Weekly Reflections

March 7, 2026

Waiting on a Prayer (That Maybe Has Already Been Answered)

It’s been almost six months to the day since my book, Finding God in Vegas: A Gen X Spiritual Awakening, was published. My testament to my old and new life recounted as I laid bare my heart and soul to friends and visitors. An excruciating expose exposing every false [...]

Control: Life’s Great Illusion

Why begins any spiritual journey, but surrender only happens when every belief you have about your life is interrogated and laid bare. When you humbly understand your limitations as a human. While acknowledging the self-deception that you’re in control of your world or even your own life. This is [...]

The Scourge of Moral Relativism: When a Culture Can No Longer Name Evil

The America I live in is physically ill, psychologically troubled and spiritually purposeless. Unanchored to any moral bedrock; unsecured to any ethical foundation. We’re a culture in deep despair and disappearing into death. Drowning in a sea of moral relativism and dying in ethical quicksand. Love is no longer [...]

Asking Why is Terrifying Yet It’s the Only Road to Truth

This journey to realize and claim our birthright as children of God only begins when we ask why. When we question the world. When our heart whispers to our head because intuitively it knows that something is very, very wrong within God’s good world.

Choosing a Faith Rooted in Love Not Ideology

We all have a faith, even those who profess no faith. Faith isn’t just about believing in the unseen; it’s about believing in what you have seen. It’s about your motivation to get out of bed each morning. It’s about persevering through struggles and setbacks. It’s about holding onto [...]

The Selling of Fear: The Salvation of Love

We live in a world that only seeks to sell us stuff. Everything from status to salvation is commoditized to try and separate us from our finite time, labored wages and our singular standing as children of God. Divinely created not to be mere objects that consume, but subjects [...]

The Myth of Divided Loyalties, the Lies We Tell Ourselves and the Suck of Politics

In 1963, three years before I was born and two years after the US sent its first combat troops into Vietnam, CS Lewis would write, “The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind desks.” More [...]

My Blue Christmas

I used to love Christmas and the things that surrounded it. The luminous lights, the December decorations, and of course the tasty treats. Remembering a time before the Internet when you couldn’t buy peppermint bark in July and when Santa’s wasn’t competing with scary witches. Our years in America [...]

Right of Center Field: Rediscovering Sunday Fellowship

One Sunday afternoon in late winter, I went out drinking with my friend Ted. We had meet several months before, both recent transplants to Minnesota, both of us outsiders. He was from Wisconsin, I was from Illinois, and he became my closest friend while living in Minnesota. We were [...]

When the French Killed My False Faith in Meritocracy

A year after my fiftieth birthday, the leadership structure where I worked underwent some significant changes. When change happens at the very top, the rest only rolls one way, demonstrating the laws of gravity. I was right in the middle of that way. After spending my entire adult life [...]

From God to Drugs: How Someone With a Masters in Theology Ended Up in Pharma Marketing

No longer my source of income, student loans were now my source of debt. I needed to quickly find a job. I signed up with an employment agency despite limited secretarial skills, having opted out of typing class in high school. (I’m still paying for that shortsighted decision. Like [...]