Paul McLellan

What do you do when the act of prayer (pick your religion) no longer matches up to your life’s painful experiences? Is it possible that prayer is an overhyped and useless practice?

An introspective and emotional look into the life and death of my sister, who meant very much to me. After over 20 years of fighting, she lost her battle against mental illness and the effects of the loss are so impactful.

How two days in Ojai, CA with some fellow wanderers helped me process some immense trauma and finally give words to the most difficult day in my entire life. Includes a recent podcast with a friend I met in Ojai.

I’ve observed three primary presentations of “Christianity” in people. Two of the three have very little to do with the original person that this religion and way of life was modeled after. Let’s break down these types and learn which one is truest to the original form.

I’m by no means an expert, but after having raised 9 children, I have a few thoughts on what works and what doesn’t when trying to give the world some good humans. This flies in the face what both the general public and conservative Christianity would preach.

I grew up at a legalistic church, high school and went to a legalistic Bible college. I’ve experienced more abuse and criticism in the name of Jesus than amongst anyone else. Such a sad paradox.

The Bible. The book that Cerebral Christians attain power to that never claimed to have its own power, or at the very least, that cannot have the power to claim its own power. Enter the world of circular reasoning, where there is an endless loop of self-authentication that some Christians give this book that they’ve turned into a weapon.

How I narrowly escaped legalism and subsequently wandered through a wasteland of reflection to find deep and profound meaning in my evolving understanding of life, suffering and “God”.

The concept of “hell”, as a lake of fire set aside for eternal torment simply is not found anywhere in the Bible. Here is proof that it does not exist but instead of a gross misinterpretation from “Sheol”, “Hades”, “Tartarus” and “Gehenna”!

ShoutLife.com was a truly unique social networking experience; a family-friendly community that impacted hundreds of thousands of people.

Before you could connect to the internet with high speed cable modems, you were limited to connecting to localized networks through a telephone-based modem at a very, very low speed. 

Although I am a full-time web developer now, I got my start with programming on the Commodore Amiga computer system.  What is the Amiga you may ask?