A bit of a personal update that serves a secondary purpose of cataloguing current projects in the docket. All of these are underway, and some are on Patreon.

Day Job Writing

In my day job, some of this is finding its way back into Stigma Marketing & Development. While that pays the bills, the source (my “why”) comes from the spiritual lessons and philosophical concepts explored here. Elijah may not make sense to a restaurant owner needing a website, but those kinds of things have been reframing everything for me. Writing was an outlet that, once opened, became a flood. We need not talk about journaling, but there’s a stack of filled journals from the last couple of years that tell that story.

Authenticity and human relationships became fundamental pillars for marketing, leadership, and organizational culture. With AI here to stay and growing, there is plenty of overlap between what these two niche websites represent.

Here’s a recent article regarding AI and the ethics of marketing as an example:

• The Reverse Turing Test: Marketing, Mimesis, & AI Sobriety

Christianity Projects

Right now, I’m blogging a commentary through the Gospel of John. That will be a long series, and when completed, collected and edited into it as a single commentary. When the Bible In Context class gets going again, we’ll be starting in the Gospel of John.

There are a couple of other things in the works, including the beginning of research on a book idea. A couple of the items below exists rough drafts on Patreon.:

• Thus Spoke Photini: This is going to be response to Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra. At the moment, I’m “slow reading” through Neitzche’s book again and taking notes on the plot and elements that will be included in the response.
  It’s still early in conceptual develpment but it will begin with a woman in a cave, retrace some Zarathustra’s steps, and engage with his disciples.
• The Imperial Reconfiguration: This is a dive into Constantine’s conversion of Christ into Caesar. Tracing historical evidence, it shows how the Original Christian movement shifted from a decentralized network of “witnesses” to a state-integrated “Imperial Temple.” A first pass rough draft is on Patreon if interested.
  
  “This transition… was not a linear progression of theological refinement, but a systematic reconfiguration of power, language, architecture, and law… effectively replacing the unmediated, conscious experience of the individual with a state-manageable religious monopoly.”
• Red Letter Christians Devotionals: RLC graciously invited me to write two weeks of devotionals for 2026, and I selected Holy Week and Environmental Week. Holy Week is still brewing in the laboratory, and the Environmental Week explores where Scripture hints at Creation’s longing for us to return to it.
• Turning the Genesis-John-Revelation Class into a Free eBook: This is for a lead magnet and for Patreons. Using the material from the three classes, I’m piecing them together into a short ebook that will help people destigmatize the Bible and read it for themselves. If it works, the Bible should be reading you.
• Sovereign Equilibrium: Maybe the craziest idea, even more than the Fermi one (see below), but it’s more than hinted at in my book. It proposes a memetic equilibrium, or a Sovereign Equilibrium, that is a suggested improvement over Nash’s equilibrium. Now… I’m not a mathematician; the furthest I got was some calculus in high school and CLEP-ing most of my college requirements. The plan is to get the idea nailed down, do as much of the math as I can figure out, and then bring it to an actual professor to ask how crazy it is. As an example, it suggests the Prisoner’s dilemma is flawed, both ignoring third parties and internal motivators.
• The Silence of the Stars (HEAT Thesis): Right now, there is a version on Academia and an old Patreon-exclusive. I’m still playing with the idea, and it’s evolved, despite being mostly a nerdy project. One of these days, I might spend more time with it, since it feels like a solid Great Filter candidate and answer to the Fermi Paradox, which asks where all the evidence for alien life is if it is so common. And the answer suggested, ironically, is the Christ mindset.
• Other Projects in the Works:
  • Eastern DNA: Buddhism was in the ANE, and Jesus was a kind of Bodhisattva, or shaman. In fact, Jesus and the New Testament hints the the Western world will find redemption from the East. We’re just avoiding it…still.
  • Christianity’s Original Anthropological Solution: A holistic suggestion for bodily and spiritual integration and sanctification through ego-diminishment, detachment, discipline, mindfulness, and study for our modern, tech-flooded era.
  • The Myth of Intelligence & “On AI”: Two pieces I’ve been waiting on purpose to tackle. They are about what the title suggests. With Intelligence, I’ll be exploring my own relationship with intelligence and some things I’ve been learning. With AI, I’m getting ready to discuss both its global and fast-approaching implications within the next 10 years, but also how it’s already collapsing humanity and society, and what the next decade holds in store if we don’t seriously wake up.

Website Updates:

The Bookshelf is being updated, and the Now page is next. This year, I’m redoing the Resources page so things like sermon outlines, curriculum, articles, and other things can be dumped there for churches, faith communities, and ministers.

Personal Update:

Last week was my 41st birthday, and I took the day to spend it mostly in silence. It was really good. Other than hanging with a few friends, the best birthday gift was being invited to be a part of a Native American sweat lodge this last Saturday. It was good. And a group of people I’ll definitely return to again. Don’t be surprised if it shows up in my writing.

Since the Fall and especially the New Year, there had been a lot of processing and work behind the scenes. In just the last month, there was an exhausting amount of stuff. It is interesting how it all dropped at once. God was calling for more personal digging and inner house cleaning: more tears shed and surrender. Humility and emotional regulation have been long, stubborn lessons. There’s still a lot of wreckage clean-up work to do.

IRL has changed a lot in a few months, which means I’ve been able to make some adjustments and let go of some things I’ve been needing to.

Also, I had been praying for a new sponsor or mentor—I didn’t care anymore—for almost a year. And God came through. I found a brother and someone I can trust to walk me through the Steps again, rather than me trying to white-knuckle it myself. In the past, I shared about keeping my mouth shut in the rooms, and some of AA’s tribal-religious beliefs that I kept my guard over. However, I’ve worked through a lot of those, and it was time to give back to a community I had learned and gained so much from. There’s a group I’m helping chair for the next 6 months on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and trying to be more a part of the “fellowship.” They’ve been good for me.

Hypothetically, at least, that the next chapter already begun, and I missed it.

A Birthday Wish (How to Support Drunk Pastor)

If what’s happening here has been useful to you—intellectually, spiritually, or simply as a place where someone isn’t bullshitting you—these are three real ways to support it:

• Share Drunk Pastor Stuff: Drunk Pastor doesn’t grow because it plays the algorithm game. It grows when something lands with the right person at the right time. If a post clarified something you’ve struggled to articulate, unsettled you in a way that felt honest, or said out loud what church language usually avoids—pass it on. Send it to someone who might actually read it. Not everyone. Just someone.
  
  That’s how this work has always moved: quietly, relationally, person to person.
• Become a Patreon: Most of what’s written here takes time to live into before it’s written out. Projects stall because that time isn’t available yet. Patreon doesn’t buy “content”; it provides margin: space to think, edit, research, and finish things properly, as well as people who want to engage with it all. If you care about where this work is going, that’s the most direct way to support it. If you see it too, and feel that burning in your bosom kind of thing, consider supporting Drunk Pastor on Patreon.
• Buy my first bulky and uncopyedited book: The Son of Man & Its Mystical Awakening (and leave a review). It is big, it is dense, and it is a serious attempt to help people understand something profound contained on every page of Scripture. The writing, the exact elements may not be perfect, but the thesis of the book is more right than wrong. It’s true.

As long as God sees fit, I’ll be writing, and this book was just the first. I promise future ones won’t be like it, at least not all of them. I’d also love to rewrite my book into a more digestible one one day, possibly using more history. But there’s only so much time, and it doesn’t pay the bills right now.

Stay tuned for more content, updates, and Christian mysticism coming out.