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I wrote and reflected on my experience with Rowan William’s Discovering Christianity: A Guide For the Curious, Henry Cloud’s Why I Believe: A Psychologist’s Thoughts on Suffering, Miracles, Science, and Faith, and Christopher Beha’s Why I Am Not An Atheist here. Thus I figured I would focus on my other reads in this end ofContinue reading “My Month in Reading: March”

“I don’t know what faith means anymore.” This is how the conversation begins in the new book, Glimmerings: Letters on Faith Between a Poet and a Theologian by Miroslav Volf and Christian Wiman. The words come from Wiman, posing a statment (as a question) to Volf based on the following observation: “I fear those bigContinue reading “Why I Believe: Where The Glimmerings Meet Experience, Desire, and Philosophy”

Watching, conversing and writing about film has been a hobby of mine for a long while. Ever since I first graced the screens, which was a re-release of Lady and the Tramp back in the 80’s, I have been drawn to the allure of this mode of storytelling. This unique artform. Over the years thisContinue reading “Project Hail Mary and The True Patterns of Hope”

“Not until we refuse to indulge our curiousity about what is wrong with others are we free to take a genuine interest in them as people loved by God… Too many times we confuse religious gossip with spiritual concern.” (A Year With Jesus, Eugene Peterson) The way Peterson frames our focus on uncovering “what isContinue reading “What It Means To Be Liberated From the Ways in Which the World and it’s Many Others See Us”

As I mentioned earlier, remembering my life is, in part, actively travelling the roads back through the different neighborhoods and houses I have called home over the years. Our first moves (“our” being my family), from Manitoba avenue in the north end, over the iconic Redwood bridge, which crosses our city’s main water line, theContinue reading “My Life Story: Chapter 6”

Got a life, and it’s my first time livingGot eyes, but that don’t mean I have visionSome days just getting through is winningSome days you just say good riddance Got a heart, but it’s my first time feelingGot a floor that used to be my ceilingSome people have a way of reachingAll the parts youContinue reading “How Do We Know Anything At All: Reflections on the Fray, Ephesians, and the Life Lived In-between”

*as mentioned elsewhere in this space, these installments are my intention to get a very rough draft of a personal project I have been working on for a numbers of years (writing my life story) off the word d and somewhere where it could hold me accountable to doing something with it. At this pointContinue reading “My Life Story: Chapter 5”

Anyone taking a jaunt through the hallways and rooms of our home, the first thing that is likely to jump out is the sheer amount of attention our walls and shelves give to New York City. If asked, the reason for this visible presence woulld take the shape of a story. More specifically, the storyContinue reading “Once Upon a Time in America: How I Find My Relationship to America Changing, and How It Impacts My Feelings About the West”

Send Help (Sam Raimi)- The anticipated return of Raimi to what he does best, which is full on unfiltered horror/thriller mode. Don’t sleep on McAdams however, who seems charged up here to give Raimi some competition on that front. Whatever commentary it leaves slightly uncooked and underutilized it more than makes up for in entertainmentContinue reading “My February Watches”

My February Reads: 3. Sea of Memories by Fiona Valpy (Kindle e-book)Sentimental, but in all the right ways. I love how it begins so contained and then breaks wide open into a more sweeping narrative. Mostly I was immersed in its setting, which went a long ways in helping the characters to come alive asContinue reading “My February Reads”