

The Poison of Purity Culture
The post below is an excerpt from Sex With God: Meditations on the sacred nature of sex in a post-purity-culture world. Sexual ethics for...
Mar 17, 2021
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Day 30: A Great Cloud of Witnesses
This entry comes from Sleeper, Awake: 40 days of companionship for the deconstruction process. While the faith journey often begins in...
Mar 11, 2021
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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