I Don't Know Which Season This Is
There is a version of loosening up that is health. There is a version that is something else. They feel identical from the inside.
5 min read
Theology
The Shape Underneath the Work
I spent twenty years as a United Methodist pastor, mostly in the Hebrew Bible, trying to figure out what these old texts have to say about actual life. These are the essays where the theology comes to the surface — Trinity and perichoresis, the wound as credential, farming and church and the inner life all running under the same three-armed shape. Faith held honestly, with room for doubt and the dark.
Essays
Does God Have an Opinion About Artificial Intelligence?
The Hebrew Bible from Genesis through Judges is one long argument against concentrated power. The algorithm is the new king.
4 min read
What the Triskelion Means
There is a stone at Newgrange, carved before the pyramids. Three spiral arms, a hollow center. I have been living under that shape my whole working life without a name for it.
5 min read
Everything Is Running Under the Same Shape
I grew up behind a Walmart. One world ran on six crops. The other ran on ten thousand. It took me thirty years to find the through-line.
7 min read
Trust the One Who Walks With a Limp
Never trust a leader who doesn't walk with a limp. The wound is the credential. Not despite. Because.
7 min read