Monthly Archives: March 2022

Album Review: This Woman

Posted on March 25, 2022 by nathanalbright

This Woman, by LeAnn Rimes I have to admit that I am rather nostalgic about this period of LeAnn Rimes’ career. While she was promoting this album on tour I had the chance to hear the artist play many of … Continue reading →

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I Know That Name

Posted on March 24, 2022 by nathanalbright

To what extent do our self-identifications matter? There is a great deal of discourse today about identity, and most of the time this question of identity relates to the struggle between what we say about ourselves and how we identify … Continue reading →

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Album Review: Twisted Angel

Posted on March 24, 2022 by nathanalbright

Twisted Angel, by LeAnn Rimes During the early 2000s, country singer LeAnn Rimes made an album that sought to appeal to pop audiences that showed a somewhat messier side of her personality and the life that she was living. The … Continue reading →

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Ukraine: On Finding Identity In Negative Spaces

Posted on March 23, 2022 by nathanalbright

One of the aspects of Russia’s claims about the Ukraine that has struck me as being particularly unrealistic is their denial of Ukrainian as a genuine identity. There has long been a habit of thinking among Russian leaders that those … Continue reading →

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On The Geopolitics Of Fantasy Games

Posted on March 22, 2022 by nathanalbright

One of my hobbies is worldbuilding. The creation of imaginary worlds as the material for thought experiments and the like is something that is a good way to better understand the world. When we can understand the effect of the … Continue reading →

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In Praise Of Nashville Radio

Posted on March 21, 2022 by nathanalbright

I belong to a group of people who tend to have a negative view on the radio. While I listen to streaming at home and satellite radio in my car these days mostly and not to local FM stations as … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: The Batman

Posted on March 21, 2022 by nathanalbright

Starring Robert Pattinson as the third man in recent years, at least, to play the caped crusader, and Zoe Kravit as Selina Kyle (aka the Catwoman), this movie is a generally very good and very complicated picture of the titular … Continue reading →

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The Happiness Of Leah

Posted on March 20, 2022 by nathanalbright

[Note: The following is the prepared text for a split-sermon given to the Portland congregation of the United Church of God on Sabbath, March 19, 2022.] I hope you are all having a happy and blessed Sabbath day today. Do … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Beyond Sing The Woods

Posted on March 19, 2022 by nathanalbright

Beyond Sing The Woods, by Trygve Gulbranssen When I was about ten pages or so from finishing the book, I wondered how it was that the main characters were going to resolve their difficulties. It seemed like an obvious pairing … Continue reading →

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Changing Each Other

Posted on March 19, 2022 by nathanalbright

Most of us are well aware of the (sometimes unpleasant) reality that the institutions we are a part of seek to change us. Through the sometime maladroit mean of carrots and sticks they seek to push and prod and motivate … Continue reading →

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