Healing our hearts

Healing our wounded hearts is a lot of fun, isn’t it? What’s often the most difficult at first is trying to find a way of seeing hope. Because when we’re broken, we’re broken. It kind of depends on how our hearts have been wounded. The specific kinds of trauma we endure. Because those traumas, those […]

Interstate love song

With apologies to Stone Temple Pilots for my title: I completed my annual pilgrimage to drop off then pick up my daughter at the Orlando International Airport a week ago so she could spend the holidays with her mom. The commutes provided ample opportunity for me to reflect on the ulcer-inducing horror adventure of driving […]

What a man wants

If you read the title to this and immediately started singing “What a Girl Wants” by Christina Aguilera, you and I are on the same page. I appreciate the feedback I received to my post about my experience with online dating, which ranged from the empathetic to the surprised. Yes, for average-ish men, online dating […]

We need to be known

I’m tickled that several people enjoyed (and unfortunately could relate to!) my last post about the struggles of online dating. It stinks! So why do I and so many others choose to put ourselves through such an ordeal? The obvious answer is because we hold out some amount of hope that we can find someone […]

The abject misery of online dating

Written in homage to Dave Berry Many of you have not had the privilege of participating in our society’s virtual version of Thunderdome, online dating. If this is you, fear not! I will share with you what this painful exercise in existential horror experience is like. First, some context, because what a person brings with […]

The Kingdom of God is inherently political

What is our primary role as Christians? “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit and teaching them to obey everything that I have commanded you.” (Matt 28:19-20, NRSV) The Great Commission implies our job is to mold […]

Staring back at the abyss: The need for depressed leaders

So much of America’s culture, bathed in capitalism as it is, is about selling ideas. Corporate advertisements depict smiling, laughing, jubilant people enjoying the newest product on sale, enticing us to spend our money so that, we, too, might be smiling, laughing, and jubilant. We are so oversaturated with this kind of messaging – be […]