Not every post that mentions God is Christian. Not every post that uses familiar vocabulary is rooted in a true foundation. I’m not saying this to be divisive. I’m saying this the way you warn someone you love – with urgency, because the stakes are real and not everyone can see the car coming yet. Let’s talk about what’s actually there. And what isn’t.
Tag Archives: Christian faith
When Grief Compounds: Layers, Love, and the Family Left Behind
A reader asked if I would write more about grief. What unfolded over the course of our private exchanges was one of the most layered grief stories I have encountered – not because her experience is unusual, but because it is far more common than anyone talks about. This post is for her. And I suspect it is for more of you than any one of us might realize.
Science and Spirituality | Body and Mind: Let the Tide Come In
Most of us were only ever taught to manage things. To perform okay. To say “I’m fine” on autopilot until we actually believed it, or at least stopped questioning it. But the body keeps an honest record of everything our mouths agreed to leave behind…
The psychological and the spiritual aren’t competing systems. Together they create a full circuit, either feeding or starving us. The longest-process things on the list of human emotions aren’t longer because they’re more powerful. They’re longer because someone kept interrupting the process.
Eventually, we have to allow the tide to come in.
The Fourth Cup | Daily Bread
Someone told me to look up the fourth cup. So I did. What I found locked into place something I had already sensed was true – that there is a literal thread running from the upper room straight to the cross, held together by a cup Jesus deliberately did not drink. This is not symbolism. This is the most purposeful love story ever told.
Sunday Sessions | The Book, the Cocoon, and Learning to Hold Intensity Without the Edge (A Personal Sunday Reckoning)
Yesterday morning – again – I read an argument on X before coffee. We know better, but we don’t always do better. In it, two people certain they were the villain-identifiers of history. Both missed the point entirely. I thought about how Scripture named what I was looking at a long time ago, and, inspired, I closed the app, chuckled, and proceeded to gut and rearrange my entire bedroom. What I built instead reminded of something, and changed something. This is that story.
What the Desert Kept: The Unbound Word | Passing the Scroll
These aren’t questions that destabilize Scripture. What they destabilize is a shallow relationship with Scripture. A faith that can’t survive honest examination probably needed, and still needs, to be examined.
What the Desert Kept: The Unbound Word | Where the Thread Held
The Dead Sea Scrolls put real pressure on things I thought I understood — canon, transmission, messianic expectation. But pressure is not the same as rupture. A thread under tension is still a thread. This is where it held.
What the Desert Kept: The Unbound Word | What the Scrolls Complicate
The Dead Sea Scrolls don’t undermine the faith. They complicate the comfortable version of it — and that’s not the same thing. Canon fluidity, textual variants, messianic plurality: none of these are hidden, none are invented, and none of them get to stay safely unexamined. Part 3 of What the Desert Kept: The Unbound Word.
What the Desert Kept: The Unbound Word | The Discovery
In 1947, a young Bedouin shepherd threw a rock into a cave near the Dead Sea and heard something break. What was inside those clay jars would become the most significant manuscript discovery in modern history — and would take decades of scholarly struggle, controversy, and one very persistent librarian to finally reach the rest of the world. This is Part One of What the Desert Kept: The Unbound Word, a five-part deep dive into the Dead Sea Scrolls — their discovery, their contents, the community that preserved them, and the Scriptural threads that held across nearly two thousand years of silence.
The Virtue of Temperance: A Path to Balance and Freedom
Temperance is one of the oldest virtues known to humanity, and it remains as relevant today as it was in ancient times. Historically, temperance has been associated with combating the sin of gluttony—not just in terms of physical indulgence, but also in how we allow ourselves to be consumed by excessive desires or passions. MoreContinueContinue reading “The Virtue of Temperance: A Path to Balance and Freedom”
Twin Tree Project 