Theologian - Preacher - Poet

PRACTICALLY THEOLOGY
Seeking the Sacred Between Us
What Did Mary Know?
It has been taken up by meme lords and keyboard warriors—the issue of the beloved but hotly debated Mark Lowry hit, “Mary, Did You Know?”...
Play to Rebel
Music was my first love. Some of my earliest childhood memories involve sneaking out of bed to hear my mother quietly play her piano in...
On Blog Neglect and Magical Containers
Though I am inclined to feel some shame for the way I have neglected this blog, I have had some very valid reasons for neglecting it....
You Don't Have to Redeem 2020
“Are you…ok? Like, are you making it?” My colleague, whom I had not seen in nearly a year, peered at me from a small Zoom window,...
Hope Flickers
Has hope ever been so elusive, so invisible or out of reach, that when it finally showed up, you resented it a little bit? Most of my...
The Myth of Independence and the Interdependent God
(or, Toward a Theology of Wearing Masks) Last year on the Fourth of July, I shared these thoughts on Facebook: "On this day, may we be...
Welcome to the Apocalypse
About a week ago, I woke up in the middle of the night with words—lots of words—strung together in paragraph form. Now, this is a far cry...