Monthly Archives: February 2014

The Church of Splendor: The path to every human value is paved with poetry.

This week’s service: The Power of Poetry. It makes girls swoon and boys fight, and it drives every quest for the next frontier: poetry. And yet it is mocked everywhere, most especially in academic mock-poetry, and it is ridiculed and … Continue reading

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Thriving lessons: First you have to turn around…

This is the homily from my first service for The Church of Splendor with all the church business cut out. This is a philosophically ambitious argument about moral ambition, an equally-opportunisitical offender, a thoroughgoing take-down – and rebuilding – of … Continue reading

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Don’t like the world the way it is? I can show you how to change everything in five years.

You give me 99 seconds, I’ll give you a brand new world… This is from my first service for The Church of Splendor. If you want to see the whole argument, go here.

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Getting #marriage so right that you manage to stay married all the way to the end of the day.

Want to stay married forever? Try staying married every day.When you hire an Irishman to speak, there are three words you never have to pay for. They’re not in my script, but you can hear them in the video of … Continue reading

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Introduction to The Church of Splendor: Let’s do something different.

This is the opening sequence from my first service for The Church of Splendor: If you want to see the whole argument, go here.

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The Church of Splendor: What should a morally-ambitious person do?

I keep talking about starting an atheist church. Here I am, starting one. My goal is to do this live on Saturday afternoons from a congenial bar, but Sunday mornings are a churchy enough time of day to start with. … Continue reading

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My value proposition – to you – and what you need to do about it.

I’ve got the Phoenix by the wings and we can fly where we want to go.Tambako the Jaguar / Foter / CC BY-ND If you have to tell a man what he’s seeing, it’s not there, not for him. In … Continue reading

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A self-adoration film festival for #ValentinesDay: The path to everything is paved with #poetry.

You are lovable from the inside out. Respond accordingly.seyed mostafa zamani / Foter / CC BY Write the first poem of a better marriage for the two of you: Your marriage isn’t that strong? Here’s why: To get everything the … Continue reading

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The secret to human life in 11 minutes: To be is to do, but to do is to dance.

When are you living in Splendor? When you’re not doing anything else. Why don’t you live that way all the time?

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Weddingsong: The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Anthony and Marilee Johnson.

Click the image to download a PDF copy to print out and tape up on your own bathroom mirror.“Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds or … Continue reading

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