(Summary: Read my recent piece “Hey, Jealousy” on Desiring God) Once again, I am thankful for Desiring God‘s great willingness to help me think through different issues – hard issues. Emotional, circumstantial, life, and not-in-the-bible issues. That’s what I love about DG. They don’t back down from difficult topics. They also don’t back down from complexity. This is a rare, rare balance. So, it’s a privilege to write there. I’m playing catch-up, but after “Talking About Man-Boys,” the next article to be... Read more

Many Christian blogs on suffering can be boiled down to a single phrase: “Jesus juke.” Oh, you’ve got a problem? Jesus. Worship him. Praise him. Trust him. Yet, in making this move, we empty the relevance of Jesus on the floor. We say, “This is the best Christianity has to offer. Nothing, essentially.” What is so tragic on both sides of the equation is that (1) There is so much more wisdom to be had in the Christian tradition than “trust... Read more

I wanted my recent Desiring God Post “Talking About ‘Man-Boys'” to be the beginning of a new kind of conversation between men and women about male immaturity. It’s easy to pass the buck from gender to gender, playing hot potato with responsibility. I wanted to escape that cycle – that relational feedback loop. If men admit responsibility, then that means they have to face their fears and avoidances, which is obviously scary. If women stop attacking their male counterparts (i.e., “telling it... Read more

There is this really amazing web magazine called The Curator, a publication of International Arts Movement. It’s devoted to thinking through the intersection of art and faith. And I am all about intersections. It’s practically the only way to be original anymore. Anyway, they published a piece of mine called “Anxiety and the Rustic Aesthetic.” Everything I write, I try to write out of personal experience. Dating. Cynicism. Self-hatred. Anxiety, of course, is a universal human condition. But that’s not what’s personal to me... Read more