Paths here are rarely straight
In July 2021, fresh off helping build a tech program in an inner-city Minneapolis school, I created this site after thinking I had something to say: call out the lies, speak some truth.
Since then, leaving the school, my own healing, and seminary have changed the site’s purpose — less correcting the record, more inviting you into the journeys of my life: Healing, Hoping, Flourishing, Belonging, Seeing.
It begins with the journeys.
Pull up a chair. This is that kind of place.
Journeys
These are the journeys that have formed me — and are forming me still. They are honest, unfinished, and open to you.
Click on an image to explore.
Healing holds the scars.
Becoming whole — not by erasing what happened, but by learning to carry it differently.
Hoping finds the ground.
Faith formed over time — through trust, doubt, loss, and the stubborn persistence of return.
Flourishing measures the whole.
Not just the thriving of the included — the vision is shalom, and shalom leaves no one out.
Belonging sets the table.
Family, friends, community — the people and places that know you by name.
Seeing names what’s there.
A visual studio drawing from every journey — because beauty is a form of knowing.
The Economy – the ongoing Rock of Interest
The Economy — A living scorecard tracking how ordinary households are actually doing — inflation, housing, wages, debt — measured against the shalom-or-empire question the rest of this site asks everywhere else. Updated as the data moves. Right now, the read is Crisis.
Rocks of Life
Reflections on what’s happening in the world — in the news, the church, the neighborhood — each one weighed against the vision of shalom.
- Empire at the Water’s Edge
How a Chilean mining conglomerate, a presidential family connection, and a procedural shortcut overrode 650,000 public comments to open the Boundary Waters to a copper mine. - AI – Two Futures
The AI data-center boom isn’t really a question about technology — it’s a question about whether we build around extraction or stewardship. - The Innkeeper Who WatchedThe Innkeeper Who Watched — A parable about Mark Zuckerberg and Meta, and the cost of being surveilled by the very platform pretending to serve you.
- The Way God Wouldn’t Want It
It’s easy to assume God is on our side. It’s harder to ask whether we’re on His. This reflection explores how fear, power, and certainty can distort our picture of God—and why Jesus remains the clearest revelation of what God truly desires. - Hierarchy That Survived – Complementarianism
Complementarianism presents itself as ancient Christianity. History tells a more complicated story. This reflection follows its surprising origins and asks whether the gospel ultimately points toward hierarchy—or toward the mutuality revealed in Jesus.
Sources and Methods
Sources & Methods — are practical ways of telling wisdom from noise, in a media world of everything from bona-fide journalism to rage-prenuers that provoke rather than inform.
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