Eclectic musings on faith, society, culture, and creed. Engaging society from the foundations up, we contemplate the disparate elements that comprise our world: art, literature, philosophy, history, science, language, politics, communication, and faith.
Because it's a weird and wonderful world, and the fun ain't over yet.
Meet the Ante-Occidents:
Brandon is a twenty something from Memphis. He has a Bachelor of Arts in History and works at a library. He's a vegetarian foodie whose favorite restaurants invariably go out of business. He enjoys wandering around the Brooks Museum while listening to good music. He likes to write and to cook, though he's not particularly good at either. 
Evan is a floundering neutralist. He generally dwells in possibility, but occasionally makes excursions to visit his wife Elizabeth and caoch an age group swim team full time. His influences include, but are not limited to: Arthur Schopenhauer, Dr. Keith Callis, procrastination, and smog.
Chase is a German(Hessian)/Welsh-American, with a bit of Cherokee and Czech ancestry to make things interesting. Raised Southern Baptist, he felt something missing. He explored many other religions from Buddhism and Daoism to Hinduism and Islam. He has found his home in the Orthodox Church. He is currently in college studying computer science and physics. He does, however, delve into the more liberal artsy subjects, as he loves history and languages. His greatest passion is for building things--and as such his goals in life include learning carpentry, woodworking, and metalworking. As for hobbies, he enjoys games that involve logic and strategy (Chess, Go, Sudoku, etc.). Someday he'd like to own a farm and maintain some degree of self-sufficiency.
Josh is the unusual product of intense cultural collisions. He exists in a web of odd, complex tensions, including that of being an Eastern Christian of Western heritage, as well as growing up in several foreign countries before returning to the idiosyncracies of life in the Southern U.S. Josh loves to study and observe communication dynamics, at intrapersonal, interpersonal, and societal levels.
