Archive - Rough Draft

2024 and The New Humanity

Thoughts on hope amid trouble for the year to come.

Jan 13, 2024 •

September 2023

Hope for Anxious Souls

Reflections on Philippians 4:6 and how Jesus meets us in our anxiety

Sep 5, 2023 •

July 2023

The Necessity of Hope

Thinking through the political implications of living between the already and the not yet

Jul 6, 2023 •

May 2023

Long Live the King

How institutional decline gives way to clamoring for a modern monarch

May 30, 2023 •

April 2023

A quick reflection on our increasingly noisy world.

Apr 30, 2023 •

January 2023

On "being faithful over a little" as a twenty-something adult

Jan 31, 2023 •

Santos and the Speaker

On worshiping at the altar of elected office

Jan 9, 2023 •

November 2022

Weekly Musings: November 17, 2022

Bittersweet scrolls and the myth of the silent majority.

Nov 17, 2022 •

August 2022

The Humility of Rest

Why the Bible celebrates playing pickleball

Aug 22, 2022 •

July 2022

The Fault in our Stories

What does the church have to offer to Dave from accounts payable?

Jul 25, 2022 •

May 2022

How much do politics matter?

Is it possible for believers to care too much - or not enough - about our civic participation?

May 24, 2022 •

April 2022

The Path of the Cross in our Public Witness

Peter struggled to understand Jesus' mission, and we sometimes struggle to understand ours.

Apr 25, 2022 •

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