This past year has been exhausting. I think regardless of where you fall on the political or religious spectrum – it’s been absolutely soul-suckingly exhausting. It almost feels as if 2020 was like...
Growing Up Nerdy For as long as I can remember I’ve been obsessed with the mysteries of outer space. I can recall spending hours in the library looking up information about how stars were born,...
Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into ideological teams that fight each other as though the fate of the world depended on our side winning each battle. It blinds us to the fact that...
I always feared grief or trauma. Thought they would knock me off my high wire and I would have to spend an age mending broken bones before becoming brave enough to climb back up to...
So often we look back at history and think how absurd an event was – how something like that could never happen again – how we’re far too evolved to allow for…
Imagine for a second that you’re a parent (perhaps you are one). Now imagine living in a country where conditions are so dangerous that both you and your child (or children) are put at risk…
I’m going to start by assuming that we’ve all heard this phrase at least once in our lives. It is generally understood to mean that not everyone has the same idea about what is attractive…
“I distrust those people who knew so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.” – Susan B. Anthony “There is one road to certainty –…
Perhaps it’s due to the fact that I wasn’t born and raised within Evangelical/Charismatic Christianity. Maybe it’s because I have a tough time turning off the skeptical filter through which I tend to...
Life is interesting. It is predictable, and yet unexpected. Sometimes change is subtle, and when you were heading north, the road veered west. Sometimes change is blunt and cold like the feeling of walking outdoors…