As part of a writing exercise, I wrote this ending to a story I’ve never made. It is a bit brutal and violent, but that was kind of the point. The idea was to create an extremely dramatic ending where the antagonist dies leaving you wondering…who was this great man and what did he accomplish?
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Matthew Edmund is a Christian writer, small-business owner, and civic participant writing on faith, culture, and public responsibility. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Communication and Journalism from Oakland University and has been active in local politics and abortion abolition. He is the owner of FYRE.IS.
The problem with giving up to avoid disappointment is you also avoid success and fulfillment when you succeed. Avoiding the disappointment of failure inevitably avoids the fulfillment of success. Failure paves the road to success.
This little story was inspired by a comment left on a Fox News article that mentioned “Restoring the Republic”. The wording made me think of the following scene from Star Wars where Darth Vader enters announcing that the “Imperial Senate” has been dissolved. Here I replace the characters in the original script with liberal political…
This post is about the creative process that went into creating my Facebook series The Adventures of Captain Blazer. A long time ago I created a blog called the “Footsteps Unaware – A Day in the Life of the Invisible Man”. By a long time ago I’m talking 7 years ago when I was just…
So, I called it. Not too long ago I mentioned a little tid-bit about how I thought the Republican party was in the midst of a Civil War. Well, it looks like I’m not the only one seeing it. Jenny Beth Martin, leader of the Tea Party Patriots (wait, isn’t the Tea Party suppose to…
Editorial Note This article was originally written in 2013. Since that time, my theological understanding has matured and sharpened. While I still affirm the title “Antisemitism Among Christians: Stupid,” I would frame the argument differently today. First, antisemitism is categorically wrong because all people are created in the image of God. Second, Christians are explicitly…
There has to be something much more fundamentally different about the autistic brain than just a reaction to vaccines or any other environmental trigger. The kinds of differences we see—in how we process information, approach learning, and interact with the world—run deeper than any single “cause” or side effect. If autism were just a matter…