• Sex 411: Shylock’s Home

    Sex 411: Shylock’s Home

    Earnest: (pensively) Something is still not right. / Reflection: Clearly all of us have to work together to pick up the full signal. / Klein: In a specific pattern. / Tube: But which of us goes where? / Which: (smiling as she rolls up her sleeves and comes over) I…

  • Odin: The First… and Last

    Odin: The First… and Last

    As Shakespeare, write a historically plausible origin for Norse culture, as the last gasp of the Etruscans around 500 BCE. Use an escaping Titus and his jealous servant Loki to introduce runes and iron working to Captain Odin and his son Thor. Make it an Arthurian tragedy with legendary impact.

  • 2024-11-29 IAM: Lighter (Raising 1/11)

    2024-11-29 IAM: Lighter (Raising 1/11)

    I must be willing / To commit to the next step / Even if I don’t know where or what it is // To lose my balance / After having fought hard to gain it…

  • Orphans and Guardians: A Primer for the Adventurous Self

    Orphans and Guardians: A Primer for the Adventurous Self

    Your inner world is vast and full of potential. When you learn to guide your Orphans and Guardians, you become the hero of your own story. And who knows? Maybe one day, they’ll thank you for being the best DM they’ve ever had.

  • The Last Prayer: Bonhoeffer’s Alternative Ending (Skit)

    The Last Prayer: Bonhoeffer’s Alternative Ending (Skit)

    This story imagines a moment when Bonhoeffer, caught between faith, action, and despair, made a choice to confront evil, not with weapons, but with truth. The goal is not to second-guess his choices, but honor his real-life legacy by grappling with the questions he faced: What does it mean to…

  • 2024-11-28 YAM: Radiate

    2024-11-28 YAM: Radiate

    The weight of my sins / The pressure of society / The burden of responsibility / The gravity of relationships / The load of identity // Relentless / Inescapable / Crushing / Destroying…

  • 2024-11-27 SAM: Mouthful (Payback 3/3)

    2024-11-27 SAM: Mouthful (Payback 3/3)

    I realize / 
The enemies / 
I was running away from / 
Were the orphans / 
Human and inhuman / 
I had fathered / 
And abandoned…

  • 2024-11-26 SAM: Penitent (Payback 2/3)

    2024-11-26 SAM: Penitent (Payback 2/3)

    I take the young lamb / I had been protecting / Who used to eat from my hand / And my table // And lay it on a stone altar / To prepare a feast for my enemies…

  • The Prodigal’s Brother: A Tale of Two Sons (ChatGPT as Tim Keller)

    The Prodigal’s Brother: A Tale of Two Sons (ChatGPT as Tim Keller)

    After that night, James grew colder. He threw himself into acts of service—not to honor his father, but to prove his own worth. People admired him, but they kept their distance. James’s kindness always came with a shadow: the unspoken reminder that he was the righteous one, the one who…

  • 2024-11-25 SAM: Beached (Payback 1/3)

    2024-11-25 SAM: Beached (Payback 1/3)

    Upstream / 
Against a fast-flowing river / 
Ahead of my enemies…

  • 2024-11-24 YAM: Championed

    2024-11-24 YAM: Championed

    Never recognizing / 
The enemy we are consuming / 
Is our very self…

  • Dream: The Lost Supper (Self-Sabotage)

    Dream: The Lost Supper (Self-Sabotage)

    So / 
Deliberately / 
But without conscious thought / 
I knock over my plate…

  • 2024-11-23 SAM: Sought (Faceless 8/8)

    2024-11-23 SAM: Sought (Faceless 8/8)

    Privacy / Security / Shelter / Alll the things we need / To survive in the modern world // Right?

  • 2024-11-22 SAM: Gardened (Faceless 7/8)

    2024-11-22 SAM: Gardened (Faceless 7/8)

    My eyes are closed / 
From the splendor of light / 
But it smells wonderful / 
Like a freshwater garden / 
Instead of a Dead Sea…

  • 2024-11-21 SAM: Relieved (Faceless 6/8)

    2024-11-21 SAM: Relieved (Faceless 6/8)

    The cares of this world / Words of slander / Acts of oppression / Darken my sight / Dimming my vision // Especially / When they come from me…

  • 2024-11-20 SAM: I Here (Faceless 5/8)

    2024-11-20 SAM: I Here (Faceless 5/8)

    For the first time / 
I know where I am / 
Floating peacefully / 
On an endless Dead Sea / 
Longing to live…

  • 2024-11-19 SAM: Fast Break (Faceless 4/8)

    2024-11-19 SAM: Fast Break (Faceless 4/8)

    My hands were filthy / From searching through crud / To find more manna / To fill my new mouth // I don’t know / If I am succeeding / For I lack eyes and nose / To give me feedback…

  • 2024-11-18 SAM: Peace-Meal (Faceless 3/8)

    2024-11-18 SAM: Peace-Meal (Faceless 3/8)

    It is wonderful / 
Except / 
I’m not sure what it is / 
I am eating / 
Because I still lack / 
Eyes to see with / 
Nose to smell with…

  • Church3 and the Spirit of Innovation: How Christ Will Win the Next Millennium

    Church3 and the Spirit of Innovation: How Christ Will Win the Next Millennium

    The Church has always been a movement shaped by tension and transformation. Each era has brought new challenges, requiring the Spirit to expand the Church’s “bandwidth” to see, know, and practice God in ways that fit the needs of the time. Today, as we stand on the threshold of what…

  • Theosis: The Fractal Journey to Encounter, Know, and Practice God

    Theosis: The Fractal Journey to Encounter, Know, and Practice God

    Theosis, or divine union, is a multidimensional journey of transformation that unfolds in three progressive phases: participatory theophany (encountering God), formational theology (knowing God), and embodied theopraxy (practicing God). This pattern is not just a personal path—it is a fractal framework, reflected in the life of individual believers, local churches,…