I can’t sleep these days. I lay in bed for at least an hour every night. Sometimes 2 or more hours. This is after I’ve turned off the lights, shut down the computer, and closed my book. I lay there. Heavy. Overwhelmed. And thinking. I can’t quit thinking about my over-consumption. I talk about how [...]

While I think The Consumptive Church is only possible in an affluent white man’s world, I am also becoming painfully aware that critiques like mine are only possible because of the larger framework of that same affluent context. Perhaps these critiques really are more rooted in appeasing my guilt than they are in deep fundamental change.

In these critiques of mine . . . these “opting-outs” of conventional consumptive patterns, I’m afraid that the larger myths of consumption to satisfy might still go un-critiqued.

Because soon (a couple more years) the political climate will not allow it.
Terrorism is a growing threat. It is a threat that can not be beaten by conventional warfare. It’s not like there are some Germans standing behind this line that we just have to line up with and exchange tactical military procedures. Terrorists are [...]

I think both sides of American politics are starting to realize that extremism and polarizing politics are not as “fashionable” as they once were.
I’m still not confident that the reason politicians are beginning to shift towards the center are because they have truly have a heart change or just for pragmatics after seeing the polls. [...]