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2026-01-12 YAM: Angel Armies (Mighty 5/11)
And instead of a choir / Twelve legions of angels / Are somehow pinned around me…
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Surprising Soil: Mark 4 as Active Inference
But because no system built to minimize surprise can easily receive a God who insists on resurrection through death…
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Snaky Scripture: Paul’s Nehushtan Confession
And you inherited me / without the urgency, / without the presence, / without the trembling…
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2026-01-11 YAM: Favored Son (Mighty 4/11)
Wrapped in a surgical gown / In the delivery room / Next to The Bride / While The Father waits outside…
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The Narrow Corridor: A Script for Saving Iran
Iran stands in that corridor now. / Real people will have to navigate it with incomplete information, conflicting incentives, and no guarantee that good faith will be rewarded. // Some will act from principle. / Others from fear. / Most from both…
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How Soul Births Us (On Dostoevsky)
Dostoevsky shows us the maximum richness of uncontained interiority. / Ur, Ba, Zion shows us the conditions under which such richness can live…
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2026-01-10 YAM: Safe and Sound (Mighty 3/11)
Our clown car / Is moving faster / Than humanly possible // Which is only / To be expected / With My Father driving…
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2026-01-09 YAM: Build a House (Mighty 2/11)
My father convinced me / And several others / To join Him in a clown car…
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2026-01-09 YAM: Awe-Inspiring (Mighty 1/11)
Waiting in the wings / Of the circus / For my act / To begin…
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The Reverse Theodicy of Simone Weil
Goodness is not what explains suffering. / Goodness is what sometimes appears when suffering is attended to without lying…
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2026-01-07 IAM: Follows God’s Ways (Shining 7/7)
But I did not realize / That it meant / Giving my heart back to God / While my body remains on earth…
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The Scapelambs: Paul, Bonhoeffer & Weil
GIRARD: // I explained how societies survive by sacrifice. / You survived without letting sacrifice work. / That is what I don’t understand…
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2026-01-06 IAM: Return to Yahweh (Shining 6/?)
Releasing my heart / Toward the stars / To fill the hole / It left in God’s…
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2026-01-05 IAM: Days Are Numbered (Shining 5/7)
That star’s light / Is the hole in God’s heart / Left by my absence / From His presence…
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Zealotry: “Blessed are the pure in hatred, for they will be God”
Zealotry is not the opposite of faith. / It is faith without vulnerability…
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Commandeering Jesus (Mark 3 on The Most Dangerous Possession)
The trouble with this chapter is that it refuses to stay put. / Demons speak correctly. / Family loves sincerely. / Theologians reason carefully. / And Jesus treats all three as threats…
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2026-01-04 YAM: Hand of Conviction (Shining 4/7)
With my heart / Given away in a manger / I feel hollow…
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2026-01-03 IAM: Easy to Please (Shining 3/7)
I hold my heart / In my hands // Wrap it in swaddling clothes / And lay it in the manger…
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2026-01-02 IAM: Heart Erupts (Shining 2/7)
He has ascended / Far beyond the religion / That birthed Him…
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