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On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, “Let us go across to the other side.” And leaving the crowd behind, they took him with them in the boat, just as he was. Other boats were with him. A great windstorm arose, and the waves beat into the boat, so that theContinue reading “Why Do We Fear the Transformed Man Rather Than the Demons: Reflections on Mark 5 and 6”

Here’s my list of watches for January: The Old Woman With the Knife (Min Kyu-dong, 2026)- a stylish South Korean indie action film with some nice character beats Night Call (Michiel Blanchart, 2025)- a tense low budget thriller about a guy who finds himself in the wrong place at the wrong time from France andContinue reading “My January Watches”

My month started with two hold overs from 2025, the buzzy Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy (format: physical book) and the massive tome, Mark Twain by Ron Chernow (format: audiobook). Both books are ones in which I read the majority last year, but finished in the early weeks of January. McConaghy’s patient mystery livedContinue reading “My January Reads”

I posted a comment back when I started this book about that euphoric feeling that comes when you discover a like mind and a shared language. Especially when it is a voice that has layed hidden in plain sight for all of these years. Partly, I’m sure, due to the association with Anne of GreenContinue reading “A Conversation With Emily of the New Moon: Learning to Preserve Wonder in a World That Wants to Steal It and the Shared Voices that Help Us Do This”

“After all, what’s a life, anyway? We’re born, we live a little while, we die,” Charlottes Web (E.B. White) One of the earliest memories I have of being captivated by a story is reading Charlottes Web. Like the character in Shyamalan and Spark’s recent collaborative effort Remain, I too found myself being struck by thisContinue reading “What is a Life: The Questions of a 7 Year Old Boy and the Stories That Shaped Him”

“The way a story begins is important…. the stories we believe about who we are and where we come from shape our worldview and the way we see ourselves and value others.” (page 43, Redeeming Eden: How Women in the Bible Advance the Story of Salvation) Barely one month in and the beginning of theContinue reading “Between Interpretation and Imagination: Finding the Story in a World of Stories”

There are two direct parallels called to mind in Mark 2:13-17, a story that describes Jesus walking along the sea of Galilee, encountering a crowd, singling out an individual, and being called out for those whom he is associating with and for his words/actions reflecting an offence in light of Torah faithfulness. The first callContinue reading “A Conversation With Mark 2:13-17: What it Means To Follow Jesus and For Sinners to Be Restored and What That Tells Us About the Torah and the Scribes”

(I’ve been gradually trying to force myself to get some of my project into a space where it can hold me accountable to doing something with it. I finished what I would call a rough draft of “my story” last year. So now I’ve been putting the very rough version in pieces in this spaceContinue reading “Chapter 3: Another Piece of a Very Rough Draft at My Attempt To Tell My Story “

Bi Gan’s latest creative venture once again finds the visionary director playing with the subject of perspective, seeing through the lens of this liminal space between dream or illusion and reality. If Long Day’s Journey Into Night reflected on how these transparent spaces translate to cinematic storytelliing and its relationship to form, this film takesContinue reading “Resurrection: The Death of Cinema and Finding Ourselves in That Story”

I’m always a bit cautious when it comes to giving too much weight to surveys. Why? Because I have participated in them myself. I’m not even sure how much I trust myself to answer the questions in a reliable or relevant fashion. I’m also very aware that no single survey can say much on itsContinue reading “Surveys and Headlines: What It Really Means To Say Gen Z is Disconnecting at Higher Rates Than Everyone Else”