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.
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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.
The Shape of Becoming Human
How a conversation with my mom, Paul's words, and one Tamil word unexpectedly became a reflection on formation, re-formation, and the enduring shape of becoming human.
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.
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.
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 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.
The Years I Tried to Remain Human
Modern systems measure intelligence, productivity, and adaptability. But what measures the degree to which a person remains human through pressure, performance, and change?
From Dominion to Communion
This reflection explores dominion, communion, stewardship, and the tension between control and relationship — from the garden in Genesis to the living presence embodied through Christ.