The Wandering Heretic

Since I will be making arrangements for my father’s funeral, I will not be doing much posting this week. In addition, I just don’t feel like it. In honor of my dad, I want to list the posts I made reflecting on him and his trip with cancer toward his eventual death. It was a [...]

Dedicated to the Memory of My Father Once upon a time, God became tired of all the children who complained each night about the parents He gave them.  This criticism of His choices in parentage increased exponentially once the same children reached their teenaged years.  So God decided on an experiment.  He created the souls [...]

  Not certain what was going through my mind when I drew these panels; however, for fun, watch the phone move to different spots on the desk in each panel.  Click on the "joshuas-people" tag on the sidebar under Galleries to see all of the cartoons published this far. Also, click on the "Joshua's People" [...]

It is now official!  Taylor Hicks is the 2006 American Idol.  My guilty pleasure apparently was the guilty pleasure of a large percentage of the USA population as well.  And yes, I voted last night.  I literally laid on my redial button from 9:00 until 1:00 AM trying to vote (and getting through about only [...]

A few posts ago I discussed the current disparity in Christian views about the afterlife. I used an old episode of Kung Fu (The Soul is the Warrior) to illustrate the extreme ends of the opinions held.  I chose two characters in the episode who epitomized the extremes: Caine, who represented the eternal continuance of [...]

What is it about Christians that they get themselves all up in arms about the strangest things?  Our world is plunged in misery, poverty, and oppression.  Tyrants everywhere oppress and harass the church.  Christians in foreign countries are under tremendous persecution, some facing torture and death.  Even in the relatively safe United States, divorce is [...]

They put my father on a morphine pump today.  The mesothelioma had progressed to the point that the oral morphine was doing very little good.  Within four hours time, the pain would break through and almost destroy him.  When I got the call that the pump was inserted, I heard the nails pounding deeper into [...]

Sheriff Thoms: I've seen death piled around me until the air couldn't gather.  I'm afraid of it.  Smoked dry waiting for it.  Gone past my luck.  Ed Rankin's gone through it like I have but fear has never touched that man being Indian.  They believing that life runs flat like a table and death isn't [...]

"My son is lost in a dark place. A labyrinth of negative emotions. If he cannot conquer them, he will die. And his soul will forever remain in limbo. I cannot allow that to happen." – Caine to Dr. Sabourin about his son, Peter.  From the Kung Fu: The Legend Continues episode, The Bardo. My [...]

This cartoon was also inspired by a real situation. When I was still dating my future wife, she said she thought it was impossible for me to be able to frown. Even when I tried, she said it looked artificial and contrived when I did it. Since we have been married, unfortunately, she has changed [...]