Psalm 121 & Strikes Of The Moon
“The Psalms are not primarily about God but about the life of the soul in relation to God.” — C.S. Lewis In front of me was the director of the…
Emperor & Pyre: A Caesar & Naked Monk Walk into Eleusis Together…
“Be shrewd as serpents but innocent as doves” has always been a favorite verse of mine. So, my devil horns poked up when I heard last year was the Year…
BOOK EXCERPT: Man as the Measure & the Cave’s Shadow
Below is the second part of an excerpt from The Son of Man & Its Mystical Awakening. The first part looked at the objective realities of our inner subjective experiences…
BOOK EXCERPT: The Truth & Love Of Chaos & Order
We’ve spent centuries caught in a binary argument: Nature versus Nurture. We are neither, and both, yet told we were either the sum of our imperfect nature or the byproduct…
Demythologizing Addiction: A Recovering Pastor’s Map Through the Wreckage
“Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance.” — Luke 5:31-32 In AA, we like…
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…
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.…
The Neuro-Theology of Agape: The Greatest Command(s) and the Mind/Body Problem
“The left hemisphere needs certainty and needs to be right. The right hemisphere makes it possible to hold several ambiguous possibilities in suspension together without premature closure on one outcome.”…
Proving Modern Jesus Freaks Wrong: How Faking the Gospel Gets People Killed
….No duh! America is a circus. Sorry that a former Evangelical pastor, recovering alcoholic, and cis-white male, with no functioning party to be loyal to, has something to say that’s…
