What love means

Love means fighting the temptation to hate. It means I pray for Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. It means I lay down my perceived rights and privileges for the sake of others. Love is understanding that other people are not my enemies – my fight is against unseen forces and powers. It is observing that […]

Forgive me

Nobody likes to forgive. Few people like to even talk about it. But because I think it’s always relevant for each of us individually and is now even more relevant for our society collectively, I want to broach the subject. It’s a painful topic. People hurt us frequently, be it emotionally, physically, or both. We […]

The future of the Church

It’s no secret that the Church is a mess. It has been from the beginning. The New Testament is largely composed of letters Paul wrote to churches addressing several problems they were experiencing. Anyone who has been a member of an organization knows they are difficult to maintain: people disagree with each other often. There’s […]

The ecstasy of falling in love

I’ve been reminded of what it’s like to fall in love, which is weird since I was a hopeless wannabe romantic for much of my early adulthood. It’s funny how you can forget for a variety of reasons without even realizing it, whether you’re married or single. The delight of flirtation given and returned; the […]

Sex and marriage aren’t the answers

I couldn’t tell you why, but starting around the age of eight, the thing I wanted most in the world was to be married. I became one of those brooding teenagers who wrote poems, overly dramatic letters to girls I pine for, and identified with every 90s rock song about love or broken hearts or […]

Rebel flags and same-sex marriage

American society has had an eventful few weeks regarding cultural debates and decisions, to put it mildly. A heinous act of evil that resulted in the tragic loss of life in Charleston, South Carolina has led us to question some of the vestiges of our past – namely, the continued flying of the battle flag […]

When Christianity is wrong and dead

Church died when I was 23. I don’t talk much about that time because I made some bad, selfish decisions that I’m not proud of which hurt people. Those decisions were preceded by some tough times in a dry spiritual wasteland that ended with my realization that Church was dead to me. I was raised […]