Eric M. Pazdziora

I have some experience and training as a professional writer, but mostly these days I write to please myself (and the readers of my blog "Pass the Aura").  Here are links to some of my recent projects that have found their way online.  Also visit http://www.abidejournal.org to find some of my articles published in this jounal for Christian youth.

Bible Studies on the Theology of Music and Worship:
Deuteronomy 12
Psalm 84
Isaiah 44
Deuteronomy 31
2 Samuel 6:16-23
Ezekiel 33:30-33
Three Passages that are Not About Music
John 4
Psalm 96
Psalm 33

Practical Tips for Worship Leading
Take it to the Bank: Discerning Counterfeits in the Cash Drawer and the Church

Bible Study / Theology:
The Bible and Personal Interpretation
The Baptism with the Holy Spirit
Jesus and the Sufficiency of Scripture
Difficulties in the Bible
Free Indeed
The Gospel According to Homestar
God is Love
More on God's Love
The Truth About Passion
More about Passion
The Bible is Incredible?
Is Jesus Jehovah?
Comments on Relativism and the Bible
Jesus: The Jewish Messiah
Love God, Love Your Neighbor
Free Will in Heaven?
What is God's Will?
He Descended into Hell: A Study in the Apostles' Creed
Meditations on the Rejection of Christ
The Bible and How it Got That Way: Myth vs. Truth
Jesus' Love for the Church
R. A. Torrey Debunks The Da Vinci Code
Eric's Handy Guide to Refuting Dangerous False Teachings
How Could a Non-Existent God Allow the "Argument from Suffering" to Exist?
Conversation With My Inner Doubting Thomas
Mild at Heart: The Problems with Wild at Heart, and What the Bible Really Teaches
I Don't Have Enough Faith....
Answers to the Ultimate Questions!
Heaven: a Preliminary Study
On the Impeachment of Paul
Lessons from the Hypocrites
Answering the Antitheists(?)
Is Christmas Pagan? Putting the "Bug" back in "Humbug"
Challenging the Blasphemy Challenge! (Featuring the video, "Blaspheming Magical Frungle-Bunnies")
Q & A at the Worship Cafe

Satirical Fables:
Series 1
Series 2
Series 3
Series 4
Series 5
Series 6
Series 7
Series 8
Series 9
Series 10
Series 11
Series 12
Series 13
Series 14

Humor
The Modern Evangelical Really Short Catechism
The Brown Code
The Brown Code 2
The Blurbie Awards
Who's On Philosophy
The Blind Men Revisited
Secrets of Sloppy Service
Shakespeare Couplets
The Glass is...
Footprints revisited
S.A.N.T.A. on Christmas Music
S.A.N.T.A. Part 2
Going Bananas
Rotten in Denmark
Michael Easley: The Exegeter
Dark Sayings of my Pet, Peeve
WWJD?
The Return of S.A.N.T.A.
Love as Pyrotechnics
The Parable of the Treasure-Hunters
Dark Sayings of my Pet, Peeve (part 2): Eric’s Probably-Too-Concise Dictionary of Christian Clichés

Other:
Till We Have Faces review
Jesus, I Am Resting (hymn study)
Study on Depression
On Ethnodoxology
Ethnodoxology and Church Music
A Hound Story
On Persecution and the Canaan Hymns
Motivations for Ministry
On Improvisation
On Improvisation 2 (reader responses)
Moviemaking in Narnia
In Memoriam Sir Malcolm Arnold
Movie Review: Jesus Camp
The Music of Heaven (live)
Movie Review: The Nativity Story
History Repeats Itself (a little too much)
To Live is Christ
The Skeleton in Somebody's Closet

These writings are published on my blog at http://www.xanga.com/pass_the_aura.   Check for regular updates!  Or click here to peruse my blog's tags, a more fluid (rather postmodern) way to see posts on related subjects.

Jesus, I Am Resting: Studies from the Hymn

Letters to the Editor (various publications)