Writings

“A man who disbelieved the Christian story as fact but continually fed on it as myth would, perhaps, be more spiritually alive than one who assented and did not think much about it.” - C.S.

“Pray, then, in this way…” - Jesus, Matthew 6 ••••• Last month I wrote about how one of the reasons people can drift away from church isn’t always because of harm done, but disenchantment with what is being taught and the sub-par fruits that stated and li…

“History has brought us to the point where the Christian message is thought to be essentially concerned only with how to deal with sin: with wrongdoing or wrong-being and its effects.

“So teach us to count our days that we may gain a wise heart.” - Psalm 90:12 ••••• Maybe it’s because I’m rapidly approaching 40 or just have more awareness than I used to, but life’s clock sounds as if it is ticking louder.

"Stories –frankly, human stories are always about one thing– death.

“Here is where the role of imagination becomes so important: by sharing his self-certainty with us, God enables us to imagine a truth beyond our ability to know.” - Garrett Green, Imagining Theology ••••• A friend recently observed my writings have “taken…

“Have there ever been people in history who in their time, like us, had so little ground under their feet, people to whom every possible alternative open to them at the time appeared equally unbearable, senseless, and contrary to life?”

"Everywhere and always, when human beings either cannot or dare not take their anger out on the thing that has caused it, they unconsciously search for substitutes, and more often than not they find them." - René Girard, The One by Whom Scandal Comes •••••

Hi friends, In annual tradition, I’m sharing the books I read this year with you.

Back in June, Christianity Today published this article about ICE agents going after persecuted Christians who had fled to the United States.

"Character does matter.

Abundance By Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson.

There are moments when the news is just as revealing as it is concerning.

Like many American kids raised evangelical at the turn of the century, my high school years came with warnings that the “post-truth world” was coming.

A year ago, I published a piece called The end of church authority.

There were warnings for months that a second Trump Administration was going to be this way.

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It feels like I posted last year’s reading list just a few months ago.

Well, here we are.

Ministers of Propaganda: Truth, Power, and the Ideology of the Religious Right By Scott M.