For the better part of a year I’ve been trying to wrap my mind around the support Donald Trump is getting from a certain segment of the Evangelical Christian community 1. He is a man who treats the Image of God with utter contempt, especially when the image-bearer is a woman. He is a man…
Author: Wes Allen
Wes got back in to Role Playing Games during the pandemic and it’s blown up into a wonderful mid-life crisis. He runs the DM Tales YouTube channel and website, GMs two campaigns, and plays online in another with some old friends. His “day job” is a Baptist Pastor in Philadelphia’s Jersey suburbs.
Arsty Keg
Yesterday we took some of our friends to Pennsbury Manor, where a program called “Plants to Pints” was being held. We’d been wanting to bring our friends out to the manor for some time, and felt the program was as good an excuse as any to do so. This historical lesson began, as the name…
Colors of Fall
On Friday I presided over the funeral, and was asked to photograph some of the floral arrangements by the family. Unfortunately, the full display had been taken to the gravesite by the time I had access to my camera. But a single piece, a bamboo cross, was left behind at the request of the woman’s…
Writing Update
I wanted to give a short update on my fiction writing. This past week I released the first section of In the Land of the Penny Gnomes. I’ve been enjoying going through what I’d written several years ago and preparing it for the blog. Penny Gnomes was one of the first projects I attempted in…
Unpacking The Legend of the Penny Gnomes
Yesterday I returned to my first attempt at a novel. It’s a satirical fantasy, with nods to both Terry Pratchett and Jasper Fforde. The opening chapter will, I hope, one day be reworked for an illustrated children’s book. This is why the point of view character is so young — probably about the age my…
