For you, when you have no hope

No empty platitudes. I’m sick of them. Some cliched affirmations, because they sometimes help. I don’t know what it’s like to be you. I don’t know. What it’s like. To be you. I do know what it’s like to be me. Maybe. I know what it’s like to ask yourself, “What’s the point of going […]

Loneliness and despair

I confess: sometimes I feel like punching Joel Osteen right in the face. It’s not personal. I kind of like the dude despite myself, sincere theological differences and personal style aside. But my angst has to do with those theological differences and that incessant smiling. Osteen’s is a Christian theology of prosperity (more or less) […]