October 8, 2026
It’s been over a year since The Son of Man was rushed to Amazon. And over 6 months since the last Now page update. But it’s not been for a lack of things happening.
There are several blog posts, starting back with tracing the out Eastern Christianities and Roman history and ancient Jewish writings, to more recently a personal reflection on an old Native American lesson, and most recently a long-form commentary on the Lord’s Prayer.
Recently, I had some work that dealt with AI and a backend system. That gave me a bunch of ideas and some things I needed to learn about for work. It was a good distraction too. So, Drunk Pastor now has a community-funded AI tool that is built on the entire corpus of my writings, from blogs, the book, Every Human’s Journey, articles on Academia, guest pieces, unpublished material, and more. That system has been integrated in a basic way through Hover Cards and search results, as well as Urim, an AI tool that a person can ask (almost) any question.
It’s still early and has some things that will take time to finish; it may not always work, but the bones are built and the system running. It can be glitchy — it’s running on a lot of free accounts. So, definitely a sandbox WIP project. There’s more info on the page, including how Patreon is integrated into it.
A New Interview
Back in July, Clint of Dismantling Doctrine shared a discussion we had about deconstruction and my mystical experience through recovery.
Personal Update
Personally, the Elijah-Elisha exploration broke open a lot of things, and then life threw in one heck of a curveball summer that brought an unexpected source of healing and hard lessons (it’s available as a free download). I’m incredibly grateful for a lot and keep finding more. Working out and through some things with my AA community has brought a lot of needed relief and growth, as well as more uncomfortable processing.
Looking back at everything I’ve done in the last few years, it looks like a lot of things to me. Some of it makes me smile and chuckle a little at this moment. Others took time to get comfortable looking at for any length of time. Meanwhile, I had no idea what to do with everything I had been chewing through. Clearly, I was trying to figure something out and, like a dog chasing a car, I had no idea what I had done with what I had bit down on.
So a major project this year was to outline it here on the website and start using it. I had a bad habit of needing to overstudy something and not just going through with it. Studying has its blessings, but life isn’t studied: it’s lived.
The summer was a whirlwind of surprises and healthy lessons. It stirred up a lot. There are some meetings that I need to follow up on and schedule new ones.
I’ve been applying myself more to work (a pivot coming there) and AA, leaning more into them, and trying to juggle what I had, working with work through things God has brought up this year since January. It’s been a burning, purging kind of year. A really good one. It has come in waves, where one swells and feels overwhelming, and I might dip into a depression looking at everything. And then it lifts and carries things away with it…normally. Sometimes, I really like holding on to things.
God has given me much to be grateful for, and I was just blind to it. The small community of people I get to call friends and who help me through their own stories, the people I get to work with and experience the promises of recovery (and Scripture) with, have been “good medicine.” They have taught me much this year. God has used them. Which also scared some shit out of me…still does some. It’s been needed.
There’s a lot of work to do.
Jesus is the one thing I have no regrets about, because no matter what, He knows how to handle broken sinners and arrogant drunks. Over and over again, it was at His feet and in His hands, through His words, that healing broke through.
NOW ARCHIVE
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Recent Personal Blogs
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All My Relations
While writing my book, a conclusion came into sight that brought tools, implications, and direction. One of those was what I called the 1-to-1 Relationship. It is learning to encounter…
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Pivot Mental States: The Power of Worship
Worshipping Jesus isn’t nice. It’s good medicine. As I’ve learned with a lot of things, what matters in worship is the how, not so much the what. As a concept,…
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Architecture of Surrender: Neurogenesis, Recovery, & the Science of Change (pt. 1)
“We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling. Therefore, the judgment of the intellect is, at best, only…
