I still love the sea, despite the fact that it almost ruined my life. On a windy day in the fall of 2017, while bodysurfing in the Indian Ocean, I was caught off guard by a huge wave that slammed my head against the seabed and swept the rest of my body over it. TheContinue reading “God, the Sea, and Me: How I Found Peace in the Chaos of Unbelief”
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Close Your Bible, Save a Tree: Why Christianity is bad for the environment
What if it’s true? That would be amazing! I’m standing in front of the chimpanzee enclosure at my local zoo when this thought flits through my mind. For the past five minutes, I’ve been gazing at the young ape just beyond the fence — at the lines on his palms, the shape of his nose and mouth,Continue reading “Close Your Bible, Save a Tree: Why Christianity is bad for the environment”
Fire, Foes, & Failed Prophecy: Why Jesus was wrong about the end of the world
We were bound for the Badlands, and I couldn’t have been more excited. When I was a kid, many of my heroes were pulled straight from TV Westerns. There was Davy Crockett from Disney’s King of the Wild Frontier, grinning a grizzly bear into submission. There was True Grit’s Rooster Cogburn, riding into battle withContinue reading “Fire, Foes, & Failed Prophecy: Why Jesus was wrong about the end of the world”
Book Review: The Life of Pi
In the spirit of Life of Pi, let me begin this review with a story. It was June of 2017, and I was on a Qatar Airways flight bound for Southeast Asia. I was a senior in college and had accepted a six-month internship with a missionary organization there. Seated next to me was aContinue reading “Book Review: The Life of Pi”
Words for Wayfarers 