Category: Art
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Taking Authority Back From Religious Snakes and Scorpions (ChatGPT as Isaac of Nineveh)
The Church has taught her children to obey / but has forgotten to teach them to trust. // She has hidden the crown of authority / beneath robes of control and ritual fear. // Now the Spirit stirs again. / Not to destroy, but to awaken…
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The Missing “Spirit-Led Life” Manual
Pogue: (stands, exasperated) Stop! Do you hear yourselves? Grace. Effort. Dishes. You’re all clutching your agendas like brand logos. Meanwhile, the Spirit’s been standing right there the whole time!
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The Law as Flesh 2.0
LAW: Flesh, you stand accused of indulgence, rebellion, and pride. / You have broken the moral code, offended righteousness. / Justice must be served…
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Dream: Tea V. Shame
They will want / Me to condemn him // Or failing that / Use me / To vent their anger by proxy…
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Skit: “So You Want to Be His Disciple?”
“It strikes me that the church has rarely taken seriously the definition of discipleship used by Jesus in Luke 9:23, particularly in the Pauline sense of being crucified with Christ — daily! What might it look like to do that, without falling back into religious clichés?”
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Does Anybody Really Want to Be HIS Disciple?
Now, I don’t know about y’all… but that don’t exactly sound like a marketing slogan. That’s not, ‘Your Best Life Now.’ That’s more like, ‘Come Die With Me, Season One.’
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Wilberforce: We Need Perfume Breakers, Not New Wine Brokers
New wine is not a better law. It is not a more ethical framework, nor a more inclusive rulebook. It is the living presence of Christ Galatians 2:20—wild, liberating, uncontrollable. And He cannot be sold, only received. He cannot be managed, only magnified.
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The Silver Law of Theocracy
The Iron Law tells us how institutions entrench themselves in power. / The Silver Law tells us how they lose their soul.
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From Wine Broker to Perfume Breaker
MARY MAGDALENE: Brother Pierre. You savor your wine, but beware the wine broker’s trap: “No one after drinking old wine desires new, for he says, ‘The old is better’” (Luke 5:39).
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How to Honor the Law: A Diaphoric Interview
I have spent my life teaching the moral vision of the New Testament — but I confess the question still stirs me. / Not just “How do I obey the Law?” / But how do I honor it — as Scripture, as tradition, as divine wisdom — without idolizing it?
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Disseminating Diaphoris: Toward a Participatory Christian Education
Folks, this Diaphoric Participation—where the student actively lives into union with Christ, not just learns about it—is an intriguing remedy for our overly Platonic schools. Thoughts?
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hel.lo.a.thing (The Un-Reconciled Part)
Youth: You… are not wrong. This is the pit that all mortal life is designed to avoid. And [looking at them with shining eyes] I thank you for the costly sacrifices you made, to keep me — us — alive.
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A God Who Needs: The Divine Archetype Behind Shame
Lewis: Then here’s my thought: shame is what divine need feels like when there’s no guarantee it will be met.
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Danksgiving: A Ceremony for Holy Saturdays
Danksgiving is the sacred practice of giving thanks in the dark— before the miracle, without the music, still in the tomb.
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Beyond Cathedrals: The Kingdom of God Is Like an Ecosystem
The Kingdom, as portrayed in Matthew 13, behaves less like a cathedral—centralized, curated—and more like an ecosystem: distributed, adaptive, antifragile, and oddly fecund.
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Identificational Prayer: The Cross That Destroys Strongholds
I’ve learned that identificational prayer — standing in humility, identifying with those we pray for — is the most powerful prayer there is. / James says “the prayer of a righteous person has great power” (James 5:16), and in Christ, that righteousness is ours by grace, not by performance. /…
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Dream: Un-Conventional
People who naively assume I am going where they are going, just because they see me around, is kind of how I feel at church.
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Singing to Shame: The Gospel According to K‑Pop Demon Hunters
K‑Pop Demon Hunters is not a cute fable. / It is an epistle written in fire and song. // It calls us to: • Lay down the Law as a mask for shame. • Stop exalting purity over love. • Die to our righteous personas, that Christ may live in…
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Hello, Shame (Third Reconciled Part)
Shadow: I once… was like you. But I ventured too close to the Place of the Skull, and it began to unmake me. I let out a cry of warning, and only that cry escaped. Now [shuddering] all that is left of me is that cry, which I use to…
Radically Happy 