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April 2020

April 10, 2020

Spikenard (A Poem About Impulsive Love)

She was not manic This time but perfectly Lucid and yet burning With the heart...

April 07, 2020

Two Poems About The Wedding Feast

I. The Party No One Has Time For Heaven is the party no one has...

April 06, 2020

Whip Of Cords (A Poem About Divine Rage)

When Jesus sat Twisting his whip of cords Together, how hard Did he bite down...

April 05, 2020

My Shed (A Poem About Becoming A Man Again)

I practiced Zen in my shed today — At first I was only looking for...

April 04, 2020

The Space Between The Notes (A Poem About Slowing Down)

On the night that Ellis Marsalis died, You reminded me that Music is the space...

April 03, 2020

Why We Need A Sangha

Sangha is a Sanskrit word whose meaning is similar to ekklesia in Greek, the word...

April 02, 2020

Video Game (A Poem About Still Being In Middle School)

[Note: I am doing well and feeling calm, because I write intense poetry like this...

March 2020

March 31, 2020

The Battle For Eucharist

There was a scandal in early Methodism about Eucharist at some point. I don't have...

March 30, 2020

Zen and God’s Grace

One consistent part of my spiritual journey for the past twenty years has been my...

March 27, 2020

Please Donate To Support Ugandan LGBTI Community!

Dear blog followers, I received the following emergency appeal from the director of the Universal...

March 26, 2020

Excalibur (A Song About Defeating Satan)

For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it...

March 25, 2020

Hey Teachers, Please Slow Down

Hey teachers, first of all thank you so much. You have the most unappreciated job...

March 24, 2020

Billionaires (A Poem About American Christianity)

What’s supposed to happen now Is the government gives a billion more dollars To the...

March 22, 2020

The Ringbearers (A Poem About You)

The Ringbearers [For John Guyton] The ringbearers are the saviors of humanity; There was one...

March 18, 2020

Attune and Contain: Two Counseling Concepts To Survive The Apocalypse

Having been trained in attachment-based, psychodynamic counseling, I often have a bit of an inferiority...

March 10, 2020

Heavy Load (You Will Make Us Rise Again)

For a long time, I have dreamed of making music together with my best friend...

March 04, 2020

Release (A Poem)

Last year, I experienced one of the best things that's happened to me in ministry....

March 01, 2020

#Meh, A Poem About #Twitter

#Meh: A Poem About #Twitter I see your meh #Twitter And it mostly amuses me....

February 2020

February 28, 2020

Ashes (A Poem)

Ashes stick around forever; Whenever I use them to mark The not-quite-churched, I get them...

February 26, 2020

Can You Handle This Mardi Gras Unicorn?

Morgan the unicorn: The book My mother read to me Before anything happened. Are unicorns...

February 24, 2020

The Dark Side Of The Mystical Mind

Like so many others, my heart was ripped open this past weekend when I...

February 23, 2020

The Hidden Family (A Poem)

I don’t know how atypical we are, But I do know that we’re not from...

February 20, 2020

The Difference Between Happiness And Joy

What is the difference between happiness and joy? I remember this being a common evangelical...

February 08, 2020

Coronavirus, Saturday Night Live, And White Hysteria

Last weekend I was very uncomfortable during a Saturday Night Live sketch in which the...

February 07, 2020

If Shakira’s Tongue Causes Your Eye To Sin, Cut Your Eyeball Out

I wasn't going to post anything about the Superbowl halftime show. But people kept talking...

February 01, 2020

Resisting Harm Is What Holiness Is For

One way to talk about the tragic division in contemporary American Christianity is to say...

January 2020

January 24, 2020

Sin and the Rules of the Market

A couple of weeks ago, a Calvinist bro on Twitter was talking about how liberation...

January 20, 2020

Dr. King On Cynicism

I had a unique experience today that I've never had before. I found out that...

January 10, 2020

Becoming God’s Breath

I had a powerful mystical encounter today while I was talking with a friend and...

January 06, 2020

Iran, Mike Pompeo, and the Total Depravity of The Other

[Mike Pompeo: U.S. Department of State, Public Domain] Donald Trump may not be an evangelical...

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