I sometimes doubt my ability to truly love. Is it love when characterized by transaction and routine? Is it real when we return with a sense of duty & obligation more than genuine desire? I realize that this paradigm, desire, is only one facet in which we experience love in our lives. I mostly call […]
Dreams of My Grandfather
Love them. Know them. Ensure that they know what the warmth of the sun feels like. Bring them water. Speak with them. And let them go. Again and again this will be asked of you. Let them go.
Harry Styles’ “Matilda” and the Generation that Listened
Matilda shows stronger ways of being, and the good things we once thought were too good may be within reach.
Merry-Go-Round
Only the heat spoke from its fiery mouth that summer.
If You Hate it Enough?
When I was studying music in a very serious (wink wink) university music school, I was part of a saxophone studio. We (the studio) had weekly meetings with our professor, and another weekly meeting of just saxophonists, and we exchanged feedback in these settings. Every week. For four years. It’s intense, and honest, and frequently […]
Forgive Them, Father: An Open Letter to Clergy Speaking to LGBTQIA+ People
The Biblical scholarship is there. The history is there. The sociological evidence is there. The psychology is there. The church is behind.