Rejection sucks. It happens for different reasons. I just wasn’t feeling it. I don’t feel the same way. I think we’re just really different people. Sometimes it feels like it’s based on a lie. But they don’t know me! They haven’t seen the real me. [...]
Since you probably won’t be able to do all the summer things you normally do, you owe it to yourself to make good use of some extra personal development time. Here are 5 books I think are particularly relevant reads for your COVID season. Note: [...]
In talks about deconstructing faith, I thought it would be helpful to go back to the basics and, well, deconstruct. So what, exactly, is the nature of this “faith” that we are deconstructing? Some definitions you can find if you bothered: Now faith is being [...]
For nearly 15 years, I've been talking to men about their lives. I started to notice a pattern common to many, myself included: an eventual disillusionment with institutions, beliefs, subjects, or life itself after a season of zeal or passion. Religious zeal enters a deconstruction [...]
Narrative Therapy - it’s a thing. Understand your life as a story, complete with beginning, denouement, climax, and all the conflict in between. Like any good story that’s not a tragedy (and even tragedies to some extent), our lives have redemption and purpose. Such is [...]
Deconversions! Deconversions everywhere. From Rhett & Link to everyone and their mother. Maybe it’s negativity bias, or maybe it’s the stage of life I’m in, but it seems to be happening all over. I’m going through some of my own faith stuff recently, so I [...]
I’m in a weird spot. I’m 30 and single. That's unusual, both historically and in my Christian subculture (at least for males). It's not so unusual in contemporary Western culture, but experience and statistics seem to suggest that an unmarried male is going to have [...]
I originally wrote this post to close out 2019 and the 20-teens effectively. Whether it's your year-end review or the end of a relationship or whatever, I hope you make use of these 5 ways to finish strong. Pause. A good ending requires time, but [...]
Allow this movie nerd an analogy. Any good ending is like a good end-credits scene. The right timing, the right music… just the right level of nostalgia. Think Transformers with What I’ve Done. The Matrix with Wake Up. Or the Fellowship of the Ring with [...]
To the glory of God, 2019.
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