I like to share my thoughts on theological and philosophical topics. I am also a student working through an MDiv and occasionally share papers on the blog. If you have any questions on a paper or blog post, send me a message! I’d love to talk with you about it.
Anxiety-Driven Theology: pt 2
This second essay in the Anxiety-Driven Theology series explores how fear pulls God’s people back toward the systems that once shaped them. Beginning with Abraham’s journey from Mesopotamia to Egypt and continuing through Israel’s wilderness complaints, the blog traces how Scripture exposes the spiritual seduction of Empire. Israel’s struggle was not merely the worship of false gods, but the deeper temptation to trust visible power, political security, economic stability, and predictable provision more than the presence of Yahweh. This reflection invites readers to examine how anxiety still shapes theology today.
Pentecost and the Color Line
Pentecost was never just about speaking in tongues. In this thought-provoking exploration of William J. Seymour and the Azusa Street Revival, discover how the Holy Spirit was poured out to heal racial division, unite the nations, and form one family in Christ. A compelling call for the church to recover the true purpose of Pentecost: reconciliation, justice, and Spirit-filled unity.
The Problem with Saying “I’m Not Being Fed.”
Every day we are being formed by something. We’re all being shaped, bit by bit, day by day, into someone. Most well-intended Christians hope to be formed into strong followers of Jesus, but the problem is in the word “hope.”
Nobody will wake up one morning and go, “Oh wow, I’m a devoted follower of Jesus with strong, healthy habits and spiritual disciplines. So glad I made it!”
On Sex and Marriage: Don’t Promise What the Bible Does Not.
The increasingly liberal message in the 80s and 90s was that men and women are freer and fulfilled by having numerous, diverse sexual encounters. Instead of correcting this false assumption and dismantling it, purity culture tried to offer the same fulfillment using sex but giving a different formula: “You will be freer and fulfilled by sex if you abstain until marriage.” This never works in any context with any cultural or moral issue. You cannot try to promise the same things secular culture promises but offer a different formula, because the truth of Christianity is that everything the secular world promises is often meaningless and finite. Christianity reveals a greater, fulfilling, and eternal promise that in relationship with our Creator, God, we have everything we want and need. Secular culture will never understand this, so it will never offer it. That’s why people who don’t understand what it means to have a relationship with Jesus are always trying to find fulfillment in something else. Disguising secular fulfillment by clothing it in Christian moral terms and boundaries does not help: If anything, it damages the idea of true Christian faith in the long run.
