Finding enchantment with God at the edge of religion
Discovering the limits of language while trading in certainty.
Writings
Latest posts
Centering in the Lord’s Prayer
Defining disenchantment and trying to pray as Jesus did.
Disenchantment with a wrathful God, and finding hope in Christ
The Kingdom of God is Good News. Why should we settle for less?
From dust to dust, we turn
Learning to count our days wisely in these times between the times.
Mourning, the making of history, and Tolkien’s eucatastrophe
Getting to know Nienna, an Unlikely Hero, on Tolkien Reading Day
Faith today and hope for tomorrow
Where I am with faith and church life in the year of our Lord 2026.
The power in loving our neighbors
Searching for ground beneath our feet and behaving responsibly in times of social crisis.
Atonement for our times: Scapegoating no more
Examining the resurgence of an ancient practice and exploring how to be whole in unwholesome times.
My 2025 Reads
It’s the time of year again! Here are the 49 books I read this year.
Understanding evangelical priorities
Why white evangelicals are often silent when the Trump Administration acts against their stated concerns.
They too shall pass
The evangelical men who wrecked my generation are beginning to die. What do we make of their legacies?
Abundance: A Review
A paradigm-shifting call to renew a politics of plenty, face up to the failures of liberal governance, and abandon the chosen scarcities that have deformed American life.
Surveying the new American Imperial Cult
The Religious Right’s bowing to MAGA, and trying to live with moral clarity in the face of widespread moral collapse.
Exploring the post-truth realm of white American evangelicalism
And learning how white evangelicals became the future they warned about.
Reimagining belonging in a post-evangelical age
How church monoculture failed—and how interdependence and Spirit-led belonging offer a better way forward.
Don’t choose to overwhelm yourself
We’ve been through a version of this before. We don’t need to reinvent the wheel.
Dr. Scott Coley: Ministers of Propaganda - Truth, Power, and the Ideology of the Religious Right
Why does the culture and rhetoric of American evangelicalism often feel so self-serving, authoritarian, and antichrist?
My 2024 Reads
42 books on the Christian faith, a bit of democracy and history, and fiction.
Mourning empire and energizing toward Christ
Asking not what we should do, but how to form ourselves into who we should become.
Ministers of Propaganda: A Review
Exposing the inner workings of the religious right’s propaganda—and how Christians can resist it.