Tag Faith

The Basic Instincts

This reflection explores fight, flight, and freeze through the lens of formation—and wonders whether Face offers another possibility: remaining present long enough for what we encounter now to become part of what forms us next.

Charity: Grace Outsourced?

This reflection explores the tension between charity and grace through the parable of the wheat and weeds, asking what happens when generosity travels elsewhere while the harm we participate in remains untouched.

The Grace of “Perhaps”

This reflection explores why one small word keeps appearing in my writing and how perhaps became a practice of humility—creating space between memory and reality,
recognition and understanding, wonder and wisdom.

Coherence Is Hard

This reflection begins with preparing to serve as lector and unfolds into a meditation on Romans 7, why coherence is so difficult, and how God's grace through Jesus Christ restores our participation in the life we were created for.

Life Arrives First

This reflection explores how humans carry experiences larger than language. Through stories, traditions, memories, and meaning-making, we attempt to preserve life's interruptions long enough for them to reach another person.

Who Holds the Holder?

This reflection explores the hidden emotional cost of stewardship, the drift from care into self-protection, and the human need for replenishment beneath every role of power.

Spirit and System

This reflection explores the tension between spirit and system, spark and cover. Through history, illness, corporate life, oral transmission, and seminary formation.

Something Felt Familiar

At first, it felt like different communities with different problems.
But the longer I sat with it, the more it started to feel like something I had seen before.

WWJB: Who Would Jesus Be

What if the deeper question of faith isn’t what Jesus would do, but who he would be?
A reflection on formation, presence, and becoming human before acting faithfully.