The Bosque del Apache is a National Wildlife Refuge two hours south of the church I serve in Santa Fe. Established in 1939 by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the 57,000-acre […]
When we returned to in-person worship after being shut down for the pandemic, I experienced a spiritual crisis. Church didn’t feel like it used to. I was disappointed in myself […]
Mostly, I experience the world as making sense. The circumstances of life are complicated and they are often heartbreaking. But they can be understood, explained, boiled down to inputs and […]
The Zulu word for God is Nkulunkulu, which roughly translates to “big-big.” Though I’ve known this word my whole life, until recently, I’ve never stopped long enough to recognize the […]
The big fish gets all the glory, but the most powerful characters in the book of Jonah are the sailors who thought they were welcoming just another passenger onto their […]
I have a friend who can tell you the exact moment he stopped believing. He was ten years old when he realized that the Bible stories he was being taught […]
I love the liberal arts. I don’t love the way parents tell their children not to major in philosophy or English or history because “they won’t be able to get […]
Peter claimed he was ready for death. Jesus called his bluff. When the hour came, Peter ran and hid. Maybe Peter should’ve said, “Lord I wanna be ready to go […]
One of my friends, Pastor Eric Elnes, says he is building the “new Jerusalem” in the metaverse. Most of my friends prefer the shopping aspects of hybrid worship more than […]
