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.
Tag Formation
Marriage: The Reconciliation of Realities
A reflection on culture, formation, coherence, and why the work of becoming one matters long before children inherit the world we create.
The Battle of the Sexes: Everyone Loses
This reflection explores what nature reveals about complementary human powers, how formation teaches us to separate them, and why mature leadership learns to embody both.
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.
The Greener Grass
This reflection explores distance, disappointment, participation, and the loneliness that emerges when we forget how to belong to imperfect places.
The Shedding Season
This reflection explores the shedding season of life, where certainty gives way to understanding and inherited stories become more complete.
The Unreconciled Humanity
This reflection explores invisible sacrifice, inherited grief, the human ledger, and why humanity may need a Sabbath more than another solution.
Dandelion: Weed or Seed?
Most metaphors for formation are grand. This reflection explores why a simple dandelion may be one of nature's clearest teachers of transformation, responsibility, and release.
The Moral Distance of Distinct Vision
What if power corrupts not through malice, but through distance? An exploration of perception, formation, and the point beyond which people become abstractions.
Show Me Your Friends
Some lessons take decades to understand. What once sounded like simple advice now feels like an invitation to look beneath appearances and ask a deeper question: What is forming this?