Category Archives: Essays and Articles

This article was printed on paper and sent via snail mail to our mail-club subscribers in March. If you want to get fun mail with stories and other great stuff in your mailbox each month, click the red button! I have a terrible sense of direction. At 14, I was on a rabbit hunt. RabbitContinue reading “On Being Lost”

Introduction This essay looks at three figures from the 1940s, Strom Thurmond and Julius Waring. It examines both the culture and tradition of the south from this era and the stance of these two figures within it. Further, this essay will consider how white supremacist tactics have operated and evolved. Finally, it will argue aContinue reading “Culture and Tradition”

This piece touches on current, politically charged events. Many of my readers may disagree with me – that is fine. My purpose here is not mainly to convince. Rather, I enjoy writing, and I think it is of great importance to bear witness in real time the best we know how. So reader, now orContinue reading “Am I the Conservative Here?”

This piece will briefly overview the concept of re-enactments and then discuss how a concept of God could be understood in light of this phenomenon. It is often perplexing to watch those around us place themselves repeatedly back into the same circumstances which have wounded them. And when we have the insight, so watch ourselvesContinue reading “Faith as Re-Enactment”

I’m not sure where I got the idea that therapy was magical. I had never really seen a therapist before. If I had, I’d probably have given up that idea. As I went to school to become a therapist, the shine of that notion sort of began to wear off. But probably nothing wears itContinue reading “The Right Things”

One way of seeing things is that Jesus being crucified was a surprising event. That it was a real pity that the son of God should find himself rejected by the ones he came to. That this was a tragedy which could have been avoided if other, better people had been in charge when heContinue reading ““The Crowd Is Untruth””

This post was written by Jackson Locke. Jackson and I both chose communication studies as our major at Toccoa Falls College – me a few years earlier. Reading some of his writing brings back a lot of my own memories of similar “shifts” which happened during the college season of my life. Jackson was kindContinue reading “Changes Now”

I haven’t been a therapist for very long. In fact, I’m still in my internship. And this was written while my kiddo watched Bluey beside me. So there are your disclaimers. I had a thought recently: on a meta level therapy might be both more and less necessary than ever – depending on what isContinue reading “Do These Times Call for More or Less Therapy?”

Here is a bit of humor – it is satire. — || In a long lost manuscript, another version of the gospel of Matthew is recounted. This newly found document contains many important details the other ones leave out. || Jesus takes his place and begins to give the Sermon on the Mount. Huge crowdsContinue reading “The Long Lost Scripture”