Jun
Jun
Stumptown makes the best coffee.
Jun
Jun
Faith & Doubt
I wrote a guest blog post for my friend’s website. I’d love to hear your thoughts…
If you would have asked any doctor before 2007 what your appendix does, they would respond with, nothing. It serves no purpose. A remnant of the past. Perhaps an evolutionary glitch. That’s one of the reasons we are quick to remove them when they become infected. But in 2007, a team of scientists from Duke University discovered a fundamentally new idea about how the appendix works. Our appendices, as it turns out, are basically store houses for beneficial bacteria that help us “reboot” when other good bacteria dies off.
Before 2007, most doctors would swear with absolute certainty that your appendix is useless. Today, with that same certainty, they’ll tell you how beneficial it is.
Growing up in a faith community can feel similar. Religion can become a place where honest curiosity and confusion are not permitted. I’ve heard many stories of people experiencing real doubt and questions, only to be told by their pastors to stop thinking so much, to fall into place, and to keep quiet. Perhaps their pastor’s intentions were in the right place, but those actions have consequences… Keep Reading
May
Finishing lyrics.
May
For everyone who asks… No, my guitar does not have a mustache.
May
Where Earth & Sky Collide
Over the past few months I have been working on writing and recording a new collection of songs. In the midst of a move from Southern California to the Pacific Northwest, and after a particularly difficult year, I found myself processing a lot of things, learning to forget others, and finally figuring out some (hopefully)…
There’s an old Celtic saying that says that heaven and earth are only three feet apart, but there are a few thin places where that distance is even smaller. I’ve also heard stories of sherpa’s climbing Mount Everest, offering prayers of protection and favor as they believed they were literally scraping the border between heaven and earth. The poetic side of me loved this imagery, and I soon became convinced that our job, our goal, was to find and create these thin places… But thinking like this gets you trouble.
We don’t will ourselves closer to God.
He’s already with us.
The gap has already been bridged.
The distance has already been thinned.
