Art

Theological Puberty

Theology hijacks God tortures everyone through endless negotiations declines ransom and kills Him. Let's riot! Torch the brail libraries...

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...

That Road

That road through the country unspooling under a dark mountain massages my shins like wine. Cinnamoned cliffs protest my salt and pepper...

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...

Hunt

When summer's slumber gives way to a first prick of autumn breeze, I'm always carried to the hunt— The click of shotguns and earthy smell...

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...

Cathedral

Liquid stone hurls trees and thoughts of fire upwards through glass of storied power. Like the wound in Messiah's hand, the rose window...

Is the Cross the Right Symbol for the Church?

When I was taught as a child how to share my faith, the story went like this: “We’re all sinners, and sin brings death and separation...

On the Brain Hemisphere that Loves Music

Whatever it is that we call “spirituality” has to go through the brain, the three pound organ under our skulls that has roughly 100...