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I’m gonna start strong and spend the rest of my time unpacking things. To be upfront this is a letter I am writing to myself first, and anyone who cares to listen next. If you choose to stay, I hope you find some thoughts and maybe some practical help in what it means to escape…

In a world where there is no creator, how is anyone accountable for their actions? We are the product of intense and ancient biological codes programmed through meaningless impulses and development. How can anyone be liable for their actions? How was the Holocaust evil or the mass shootings in the US considered wrong? If nature…

Wanted to say something important to me that might help you today with all the change you are experiencing. It’s going to be a little long, but bare with me if you have the time, I think this is worth sharing. Emotion isn’t an easy thing. Today, as I was sitting at a Chick-fil-A in…

Can God be referred to as a woman? Is God both a father and a mother figure? Will gender be neutral in Heaven? If no, what is its point on earth? If yes, what is its point heaven? How would you define sexual misconduct…without external references? Can you commit a sexual sin with your spouse…

Everywhere I go in Christian circles I fell like these is group-think. Who can inspire the biggest “mmm.” It’s like a competition, causing many to laugh and not enough to feel sick. Somehow, I tend to long for the culture of the secular. Not because Jesus is not there, but because of its rawness and…

Anyone who knows me understands my unabashed transfixation with the art of storytelling. From books to art to cinema, I find people’s various expressions of life to be a tender message of from a heart. For a good story to be told, there is obviously more than just a few simple components. Large words and…

Something interesting I once thought about was that fear is an incentive; a prerogative for the daring. Without it, we aren’t driven by an alternative–a future crippled by our inhibition to act. In this vein of thought I began to see fear as a good thing, an unusual mannerism of our humanity which offers us…

Today, I felt confronted by the pangs of ill timed and cringingly insensitive loved ones. I had forgotten how intoxicating the silence felt in a car full of sympathetic people who don’t know what to say. Grief is one of the few situations in life where it is no less uncomfortable to say anything or…

Let me paint a different picture from what many of my colleagues, contemporaries, and even elders are saying. Tradition is not a sin.There is nowhere in the Bible nor near equivalent source of knowledge that points to anything otherwise being true. The lure of the present generation is reform–to make new, to adapt, and to…

I have been thinking a lot about myself recently. What causes me to sin. What wrong things am I believing which continually drive a wedge between myself and God and why do I keep on doing them when I know they are wrong? Although there are many complications we can bring to this question, the…