A child kneels beside her bed, hands folded, eyes closed. “Alexa,” she whispers, “can you pray with me?” Across town, a widow cradles her tablet, pouring out her grief to an AI companion that never tires, never judges, and never truly hears. In a university library,...
Christian Spirituality and Public Life
Who Is the Greatest? – Mark 9:33–37
The Jesus Way · Movement 2 · From Competition to Compassion The Argument Nobody Admits To You’ve had this conversation. Maybe not out loud. Maybe never in words at all. But you’ve had it. You’re sitting in a meeting, and someone gets praised for an idea you had first....
The Barn is Never Big Enough – Luke 12:13–21
The Jesus Way · Movement 1 · From Material Success to Spiritual Riches The Obituary Test Here’s an exercise that will ruin your afternoon in the best possible way. Write your own obituary. Not the one you’d want published, the polished version with the impressive...
Consider the Lilles – Matthew 6:25–34
The Jesus Way · Movement 1 · From Material Success to Spiritual Riches 3 a.m. There’s an hour of the night when the mind turns predatory. You know the hour. You were sleeping, or almost sleeping, and then something shifts. A thought surfaces. It might be small at...
The One Thing You Lack – Mark 10:17–27
The Jesus Way · Movement 1 · From Material Success to Spiritual Riches The One Who Got Away There’s a particular kind of sadness that comes from choosing something you already know is second-best. You see it in the person who stays in a career they have outgrown...
Where Your Treasure Is – Matthew 6:19–21
The Jesus Way is a life of radical discipleship to Christ, marked by love, grace, humility, justice, and communion with God and others. It means living the gospel daily, surrendering self-interest, embracing compassion, rejecting worldly power, and embodying peace, generosity, truth, and divine love. It’s a life rooted in prayer, worship, and abiding in God’s presence: drawing life from Christ as the true vine, listening to the Spirit’s voice, and walking in daily dependence upon God’s sustaining grace.
American Dictatorship
American Dictatorship: Why the United States Has Slipped into Authoritarianism and May Soon Be a Dictatorship, and What Americans and the International Community Can Do About It.
The Jesus Way: A Life of Radical Love in a World of Self-Interest
The Jesus Way is a life of radical discipleship to Christ, marked by love, grace, humility, justice, and communion with God and others. It means living the gospel daily, surrendering self-interest, embracing compassion, rejecting worldly power, and embodying peace, generosity, truth, and divine love. It’s a life rooted in prayer, worship, and abiding in God’s presence: drawing life from Christ as the true vine, listening to the Spirit’s voice, and walking in daily dependence upon God’s sustaining grace.
Autosanctity: The Sacralization of Self in a Supposedly Secular Age
In 2015, a Nobel Prize-winning biochemist named Tim Hunt attended a conference in South Korea. During a toast at a luncheon, he made an ill-judged attempt at self-deprecating humor about women in laboratories. Within hours, his remarks had been tweeted, condemned, and...
Philip Yancey, Celebrity, Brokenness, and Me
Philip Yancey shaped my faith. His books on grace, pain, and the mysteries of God met me in seasons when I needed language for experiences I couldn't articulate. When I learned about his eight-year affair and its recent exposure, something in me collapsed. I suspect...
The Rise of Hegemonospheres: Power Blocs, Patron States, and the New World Disorder
Something fundamental has shifted in how the world organizes itself. The architecture of international relations that emerged from the ashes of the Second World War, refined through the Cold War and triumphantly declared universal after 1991, is fracturing. In its...
Sitting with Venezuela: A Reflection on the 2026 US Military Strike on Venezuela
Our societies need affordable housing, which is a human right. The prophetic role of religious communities need not conflict with pragmatic engagement. Churches can work within existing systems to achieve incremental progress while continuing to articulate a vision of justice that transcends current arrangements. The point is to house people.











