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Christianity: In the beginning
If we’re going to understand Christianity in any meaningful way, we have to resist the temptation to start where most people do—with doctrines, creeds, or even the New Testament itself. That’s already downstream. By that point, the river has picked up sediment from multiple landscapes. To understand the water, you have to go back to…
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Existential Freedom (part II)
Let’s take the structure we’ve already laid out previously —freedom under conditions of real ignorance—add an eternal component and follow it to its logical edge, and the tension becomes unavoidable. We are making choices without full knowledge. Not partially informed in a minor sense, but fundamentally limited. We do not see the total field of…
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Language and the Divine
Good morning. You start to realize pretty quickly that when we talk about Source—about the Divine—we’re using a tool that was never designed for the job. Language works by carving up reality into pieces: this and that, subject and object, something over here being described by someone over there. It’s incredibly useful for navigating the…
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The good, the bad, and the ugly
There comes a point in certain conversations where refinement starts to look like avoidance. Words get polished, distinctions get sharpened, metaphors get swapped out for cleaner ones—and yet the central tension remains, quietly waiting. This is one of those points. We began with a question that seems simple enough: if the Divine is truly the…
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Total honesty? Or wisdom
There’s something I’ve sat with for some time. We hear two ideas a lot: “Say less—there’s wisdom in few words.” And then, “Be completely honest.” At first glance, those two don’t exactly play nice together. Because if words carry weight—and they do—then honesty isn’t just about what you say. It’s about when, how, and whether…
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Social connections
We live in a world where a person can find almost anything they are looking for. Information is not scarce. Access is not the issue. The real limitation is understanding. And interestingly enough, understanding and interest are locked in a quiet dependency loop. No interest, no pursuit. No understanding, no interest. So we circle—only moving…
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The Voice in My Head… and the One Listening to It
I’ve noticed something curious about my mind and likely yours. Actually, “curious” might be a polite way of saying relentless. There’s this running commentary going on up there almost all the time. A kind of internal talk show that never seems to go off the air. It replays old conversations, invents new arguments, worries about…
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Existential Freedom
There is a quiet assumption most people live with—that freedom is a gift, a kind of open field where we move, choose, and become. But when you look more closely, freedom is not gentle. It does not arrive with clarity or instruction manual. It arrives as a demand. You must choose, constantly and without pause,…
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Another touch and go with trust
Good morning. I’ve been thinking about something lately that, at first glance, sounds simple—almost naïve—but the more I sit with it, the more depth it seems to reveal. The idea is this: surrendering to the belief that something greater is involved in the outcome. I realize the word surrender can trigger reactions. It sounds passive,…
