible. Clickbait is for those with too much time on their hands! However, one little tidbit about me is that at my church, I teach Sunday School to the adults. While I generally enjoy the job and I throw myself wholeheartedly into the role, sometimes, annoyances so arise. With this blog, I feel I have a lot more space to be more candid about topics that I normally would shy away from during a Sunday School lesson.  I have an unwritten rule: I try hard to avoid the topic of social commentary during my lesson. Sometimes it can't be helped depending on whatever is taught, but by and large, I'm successful in this regard. The reason for this is that people oftentimes get blinded by their own opinion and there is the strong risk of someone passing off their take as quote "Biblical Teaching". However, one topic that always been grinding away at me is when the topics of the current events in the Middle East are br...

The phrase "cancel culture" has been thrown around to the point of it being interpreted as meaningless political slang, and we all know how we feel about political slang on this blog. However, cancel culture is a real thing. No one wants to be held in the hostile court of public opinion. However, it's also a topic that I'm not really invested in (other than this article) for two reasons: 1. Cancel Culture, even though it's been greatly amplified by social media, is as old as well, culture itself. 2. Everybody (including yours truly) has engaged in cancel culture at least to some extent. We are all our own worst enemy in that regard. We can often be hypocrites in that regard. Now, whenever you have culture, you're going to have those who will try to cancel it. The ancient cultures of antiquity usually taken the phrase "cancel culture" quite literally often. Usually, by destroying cities, as like what Babylon did to Nineveh in 612BC.  Throughout histor...