Here are things I still hear from people who oughta know better: people who like to wave the banner of inclusivity and consider themselves to
Category: Observations

Losing My Religion
On February 19th, I preached my last sermon, at my last church, after twenty years of preaching in four different churches in three states. Leading

Save the Funerals!
“I don’t want a damn funeral. Just throw a party. Go to a pub. Toss my ashes in a lake (the ocean, the mountains, on a ski slope, at the cabin).”

Pumpkins Past Their Prime
“Trauma doesn’t have to speak for us to see it is present. It announces itself in abandoned decorations from another season. It whispers through the holes of broken toys. It screams from stickers slapped on doors.”

What did I do in 2022?
Making a New Year’s Resolution lost its appeal for me years ago. For me, resolutions feel confining but imagining feels freeing. In the second half

Heaven Imaged
I wrote this in response to someone asking me what I think happens when we die. Certain pieces of this image are in fact based