Today my friend Ryan Bell posted this: “Some losses are a song interrupted. Some run their course and make coherent sense but sudden ruptures are deeply unsettling. Like a chord unresolved, it irritates and agonizes, not necessarily even because you loved the song so much, but because that’s not how music is supposed to work. Like a story that…
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Ryan Bell Is Back!
I posted this on Facebook yesterday (March 29, 2017): Ryan Bell is back! After a 6-month “hiatus” from podcasting, he has just published another one. And I just finished listening to it. I have been curious about what he’s been doing, other than being at Iron Triangle Brewery, but I figured he’d tell us sooner or…
Year Without Carbs
Last year (2014), my ex-pastor friend Ryan Bell* decided to try “a year without God.” “For the next 12 months I will live as if there is no God,” he wrote. “I will not pray, read the Bible for inspiration, refer to God as the cause of things, or hope that God might intervene and…