Coherence is the original state. Everything else is drift.
This reflection explores how economic uncertainty became an awakening to the meaning of “our daily bread” — not simply as personal provision, but as communal Grace, revealing how Life within us participates in sustaining Life beyond us.
This reflection begins with a question from Matthew 15: Blind to what? Following the Pharisees, a Canaanite woman, and the older truth of Genesis, it wonders what happens when the distinctions that came later become more visible than the image of God that came first.
This reflection began as a struggle to pray. It became a search for the One I had been thanking all along. Through family, friends, strangers, and unexpected acts of kindness, perhaps grace has always been arriving with a human face.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This reflection explores the tension between spirit and system, spark and cover. Through history, illness, corporate life, oral transmission, and seminary formation.