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June 2025

June 12, 2025
This year for my annual backpacking trip, I am heading to Damascus, Virginia. This is...
June 04, 2025
Faith and LGBTQ Exploring the intersection of faith and LGBTQ identity reveals a tapestry of...

May 2025

May 30, 2025
In the "High Priestly Prayer", Jesus passionately pleads for unity among his believers, a sentiment...
May 28, 2025
Jesus, Justice, and the Fall of Christian Nationalism Recently, while preparing for an upcoming backpacking...
May 25, 2025
Sitting with Mystery In a post I wrote in 2023 around the spiritual practice of...
May 22, 2025
On May 19, Richard Rohr examined the influence of experience in his morning meditation. Rohr...
May 16, 2025
I have been reading through the Revised Common Lectionary recently and saw that the recent...
May 10, 2025
Recently, I taught a section in my World Religions Class around the idea of Religions...
May 08, 2025
Opening Reflection Mother's Day in the United States has origins in the 19th century, with...
May 02, 2025
Prayer: Conversations in Faith   I am sitting at my desk this afternoon, beginning my second...
May 01, 2025
Condemned to Freedom  Humans are bound to two certainties: freedom and death. Jean-Paul Sartre asserts...

April 2025

April 27, 2025
The significance of Jesus' death for first-century Jews and the Roman Empire cannot be overstated....
April 22, 2025
Pope Francis passed away this week. While I am no longer Catholic, my early formational...
April 19, 2025
Introduction  For my second post, I want to explore Wesely’s notions of inner and outer...
April 17, 2025
Echoes of Nietzche  We would first come aware of the notion of the death of...
April 11, 2025
Empathy Under Attack  Recently, I have been observing a peculiar thought process among some Christians,...
April 08, 2025
Names are important in all societies. They can tell us about a person’s job and...
April 05, 2025
Embracing Balance and Moderation   Being a therapist and at one point, a pastor, I get...
April 04, 2025
Remembering Martin Luther King   On April 4, 1968, Robert F. Kennedy announced the assassination of...

March 2025

March 30, 2025
Bultmann’s Mythology of Jesus As we move towards Easter 2025 and we celebrate the life...
March 27, 2025
An Exploration of Wesleyan Tradition and Theology  This week, in my analysis of Wesley’s Ordinances...
March 22, 2025
Lectio: Reading the Bible  Reading the bible or any sacred text is an act of...
March 22, 2025
Grace in Times of Stress As the world continues to spin and geopolitics continue to...
March 16, 2025
The Power of Prayer  I want to explore in my second post this week's prayer....
March 14, 2025
We are social creatures. We thrive when we are in community and community is one...
March 07, 2025
 I came across a quote last week that posited the idea that the historical Jesus...
March 02, 2025
Truth is Dead?!   In 2017, Time Magazine declared that “Truth is Dead”. This article confronted...
March 02, 2025
What can other faiths tell us about our own? This week, I want to reflect...

February 2025

February 21, 2025
How Shall We Go I read an interesting article the other day that pointed us...
February 18, 2025
Life was busy last week; I got my first seven-hour training week in for the...
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