The empty tomb has never been especially important or interesting to me. I know that sounds quite heretical as the empty tomb has played such an enormous role in mainstream American evangelical apologetics. How can I, as someone who affirms the resurrection of Jesus, be ambivalent about the empty tomb? The empty tomb to me… Continue reading What of the Empty Tomb?
Think Before You Prompt
What if you woke up to find your work had been cloned by robots? I mean, as a blogger, I’ve just come to accept that LLMs are reading the entire internet including these articles to feed their machines without paying me. I’m not one of those coin-operated bloggers, all my stuff is here for the… Continue reading Think Before You Prompt
For the Everyman, Blessed Sisyphus
I’ve had quite a year. It feels to me at times like the Universe has its laser pointer upon expiration. My cousin suffered the death of her significant other and her then mother, my aunt. My cat developed cancer and began wasting away over a period of weeks. Several of our close friends have died… Continue reading For the Everyman, Blessed Sisyphus
I Don’t Want to Hear It
Every year during Pride month we hear the same idiotic arguments from conservatives against Pride and LGBTQ+ siblings. Conservatives like to say that Pride is about promoting people’s sex lives. I always think it’s weird how obsessed some conservatives are with sex and genitalia, but the main problem here is that sexual orientation is not… Continue reading I Don’t Want to Hear It
Ritual Makes You Human
I left Christianity in my early twenties because the only anchor points I had to it were from the conservative and literalist tradition of Seventh Day Adventism. Once I saw that the SDA faith was inconsistent, manipulative and just plain wrong in many ways, I assumed that all Christianity was similarly counterfeit. But one day… Continue reading Ritual Makes You Human
The Trinity is Extrabiblical
Three Buddhist monks were watching a flag waving in the wind above their temple. One monk said, “be still and observe how the flag moves.” The second monk said, “be still and observe how the wind moves.” The third monk said, “it is neither the flag nor the wind that moves, but your mind.” Since… Continue reading The Trinity is Extrabiblical
Don’t Mistake This For Christianity
About half the time I share that I’m a Christian with someone for the first time, I must battle a lot of baked in assumptions that stem from a uniquely North American experience of religion. Christianity is somehow connected with self-centered isolationism, disrespect for science and logic, and rejection of modernity. I can remember my… Continue reading Don’t Mistake This For Christianity
The Faithfulness of Christ
Are you saved by faith in Jesus Christ, or are you saved through the faith of Jesus Christ? Or are you saved by the Christ faith, you know, The Way? What do we mean by faith or belief? Is it trust in something? Is it assent to a particular idea? Is it loyalty? Does it… Continue reading The Faithfulness of Christ
Studio of Faith
Last year, the Denver Art Museum featured an incredibly moving exhibition by Kent Monkman, titled, History is Painted by the Victors. Monkman’s work is at once haunting, indelible, illuminating and yet very humorous. He explores themes of gender expression, injustice and climate change using imagery that taps into our many shared associations with Romantic imagery.… Continue reading Studio of Faith
The Meta-Historical Fall
Mythology has been very important to me since my twenties when I discovered the works of Joseph Campbell. Engaging with myth and mythic structure changed the way I think about the meaning of life, and it changed the way I create my own forms of art. It’s not surprising then that one of the most… Continue reading The Meta-Historical Fall