Writer, lay church leader, former felon. I write about redemption, masculine formation, and faith without pretending. Based in Tacoma with my wife Megan and our family.
Masculine Formation
There you are in the parking lot of a Target, watching a man in his forties lose his mind on his wife because she bought the wrong brand of paper towels. Full volume. Veins bulging in ways that veins aren't meant to expand. His kids are in the
Faith After Failure
This question has been rattling around in my head for years. When my church started a conversation about eldership and what it looks like, we dove right into the qualifications of an elder, and the "men only" part rubbed me the wrong way. Why only men? Shouldn'
Redemption
A friend unfollowed me on Twitter. This was back in 2011, which means it was original Twitter, the good Twitter, the Twitter where your follower count still felt like it mattered. And my friend, a woman I respected, had just removed herself from mine. Not the sort of thing a