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Bill Oberst Jr.

Bill Oberst Jr.

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Nov 24, 2025

The Walk — Bill Oberst Jr.

Barefoot Billy: Sole To Soul

Bill Oberst Jr black and white portrait shirtless open shirt illustrating the spiritual concept of kenosis and the naked servant.

Bill Oberst Jr.

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Feb 20, 2023

Ashes To (Star)Dust

Wednesday morning at seven Carl Sagan will whisper into my ear.

Ashes To (Star)Dust

Bill Oberst Jr.

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Dec 21, 2021

Silence Nice?

Winter Solstice, 2021

Silence Nice?

Bill Oberst Jr.

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May 10, 2021

And It Was Night: Horror & Faith

I generally believe that a person’s faith is most authentic when least discussed. Talk less, love more, you know?

And It Was Night: Horror & Faith

Bill Oberst Jr.

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May 4, 2020

Common Dreams

4:00 AM.

Common Dreams

Bill Oberst Jr.

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Apr 27, 2020

Coronavirus Is An Unplanned Pregnancy

“Something was dying, something was being born — but what?” (Carl Sandburg)

Horror movie still frame: a man’s hand touches a sleeping woman’s shoulder.

Bill Oberst Jr.

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Dec 28, 2019

Wo(Man) Of Sorrows

The people I tend to trust carry faintly about them the scent of graveyard dust; a hint of nightshade; a flash of familiar scarring and…

Wo(Man) Of Sorrows

Bill Oberst Jr.

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Jun 24, 2019

Into The Great “I Don’t Know”

A question made me laugh this week: “Who goes to heaven?” It was asked, interviewer to interviewee, on a radio show discussing faith. A…

Into The Great “I Don’t Know”

Bill Oberst Jr.

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Nov 19, 2018

How To Act

Ask yourself: “Is this the loving thing to say or do?”

Bill Oberst Jr.

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Jun 25, 2018

In A Larger Sense…

Once, in a movie, I got to say them for the ages — my favorite four words of the Gettysburg Address. A series of odd events (which pretty…

Bill Oberst Jr.

Bill Oberst Jr.

I live barefoot to know the kenosis of Christ. I act to know the woundedness of us. My bedtime podcast is Gothic Goodnight. BillOberst.com AdversaryShow.com

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