God is greater than the god we construct. That alone unsettles the whole arrangement. Because what we tend to hold is not God, but an idea about God—shaped, framed, and made manageable. Something that fits within the boundaries of thought, doctrine, and language. But whatever God is, it doesn’t sit inside those boundaries. It exceeds…

The thing is, feelings show up and we assume they’re telling us something true about what’s happening. But that’s not always the case. The feeling is real—no question—but what gave rise to it may not be current, or even accurate. We don’t just feel—we interpret, and then we feel. Something happens, and almost instantly we…

Is language time-based—and therefore of little use in describing the metaphysical? That’s an idea l’m intrigued with. Language itself isn’t inherently bound to time, yet it is bound to sequence—and sequence is how we experience time. Words don’t arrive all at once; they unfold, one after another, building meaning step by step. Even when we…

We tend to look at the span of humanity and assume we have the whole story. We speak confidently of history, of civilizations, of the arc of development—as if the record were comprehensive. But when we slow down and stretch the timeline out, what do we really see. We have been told anatomically modern humans…

If we’re really going to understand the gospel, we have to start by admitting something simple but easy to overlook: most of what we think we know about Jesus has already been shaped for us. It’s been organized, interpreted, systematized. We’re not hearing a raw voice—we’re hearing a voice that has traveled through time, culture,…

Let me say this as plainly as I can, because this matters more than most people realize. When we approach Christianity today, we often assume we’re reading it straight—clean, direct, untouched—as if opening the New Testament places us shoulder to shoulder with Jesus in real time. But that’s not what’s happening. We are not reading…

Lately I’ve been reflecting again on something subtle but incredibly important—the “observer”. Most of us are familiar with mental chatter that runs almost constantly in the background of our lives. Thoughts interpreting events, judging situations, narrating our experiences, replaying conversations. The mind seems endlessly busy constructing and reconstructing our life story. But if you look…

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…

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…

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…