The Author’s Perspective

  • Verse & Vision | June 30, 2026

    I sat down this morning to write about someone else’s hypocrisy. I’m ending the post writing about my own instead, because Luke 6:27 wouldn’t let me get away with the version I wanted to write. This isn’t a takedown. It’s a mirror.

  • Authenticity Unveiled | The Book They Were Always Supposed to Read

    I was raised learning the Bible. But it was in adulthood, when I began going back through the literary canon on my own terms, that I understood something no one had ever quite said plainly to me: every great work of Western literature is a shadow of the Scriptures. The Bible is not a religious…

  • Podcast Episode: Authenticity Unveiled | The Empire Never Ended

    Pip: Twin Tree Project has always been the kind of space where scripture and the interior life share a table — so when catacosmosis decides to widen that table, it’s worth paying attention to what just pulled up a chair. Mara: This episode follows one substantial piece — a post that moves from personal spiritual…

  • Authenticity Unveiled | The Liberal Blindspot

    There is a particular kind of conversation that never goes anywhere. You raise a concern, offer a counterpoint, or simply ask a question — and the response you receive has nothing to do with what you actually said. The temperature drops. Suddenly you are not engaging with an idea. You are being assessed as a…

  • Look Again | Series Premiere

    Creation has been preaching the whole time. We just stopped attending the sermon. This is an invitation to lift your eyes from the crisis long enough to see what has been surrounding you all along — not as an escape from the hard thing, but as a reorientation within it.

  • Dear Christians… | The World Found the Door — They Just Don’t Know Whose House It Is

    For years I did what the world told me to do when life felt uncertain. I talked to trees. I cloud gazed. I journaled. I looked for signs from the Universe and listened to my body and sat in the quiet waiting for something to tell me which way to go. And here is the…

  • The Room Where Israel Wasn’t | Prophecy Update

    The nations signed their memorandum and called it peace. Iran called it a victory. Hezbollah called it a great achievement. And the tiny nation at the center of all of it was largely absent from the table. I have been watching the news with one eye and my Bible with the other, and what I…

  • Unhooked: What God Is Actually Doing When He Teaches You to Let Go | The Author’s Perspective

    There is a particular kind of tired that doesn’t come from overwork. It is the exhaustion of holding on to something God has already released from His hand. What we typically call attachment, when it becomes disordered, is not love at all. It is fear wearing love’s clothing, and God, in His mercy, does not…

  • Authenticity Unveiled | The Law You Cannot Cheat

    There is a law woven into the substance of how God made the world, and it does not bend for anyone. Not for institutions. Not for governments. Not for the people who love you or the people who have hurt you. It operates in every place where human beings interact with one another and with…

  • Opinion | You Don’t Get to Hold America’s Birthday Hostage

    America’s 250th birthday belongs to every citizen, every veteran, every family who ever believed in this country — not to the political feelings of performers who built their careers on its freedoms. When you can’t show up for the birthday, it’s worth asking who the celebration was ever really about.

  • Verse & Vision | June 1, 2026

    This is the fourth time in five days that the verse of the day has been personal. Yet again it is beyond spot on for where I am, what I need. Because he can’t speak, I speak it out loud for him. That phrase is older in my spirit than I consciously realized – until…

  • The War That Was Already Written: Biblical Prophecy & The Current War in Iran, In a Nutshell

    The conversations have shifted from vague ‘signs of the times’ talk to naming chapters and verses and watching them align in real time. Here’s a plain-language look at what people are seeing – and why it matters.

  • Dear Christians… | Does This Look Like Faith to You?

    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.…

  • Geopolitics, The United States, What’s Actually Happening — And Why You Should Be Paying Attention

    Most people are still reading President Trump’s foreign policy through a lens that hasn’t been accurate for decades. What’s being attempted isn’t just a minor policy adjustment; it’s a fundamental restructuring of how America positions itself in the global order. Whether it succeeds or fails, every American should understand what’s at stake. As believers, we…

  • Sunday Sessions | You’re Not Overthinking: Discernment, Pattern Recognition, and the Mantle You Carry

    The world has a word for people who see too much. Overthinker. Anxious. Too sensitive. But somewhere along the way, a lot of us learned to second-guess the very thing God was sharpening in us. The “problem” is pattern recognition, and it’s only a problem for people who don’t have any skill in it. Discernment…

  • Did You Know? | The Credibility of the Bible

    The Bible is sixty-six books written by forty different people over fifteen hundred years. Archaeologists have used it to uncover civilizations scholars insisted never existed. Over three hundred prophecies described one specific person centuries before he arrived – and then Jesus fulfilled all of them. The witnesses who saw him die and come back didn’t…

  • Authenticity Unveiled | Walking in Integrity: Why You Were Called to Stand Out

    You were never meant to fit in. You were meant to stand out — so others would know it’s possible to do the same. But the path there is quieter than you might expect. It’s not about convincing anyone. It’s about walking with integrity until someone watching decides they can too.

  • Presence, Not Passage: The Hours We Don’t See | Daily Bread

    Everyone I know has said it at least once this year: “Where is the time going?” But I’ve been sitting with a different question lately. Not “where is the time going,” but “when did we stop paying attention to it?” Because I don’t think time is actually disappearing. I think we are.

  • The Map You Were Told to Ignore | The Author’s Perspective

    It was five o’clock this morning when I fell down a rabbit hole about a 7th-century Chinese prophecy text and ended up face to face with something I think the church is dangerously close to missing. The Tui Bei Tu has outlasted emperors, purges, and censorship for 1,400 years. So has scripture. That is not…

  • The Wrong Tragedy | A Newsletter Editorial

    Ruby and Laura died in their 80s on a mission trip. The article called it a tragedy. It wasn’t. I’ll tell you what a tragedy actually looks like.

  • The Survival Manual I Almost Overlooked | The Author’s Perspective

    I’ve been failing the test lately, with the weight of the world pressing down until it felt like water closing over my head. But God was determined to remind me of the survival manual He left us for times exactly like these. Through a stranger’s words on X, my mother’s “ghost,” and a chain of…

  • 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,…

  • When Your Faith Shakes | Daily Bread

    This is not a polished testimony with a tidy ending. This is what it actually looks like when the shaking is happening — in real time, in a real life, with a real God who is not confused even when I am. I had thought my faith was at the strongest it had ever been.…

  • The Stone Cut Without Hands: Daniel 2, the Strait of Hormuz, and What I Believe We Are Watching

    When news broke that the Strait of Hormuz had reopened, my first response was not political. It was spiritual. In this post I walk through Daniel 2 — the dream of a statue, four Gentile kingdoms, and a stone cut without human hands — and connect it to what I believe we are watching unfold…

  • Patterns, Cycles, and Ancient Warnings: Exploring the Work of Jonathan Cahn

    There was a sycamore tree at the corner of Ground Zero. On September 11, 2001, it was struck by debris from the falling towers and destroyed. The stump was kept. You can look it up, see the photographs, and visit the location. It happened whether anyone was looking for it or not. That is one…