Today marks the one-year anniversary of the single worst day of my life – the day we had to say goodbye to my mom. I’ve really struggled over the past year with not only her...
Deconstructionists Journal
More than half of my ideas for blog posts or podcast topics come from conversations with friends and colleagues. There’s always some interesting thread I can pull that I can’t stop thinking about that usually...
God doesn’t exist. Prove it. I can’t. God DOES exist. Prove it. I can’t. I’ve never been a huge fan of absolutes. It puts us in positions we can’t really defend by conventional means. You...
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...