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I like getting compliments on growing a beard. Mostly this is because beard creation is something I had very little to do with. All I did to grow a lustrous pelt of facial hair was stop shaving. That’s it. I didn’t rub Rogaine all over my face with a paint roller, drink Gatorade laced with […]
June 15, 2017
I frequently get into trouble when I wade into the fraught waters of church and gender and start theorizing a little bit. But I can’t help it. I love theories, I love knotty problems, and (it seems) I don’t always mind a bit of trouble here and there. So here goes a little experiment. I’m […]
October 13, 2015
I like meditating on details in the familiar stories of Scripture. Take this one, for example, in the story of Moses and the burning bush. The story opens with Moses, erstwhile prince of Egypt and fugitive murderer, living in contentment as an exile in the land of Midian. Moses is tending the sheep of his father-in-law […]
September 28, 2015
Is there a better, more concise, broad-stroke sketch of Jesus than Mark 1:42-44? Jesus heals a man with leprosy. Look at this bolded section, in context: And a leper came to him, imploring him, and kneeling said to him, “If you will, you can make me clean.” Moved with pity, he stretched out his hand and touched him and said […]
August 19, 2015
I am not scared to write that I am scared of death. I think about it. It comes up mostly when I cannot sleep and have been awake for too many hours in my dark room, alone, which has been most of my life as an insomniac. In these moments my mind has the opportunity […]
June 29, 2015
A brief reflection in light of Obergefell v. Hodges In Acts 21-26, Luke records the extended narrative of the Apostle Paul’s capture by the Jews in Jerusalem and their subsequent attempts to prosecute him and kill him. In summary, against the wishes of his peers and church members (one of whom prophesied his eventual capture), […]
February 10, 2015
**–originally written for publication on another platform. I’m not sure if it will ever run there, so I’m posting it here so that it can at least see the light of day. Also: I am radically unqualified to write on this topic. Dating advice on the Internet? Must be a day that ends in ‘y’! I would estimate that […]
November 25, 2014
Some while back, I remember a story about the Large Hadron Particle Collider that related the following concern: if two particles crashed into each other at near light -speed, would the resulting collision create a black hole that could tear the world apart? We have an answer. We need you, Lord Jesus. We are all at such great speed, and the […]
September 13, 2014
He’s so light, thought the old man. This stray thought amused him. He had seen many babies in his life, had even held more than his share, and he could never remember thinking such a thing before now. Yet there it was, as he accepted the child into his arms from his mother, this musing […]
April 17, 2014
He tapped his fingers on the sycamore branch, the rings on his fingers drumming a gentle rhythm that he could feel but not hear over the noise of the mob below. He breathed heavily from the exertion of climbing, work made more difficult by attempting to do it without drawing attention to himself. At first […]
The Casual Footballer 
June 26, 2014
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