Living Holy Week

This one got away from me as I was putting this together. There’s a few ideas with sub-ideas branching from them. Inspired by texts with friends and conversations with my wife leading up to and on the day-of Easter Sunday. ———————– Spiritually-charged-memorialized- moments are like tattoos on the Soul. They are Ebenezers, to borrow from […]

Don’t cling to me

(Another random collection of thoughts) There’s a deep, energetic… almost oceanic… push and pull, breathing. In and Out. Something rhythmic to the search for one’s own path. I’ve stumbled into beauty more times than I can keep track of. Feels like a daily practice at this point. That surge of Knowing, knowing itself in and […]

Your Unborn Face

This is a fragmented post I wrote late one night. It’s made up of different conversations I had with friends, namely Nick and Tim. Also talks I shared with my wife. I was thinking the other day of Beau’s conception. Not like the actual act of conceiving Beau, although that was great also! I was […]

Body

There’s a nine pound newborn sleeping in our bedroom down the hall. Cooing and grunting in a bassinet next to my wife, this small stranger currently resembles me more than her. It’s uncontested that his lips are his mother’s. It’s an alien phenomenon… to glimpse a couple-of-hours-old baby and know at the deepest level it’s […]

john

There are sounds that wake you up, even when your eyes are open. Your heart, the depth of your life, is pulled to the surface. Anything stagnant is stirred at once. These moments happen often, though we don’t realize them. They happen despite our paying attention. Directing our eyes with fierce conviction that this event […]

Eucharist : Enough

There’s a gift we’ll forsake, a presence we’ll miss, if we choose to be distracted by our own perceived failure, anxiety, and regret in the midst of an Event. I’ve lost count how many times I’m caught up in an article or app on my phone while my wife or friend is sitting beside me […]

Accommodation

The more I search the scriptures and navigate my own life, I’ve begun to realize just how much accommodation precedes love. At the heart of God is a desire to pull people toward a vision of wholeness, not motivated by coercion or shame, but by self-sacrifice and condescension. The condescension of Christ, as found in […]

Truth-Telling

Prophecy is telling the truth with your words and your actions. It is always encouraging to the recipient and always life-giving. This does not mean that there is not a brutal element to telling the truth about God and the world. It only means that the truth is beautiful and mysterious and mostly different than […]

Salvation

More interesting (and more helpful) than listing all of the theories and pictures of the cross I find to be unhelpful and not useful are the ways that the cross can be helpful. I believe that the cross meets us at our deepest need to bring about far more than personal salvation power. Additionally, and in […]

Parabolic Narrative

One of the greatest and most ancient ways to tell a story is by using parables. Like a metaphor or symbol, a parable is larger than the actual story. Parable tells a story that is more-than-true, even if it never historically happened. Our emphasis (mostly in the west) on historical accuracy and reliability has greatly hindered the […]