Stars and Parallel
I will start including some of my poetry on this site; here's one I recently wrote, thinking through our current culture.
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The Redemptive Father
September 19, 2025. Thirty years. My biological father has now been gone as long as he lived. He was thirty when he carried a bottle of vodka into a small church in Alva, Oklahoma, and never walked out. I was ten. The death certificate said alcohol poisoning; my heart only
A Forerunner's Song
I leapt before my lungs drew breath, a dance within my mother’s womb, stirred by the nearness of the Coming One, the Word made flesh, still hidden. Camel hair, coarse and rough, scraped my skin; locust wings, brittle, cracked between my teeth. Wild honey, golden and thick, sweetened the
Understanding Revelation: Beyond the Millennial Debate
The Thousand-Year Footnote Hijack (and Why It Drives Me Nuts) Let’s be honest: a thousand-year footnote has hijacked our conversations about Revelation. Ask, “What’s your eschatology?” and too often you’ll get a label, pre-mil this, post-mil that, as if John wrote a decoder ring for timelines instead