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Why I'm Applying to Seminary
I just did something I never, ever, in a billion years thought I would do. I finished my application to seminary. To some in my life,...
Jan 12, 202410 min read

A Road Trip Through Lent
I’ve been thinking a lot about the concept of pilgrimage lately. I love to travel and often do, even if it’s just a quick getaway from...
Feb 18, 20235 min read
Unsilencing That Night
Oh, how we cheat and rob This Westernized Christ Child Of love and family and divine entropy, As every December We dust off the nativity...
Jan 6, 20231 min read


Seatmate
I did not think when I climbed aboard The California Zephyr Train Number 6 In Sacramento, bound for Denver, That God would be my seat...
Dec 16, 20222 min read


Be the Stranger
Take yourself, all alone, to places Where nature and architecture Speak in different accents. Don’t ask the travel guide For a restaurant...
Dec 12, 20221 min read


Celebrate the Trivial Bullshit
Two weeks ago, I attended my first live pro wrestling event, WWE Extreme Rules at the Wells Fargo Center in my home city of Philadelphia....
Oct 23, 20228 min read


Making Dinner
It’s an ordinary meal with simple ingredients. A pork chop, some roasted veggies, and a honeycrisp apple with almond butter. The entire...
Aug 31, 20224 min read


Through the Valley
Before I dive into this, some disclaimers: I am not a member of the clergy, a spiritual leader, or anything like that. This is just a...
Jun 28, 20224 min read
Unholy Week: The Passion Reimagined as a Professional Wrestling Match
A camera drone shot shows a stadium full of people with a wrestling ring in the center. Two commentators' voices speak over the image....
Apr 9, 202217 min read
Passover, Lent, & Surviving on Manna
“On the day after the passover, on that very day, they ate the produce of the land, unleavened cakes and parched grain. The manna ceased...
Mar 25, 20223 min read
Cemetery Life
Cemeteries are for the living. At first it seems rather odd, Rolling green hills and concrete, Trees and bricks and marble, All used to...
Feb 3, 20222 min read
The Sound of My Own Voice
My mind lies to me in the sound of my own voice. But that’s not entirely true, is it? Because when I listen to a recording of myself...
Dec 21, 20212 min read
The Holy Spirit Smells Like Cigarettes
I don’t know what the Holy Spirit looks like. But here’s what I do know: The Holy Spirit smells like the lingering scent of Newport 100s...
Dec 18, 20212 min read
Electric Chairs and Radical Hope
If you show people who self-identify as Christian an image of an electric chair and ask them to describe the feelings it stirs up in...
Dec 18, 20213 min read
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