When examining art that confuses you, things to consider might include asking if you are the intended audience, or if this is a medium you understand. If it isn’t, perhaps ask people who do understand it to explain it to…

On a shelf over my desk, at eye level when I stand, are 8 reference books. They are mostly “How to write English good” books – a dictionary, a thesaurus, Strunk and White, Garner’s English Usage, etc. Because I preach…

Trying to figure out blogging outside of the WordPress ecosystem (where I’ve been for ~17 years) is so frustrating. (WordPress as a CMS is so bulky and unwieldy, and their “website builder” direction the last 5 years or so is…

“Would you hide an immigrant from ICE?” A friend asked me this the other day. My first thought was, “This is where we are, I guess.” When we read the Diary of Ann Frank in school, something pretty quickly jumped…

Tuesday night it hit 14 degrees, which is not unheard of here, but is also not what most days are like, thank God. I didn’t have any meetings planned until lunchtime, so I decided this would be an excellent day…

It’s getting cold as hell tonight, and so for supper I made my platonic ideal of chili, which means it tasted like the chili my mom made when I was young. We served it with Fritos, as God intended, and…

I’m preaching tonight at Safe Harbor Church in Clinton, MS – a church with a large LGBT contingent in their congregation. Tomorrow is the inauguration, and many of us, not just those in that community, are nervous. God of love,…

Some days the words just show up. You are practically vibrating as you sit down at the keyboard, coffee cup in hand. As your hands fly across the keyboard, your coffee grows cold, forgotten, as the words crawl across the…

It is a truism that we tend to overestimate what we can accomplish in a week, and underestimate what we can account in a year. I think we also discount what we have already done. I can, at any given…

My wife loves the videos on YouTube by [Emmymade](). They are a bit hard to describe, but a recurring routine is that Emmy will do taste-reacts, where she eats a food – usually something out of the ordinary, like [Hard…