Is it possible we mislabel experiences? The reason I pose the question is…we have an experience —raw, unfiltered, untouched by meaning. Then, almost immediately, the label follows. Never neutral, always carrying weight: pleasure or discomfort, right or wrong, safe or threatening. I am the one applying the label, yet it rarely feels that way. It…

We live surrounded by information, immersed in it, flooded by it—and yet, we only ever receive what we’re ready to receive. Not because the rest isn’t there, but because we haven’t yet built the framework to recognize it, to hold it, to make sense of it. Understanding is less about exposure and more about preparedness.…

To understand another person, you have to step into the frame they’re standing in. Every thought, every word, every conclusion is shaped against a backdrop—a paradigm they may not even realize they’re carrying. You don’t have to agree with it. You don’t have to adopt it. But if you try to interpret their words from…

God is greater than the god we construct. That alone unsettles the whole arrangement. Because what we tend to hold is not God, but an idea about God—shaped, framed, and made manageable. Something that fits within the boundaries of thought, doctrine, and language. But whatever God is, it doesn’t sit inside those boundaries. It exceeds…

The thing is, feelings show up and we assume they’re telling us something true about what’s happening. But that’s not always the case. The feeling is real—no question—but what gave rise to it may not be current, or even accurate. We don’t just feel—we interpret, and then we feel. Something happens, and almost instantly we…

Is language time-based—and therefore of little use in describing the metaphysical? That’s an idea l’m intrigued with. Language itself isn’t inherently bound to time, yet it is bound to sequence—and sequence is how we experience time. Words don’t arrive all at once; they unfold, one after another, building meaning step by step. Even when we…

We tend to look at the span of humanity and assume we have the whole story. We speak confidently of history, of civilizations, of the arc of development—as if the record were comprehensive. But when we slow down and stretch the timeline out, what do we really see. We have been told anatomically modern humans…

If we’re really going to understand the gospel, we have to start by admitting something simple but easy to overlook: most of what we think we know about Jesus has already been shaped for us. It’s been organized, interpreted, systematized. We’re not hearing a raw voice—we’re hearing a voice that has traveled through time, culture,…

Let me say this as plainly as I can, because this matters more than most people realize. When we approach Christianity today, we often assume we’re reading it straight—clean, direct, untouched—as if opening the New Testament places us shoulder to shoulder with Jesus in real time. But that’s not what’s happening. We are not reading…

Lately I’ve been reflecting again on something subtle but incredibly important—the “observer”. Most of us are familiar with mental chatter that runs almost constantly in the background of our lives. Thoughts interpreting events, judging situations, narrating our experiences, replaying conversations. The mind seems endlessly busy constructing and reconstructing our life story. But if you look…