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The gospel appears, historically, less like a single message delivered in finished form and more like an amalgamation of beliefs, memories, experiences, interpretations, and ideas that gradually gathered around Jesus and the communities that followed him. What we now call “the gospel” was not initially a neatly packaged theological system. It emerged within a Jewish…

There’s something interesting hidden in the word theology itself. Literally, it means the study or discourse about God. And perhaps the word tells us something about the philosophical shift that took place over time. What may have begun as a relationship with the Divine—an experience of presence, mystery, encounter, and participation—gradually became something to be…

It is interesting to me how each of us packages the information we have about life. We don’t start with a blank page. (\Some say we do \- either way…\) We arrive in a particular family, culture, time, and place. Then life starts adding information. What our parents tell us. What we experience. What happens…

I’ve been thinking about love lately, and I wonder if we’ve made the category of love too small. We usually recognize love by how it feels. Love feels warm, comforting, accepting, intimate, safe. And certainly those things can be love. But if All-that-is is love, then what do we do with the parts of life…

For the sack of mental curiosity, think about life as a kind of Petri dish experience. We are placed into an environment and then we see what happens. The interesting part is that the environment itself may have a lot to do with the outcome. Put the same organism into different conditions and you can…

The Tower of Babel presents an intriguing problem when the narrative is read as a literal account rather than as an ancient theological story. Humanity is portrayed as unified, constructing a city and a tower “whose top” reaches toward heaven. The Divine then comes down to observe what humanity is doing and concludes that, because…

Give some thought to this idea: the ego may not create a false self so much as assemble a fragmented self from what happened to us. Experiences that were overwhelming, painful, or simply too complex to integrate can become compartmentalized. We learn to put certain memories, emotions, fears, and identities into separate rooms of the…

There’s an important connection here between meaning, perception, and neuroplasticity. We don’t simply experience an event and move on. We interpret it. We assign meaning to it, and that meaning becomes part of the lens through which future experiences are processed. In that sense, changing perception isn’t merely thinking differently—it can become a pathway toward…

There is an interesting convergence here. “Know thyself” can be understood not merely as an invitation to introspection, but as a theological axiom: remember who you are. If the self has become fragmented—(experiences, wounds, fears, beliefs, adaptations, and inherited patterns gathered into a constructed ego)—then salvation can be understood less as being rescued from an…

Dis-ease and dissatisfaction are interesting forces in human life. We tend to assume that if something makes us uncomfortable, something must be wrong. But perhaps discomfort isn’t always a problem. Sometimes it is the very thing that gets us moving. Hunger moves us toward food. Loneliness can move us toward relationship. Curiosity begins with the…