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Sequoia
Crescent moon curtseys to the applause of the sun, and the dream that stood watch over the night sky of my pain at the coming of what it...
Dec 17, 20241 min read
The Irony of Presidents Swearing on the Bible
Whoever wins the presidential election, on January 20th the victor will take the oath of office with his or her hand on a book that often...
Oct 9, 20244 min read
Will AI Lead Us Back to God?
I've been nursing a pet theory lately as I've been pondering the significance of AI . I'll tell you the bottom line first, then explain...
Oct 7, 20242 min read
Whose Brain Misunderstands Itself, the Psychologist's or the Theologian's?
(This essay, a dialogue with evolutionary psychology, was my final paper for the Fall 2017 Harvard course "How Hidden Incentives Shape...
Oct 6, 202415 min read
Taking AI to Church
Our technological future needs spiritual wisdom from the past. In the Age of AI, as we enter new frontiers of what it means to be human,...
Sep 24, 20243 min read
Strip Mining the Soul
Sedimented stones build the mountain in pastels of white, pink, and clay tones, sandstone reds, black basalts— pairings and contrasts...
Sep 16, 20241 min read
Morning Walk
When I go it is grey outside. Shadows still merge with their source. Music is beat back into grasses and trees. I walk, barely. Life has...
Jul 30, 20241 min read
Dawn and Dusk Poems
Morning Hawk Brown feathers, smooth as frosting, conceal taut, predatory muscles. Bloodied wings sheath precisely as German knives in a...
Apr 30, 20242 min read
Charismatic or Contemplative? Both.
It was a Friday night at college, and my pals banged on the door. “Dude, we’re going to the party. Let’s go!” Something inside me...
Mar 12, 20243 min read
Theological Puberty
Theology hijacks God tortures everyone through endless negotiations declines ransom and kills Him. Let's riot! Torch the brail libraries...
Feb 18, 20241 min read
My Heart Became A Heart
On leaving Israel after three years working with pediatric heart patients Claude Monet, Impression, Sunrise, 1872 I was quietly counting...
Jan 2, 20242 min read
Winter Waters
At Land's End in San Francisco surging waves assault the shore as if wanting to overthrow the static ideas on our static land. Bucking...
Oct 7, 20232 min read
Why Aren’t Christians as Urgent as Elon Musk?
Like a bowlegged cowboy walking into Starbucks, both amused and repulsed by what he sees, Elon Musk strode into the headquarters of...
Sep 28, 20234 min read
A Theological Love Letter from the Future
This essay was awarded first prize in Harvard Divinity School's Bicentennial Essay Contest. The prompt was: What will the academic study...
Sep 28, 20231 min read
When Life Burst Out of Death
Ironically, in defense of biblical faith, some Christians denounce the Big Bang—a theory originally rejected by many in the scientific...
Sep 28, 20231 min read
Into Wind and Water: How American Pentecostalism Is Changing
Home for the summer after my first year at Harvard Divinity School, I enter the worship center of Calvary Temple Church in Concord,...
Sep 28, 20231 min read
Curry and Purdy: In God's Hands
The star athletes in whose hands we trust the ball with the game on the line see themselves as in God’s hands. That’s worth pondering....
Sep 23, 20234 min read
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