If you like message boards, you might appreciate this website, called Christian Pipe Smokers:
Pipes and Piety
I stumbled onto a new podcast today called “Pipes and Piety,” which I thought some might appreciate:
https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/pipes-and-piety
The Churchwarden
I think my first exposure to other Christian pipe smokers was a fellow named Perry Fuller, who managed a newsletter – both online and off, as I understand it, called “The Churchwarden.” This newsletter contained reviews of various tobacco blends, commentary on fly fishing, musings on the peacefulness of a pipe, and deeper theological reflections.
Right away I was hooked, and I began reading his site, and subscribing to his email newsletter.
That was back in about 2002, or 2003 I think.
Recently, when creating this HolySmokers.club presence, I did a search for articles on “pipes and theology,” and his old Geocities website was returned near the top of the results! I couldn’t believe it!
I reached out to him, and asked him if he’d consider being an occasional contributor here, and he agreed. Watch for his articles in the near future!
Welcome, Perry! God bless you, brother.
Jason
Interesting Article on Pipe Smoking and Theology
I found an article today comparing the various ways of using tobacco (cigarettes, cigars, pipes, chewing, snuff), with approaches to doing life. There were lots of really insightful ideas contained, and it’s not a very long read.
Here’s an excerpt:
Finally, the pipe corresponds to the rational part of the soul, which explains why we tend to picture wise figures smoking pipes: the Oxford don surrounded by his great books, or Sherlock Holmes, who, in Doyle’s original stories, actually smoked other sorts of tobacco as well, yet is almost always portrayed with a pipe. Unlike cigars and cigarettes, a pipe endures. Similarly, the questions of the philosopher far outlast the passing concerns of physical desires on the one hand and human ambitions on the other. Further, while the cigar is entirely masculine, the pipe has both masculine and feminine elements (the stem and the bowl). This corresponds to the philosopher’s activity, which is both masculine and feminine: masculine in its pursuit of Lady Truth, feminine in its reception of anything that she discloses. Finally, the effect that the pipe has on others is analogous to the effect of philosophizing: the sweet fragrance of a pipe, like good philosophy, is a blessing to all who are near.
https://www.firstthings.com/article/1997/04/tobacco-and-the-soul