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.
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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.
Ongoing reflections on life, society, faith, family—and whatever else I find worth commenting on.
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.
- On Hell: Recovering the StoryA personal, biblical, historical, and theological examination of eternal conscious torment—and whether it faithfully reflects the character of God revealed in Jesus.
- Big Chill Devo 2026A devotional for our time together Each step is intentionally short. Don’t rush it, but don’t overthink it either. And if you have children, the pictures here may help them follow along. Introduction As many of you know, I’ve been attending seminary for the last two years. Alongside those studies, I’ve been exploring the idea of human flourishing. Over time I’ve come to believe thatContinue reading “Big Chill Devo 2026”
- 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.
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.
