The contrast of castle and empty room: Sleeper, Awake
My faith used to be like a castle full of sparkling treasure, a place I found beautiful and precious. Now it's the empty space of a...
Mar 2, 2021
Deconstruction Devotional Launching Soon!
My latest devotional is about to launch. It's titled Sleeper, Awake: 40 days of companionship for the deconstruction process. Most of it...
Feb 17, 2021
Permitting our spiritual structures to fall
The contemplation below comes from the devotional I'm currently developing. Stay tuned for details about when it will be launched!...
Jan 18, 2021
The only hope we have: people are inherently GOOD
As we prepared to offer a few words of hope to the Where True Love Is community via Facebook live on Wednesday, I thought about the...
Nov 6, 2020
Litany for our election day hangover
We ended our sabbatical yesterday, election day, which was a bit like waking up groggy and being punched in the face by a farting...
Nov 4, 2020
On Sabbatical
Since the beginning of the year I've felt the call of sabbatical. Change has simmered around the edges of my consciousness and I haven't...
Oct 8, 2020
A call for a new iconoclasm
(This piece originally appeared in The Presbyterian Outlook.) Icons are images that are meant to act as windows through which we look to...
Sep 29, 2020
The Bisexual Reflection of God
(The passage below is an excerpt from my Sex With God devotional.) The Hebrew Scriptures include an extraordinary love story between two...
Sep 23, 2020
On Trying to Wake Up
I've been thinking about Jesus' final hours in the garden when he said to the apostles who were with him: can you not stay awake with me...
Sep 22, 2020
Love is the Fulfilling of the Law
The following is an excerpt from the first Where True Love Is devotional. Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who...
Sep 9, 2020
