Telling My Story: Beginning Chapters and the World We Are Born Into

I recently posted a rough draft of a personal project I have been working on for many years, which is simply an attempt to write my story. Why? For myself. So I can make sense of my story as it stands. Come to terms with it. A therapeutic exercise. In any case, I decided toContinue reading “Telling My Story: Beginning Chapters and the World We Are Born Into”

Making Sense of a Life: Forcing Myself to Finish a Longstanding Project.

I’ve been spending so much time on my project as of late. The attempt to finally write “the story of my life,” which I’ve made a conserted effort to make some progress on in 2025. Sadly I’ve been neglecting this space because of that. Thus I figured I’d give myself a needed push and forceContinue reading “Making Sense of a Life: Forcing Myself to Finish a Longstanding Project.”

The Science of Storytelling: A Dialogue With Will Storr Regarding Why Stories Matter to Our Understanding of Science

“We know how this ends. You’re going to die and so will everyone you love. And then there will be heat death. All the change in the universe will cease, the stars will die, and there’ll be nothing left of anything but infinite, dead, freezing void. Human life, in all it’s noise and hubris, willContinue reading “The Science of Storytelling: A Dialogue With Will Storr Regarding Why Stories Matter to Our Understanding of Science”

40 Years of Back to the Future: How My Favorite Childhood Film Still Resonates For My Adult Brain

Anyone who knows me knows my deep affection for the Back To The Future franchise. Memories of my 10 year old self sitting in the back room of my dad’s small office at the corner of Redwood and Henderson in Winnipeg watching my coveted VHS copy while my dad worked. Memories of lining up outsideContinue reading “40 Years of Back to the Future: How My Favorite Childhood Film Still Resonates For My Adult Brain”

Navigating Theological Differences: How We Make Space For Each Other 

Question: When we are navigating differences in theology with fellow christians, is it ever proper to say that someone, by nature of holding to a different theological framework or idea, is standing opposed to scripture? I mean, I understand that we hold to our positions and beliefs because we see it as true. Thus itContinue reading “Navigating Theological Differences: How We Make Space For Each Other “

The Importance of Mystery: Where Embodied Experience Leads to True Knowledge

A question I’ve been pondering this week:Is mystery the gap bwteeen the scientific data we know and the data we don’t know? To ask that in another way: is the aim of mystery to fill that gap with more scientific knowledge? In his book How God Changes Your Brain, neuroscientist Andrew Newberg argues that seekingContinue reading “The Importance of Mystery: Where Embodied Experience Leads to True Knowledge”

God, the Brain, and Belief: How We are Drawn to Metaphysics and how Metaphysics Leads us To Theology

Question:As agnostic neuroscientist suggests in his book How God Changes Your Brain, it’s not so much that this external concept changes some brains through selective engagement with influences outside of ourselves, it’s that all human brains evolve through a necessary belief in God. If this is the case, this taps into that an important partContinue reading “God, the Brain, and Belief: How We are Drawn to Metaphysics and how Metaphysics Leads us To Theology”

What is Our Directive: Tron Ares and the Existential Crisis

What will be your directive now. In the recent movie Tron Ares this is the question posed to one of the film’s main protagonists, a digital creation and program (Master Control, played by Jared Leto, which has found itself needing to adapt to its encounters with the human world. Tron Ares flips the script, makingContinue reading “What is Our Directive: Tron Ares and the Existential Crisis”

To Be Rejoice Worthy: Seeking the Thanksgiving in Philippians 4

Paul’s letter to the Philippians has been a favorite of mine ever since I was a child. I was rerreading a portion of it this morning, my childhood long behind me, and jotting down some thoughts that maybe reframe how this letter continues to speak to me today: 4 Rejoice in the Lord always. Again IContinue reading “To Be Rejoice Worthy: Seeking the Thanksgiving in Philippians 4”

A Theology of Horror and A Theology of Flouishing: Two Books and One Idea Shaping This Year’s Spooky Season

Picking up Ryan G Dunns Theology of Horror: The Hidden Depths of Popular Films seemed an obvious fit for spooky season. Less obvious would be pairing it with Paul J. Schutz’s A Theology of Flouishing. There were two portions of Schutz’s introduction that helped solidify this as a helpful conversation partner with a theology ofContinue reading “A Theology of Horror and A Theology of Flouishing: Two Books and One Idea Shaping This Year’s Spooky Season”