Category Archives: Essays and Articles

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”

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”

In 1970, Merle Haggard released a song called “The Fightin’ Side of Me.” It had been 10 years since he’d been released from San Quentin Prison where he’d been an inmate when Johnny Cash played his famous concert. Haggard’s life had taken a turn since being released from prison, and in 1972 he received aContinue reading ““The Fightin’ Side of Me””

I recently wrote an article which I then took down, and I issued an apology. I want to be really clear why that was: I had worked to guess at the emotional experience of those really like Donald Trump. My sensemaking did not land with some folks, and they felt very upset. So in thisContinue reading “The Way of Trump and the Way of Jesus”

I recently published an article titled “Orange Man and the Juice.” Some of you may have read it here or maybe got an email in your inbox and read it there. Or maybe I decided to take it down before you even seen it. A thoughtful reader reached out to me a few hours afterContinue reading “Retraction; Apology”

Two Memories I’m fascinated by black light. When you turn off the everyday overhead light sources and turn on an ultraviolet, you see things you had know idea were there. In my senior year of college, I was recording a weekly podcast with my best friend. I was taking a theology class called Critical Issues,Continue reading “Black Light”

“There’s only two things that human beings are ever saying: please and thank you.” That line is from Marshall Rosenberg in one of his trainings on nonviolent communication. I have become very interested in his method, and I decided I would try to review here what I learned from reading his book. In this methodContinue reading “Nonviolent Communication”