Same Sheep, Less Wool
This reflection begins with a shave nearly ten years in the making and follows what fell away into questions of survival, remembering, vocation, and coherence.
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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 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.
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.
The Greener Grass
This reflection explores distance, disappointment, participation, and the loneliness that emerges when we forget how to belong to imperfect places.
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.
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?
Honor Thy Father and Mother
For years, I believed honoring my parents meant becoming a success story worthy of their sacrifices.
Years later, I find myself asking a different question: What remains?
The Audience Arrives Early
This reflection explores the hidden curriculum of the platform age and asks a deeper question: not what children are creating, but what is creating the children.