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April 2020

April 10, 2020
She was not manic This time but perfectly Lucid and yet burning With the heart...
April 07, 2020
I. The Party No One Has Time For Heaven is the party no one has...
April 06, 2020
When Jesus sat Twisting his whip of cords Together, how hard Did he bite down...
April 05, 2020
I practiced Zen in my shed today — At first I was only looking for...
April 04, 2020
On the night that Ellis Marsalis died, You reminded me that Music is the space...
April 03, 2020
Sangha is a Sanskrit word whose meaning is similar to ekklesia in Greek, the word...
April 02, 2020
[Note: I am doing well and feeling calm, because I write intense poetry like this...

March 2020

March 31, 2020
There was a scandal in early Methodism about Eucharist at some point. I don't have...
March 30, 2020
One consistent part of my spiritual journey for the past twenty years has been my...
March 27, 2020
Dear blog followers, I received the following emergency appeal from the director of the Universal...
March 26, 2020
For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it...
March 25, 2020
Hey teachers, first of all thank you so much. You have the most unappreciated job...
March 24, 2020
What’s supposed to happen now Is the government gives a billion more dollars To the...
March 22, 2020
The Ringbearers [For John Guyton] The ringbearers are the saviors of humanity; There was one...
March 18, 2020
Having been trained in attachment-based, psychodynamic counseling, I often have a bit of an inferiority...
March 10, 2020
For a long time, I have dreamed of making music together with my best friend...
March 04, 2020
Last year, I experienced one of the best things that's happened to me in ministry....
March 01, 2020
#Meh: A Poem About #Twitter I see your meh #Twitter And it mostly amuses me....

February 2020

February 28, 2020
Ashes stick around forever; Whenever I use them to mark The not-quite-churched, I get them...
February 26, 2020
Morgan the unicorn: The book My mother read to me Before anything happened. Are unicorns...
February 24, 2020
  Like so many others, my heart was ripped open this past weekend when I...
February 23, 2020
I don’t know how atypical we are, But I do know that we’re not from...
February 20, 2020
What is the difference between happiness and joy? I remember this being a common evangelical...
February 08, 2020
Last weekend I was very uncomfortable during a Saturday Night Live sketch in which the...
February 07, 2020
I wasn't going to post anything about the Superbowl halftime show. But people kept talking...
February 01, 2020
One way to talk about the tragic division in contemporary American Christianity is to say...

January 2020

January 24, 2020
A couple of weeks ago, a Calvinist bro on Twitter was talking about how liberation...
January 20, 2020
I had a unique experience today that I've never had before. I found out that...
January 10, 2020
I had a powerful mystical encounter today while I was talking with a friend and...
January 06, 2020
[Mike Pompeo: U.S. Department of State, Public Domain] Donald Trump may not be an evangelical...
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