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…
The Death We Fear: On Resisting Change in Others
“Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.” — Pema Chödrön The way we resist change personally and in our own lives is a…
Before We Dive In: A Personal Introduction to The Son of Man & Its Mystic Awakening
The book is moving forward. The manuscript is being imported into InDesign. A handful of guest pieces are out for review—submissions to Sojourners, Relevant Magazine, Christian Century, Branded Way, and…
What Is Love? Rediscovering Agape in a Modern Time
“The whole law is fulfilled in one word: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'” – The Apostle Paul “What is truth?” Pilate asked Jesus, a question that still echoes through…
