When the Pack Moves On Without You
What do you do when you can’t keep believing like you always have—but speaking that truth costs you your place in the community that once felt like home? This is a story about faith, doubt, honesty, and the quiet grief of losing the pack.
Still Here, But Not Necessarily at Home
I used to feel proud to be a Texan and grateful to be American. These days, I feel like an exile in both. Still here—but no longer at home.
Not Your Formula: What a ‘Personal Relationship with Jesus’ Really Means
A “personal relationship with Jesus Christ” is meant to be intimate and unique—but too often, evangelical culture demands that it follow a formula. What if personal really means personal?
When Faith Wears a Flag: Why I Can’t Make Sense of Christian Nationalism
As fireworks light up the sky this Independence Day, I’m reflecting on something harder to celebrate—the way faith and nationalism have been fused in American churches. This post asks whether the Jesus you claim to follow ever asked for national loyalty in the first place.
What to Grasp Onto When You Don’t Know What to Grasp Onto
When someone you love is hurting—and maybe you are too—it can feel impossible to know what to hold onto. This is for anyone searching for something real in the middle of the fog.
Randomly Rudimentary Faith Stuff 