An Introduction to Sonship: John 1:6-18
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not…
John 1:1-5 — A Jewish Mystic Prologue to a Greco-Roman World
Almost a year ago, we did an introduction to the Gospel of John. It was an attempt to cross off a decade-old New Year’s resolution that turned into writing a…
Every Day Thanksgiving: This Is the Day the Lord Has Made
“The greatest of all illusions is to take things for granted.” — G.K. Chesterton Happy Thanksgiving! Holiday loneliness, family drama, financial burdens, and avoiding political and controversial issues at the…
“Am I Safe?” — From PTSD to Providence in “I AM”
“Once we know that the entire physical world around us, all of creation, is both the hiding place and the revelation place for God, this world becomes home, safe, enchanted,…
The War Inside:Psalm 35, Music,& Praising In Pain
David stood as an iconic priest-king archetype, something of a hierophant, a figure who mediated the Divine on behalf of the people. Before all of that, he was first a…
Jonah As The Goblin King: On Descent, Costumes, and Growing Up
Tonight, the veil is thin. In many cultures, All Hallows’ Eve marks a moment of rupture: the night the boundaries between the visible world and the underworld dissolve. As the…
Residue of Resurrection: 7 Essays on Ego-Death and the End of the Internal King
We Are Not Deconstructing Faith. Just Christendom. This collection of essays is the overflow from the excavation that birthed my book, The Son of Man & Its Mystical Awakening. They…
The Objective Reality of Love and Truth: Neuroscience, Ontology, & the Gospel
“God is love.” — 1 John 4:8 Love and truth are objective realities that manifest in and through subjective human experiences. They’re not merely private sentiments but observable forces with…
Demons We Don’t Name: Scapegoating Halloween by Modern Christianity
“It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.” — Carl Jung Last October,…
Every Child of God: Debunking the “Chosen One” Myth
In the second Bible family story, after both Adam and Eve ate of the fruit and then blamed each other, Creation, and God, Cain’s offering wasn’t accepted while Abel’s was.…
