Reason • Faith in Christ • Fiction • The Embodied Life
A life examined. A life embodied.
Essays on reality, theology, culture and the ordinary disciplines of living beautifully in the world God made.
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Sonnet on The Aseity of Christ
Closed Form: Stanza ABAB, CDCD, EFEF, Final Couplet Continue reading
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Hollow Season
Grief is a guest that stays too long, it sleeps beneath the ribcage, folded quietly like a letter you forgot you wrote. Not gone, just waiting. The body remembers what the mind tries to silence. Holidays come with their gold and noise, but you see the empty chairs, the names not spoken, the faces missing… Continue reading
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Juice the Garden
An excerpt from the forthcoming book The Reasonable Body: A Christian Guide to Juicing, on creation, the nature of the body, and thirty years of juicing. Continue reading
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The Distance Between Pleonexia and the Gospel
Pleonexia is the disordered desire to have more than one’s rightful share that is due, specifically when that gain comes at the harm and expense of another or violates the proper order of sound justice. Pleonexia (πλεονεξία), from pleon (more) and echein (to have), translates literally as the desire to have one’s share and more.… Continue reading
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The Embodied Life
Hair, juicing, fermentation, health, beauty, and the practical art of caring for the life we have been given.
“The earth produces what the body requires; the body receives what the earth provides; and the whole system functions as a unified expression of the wisdom of the One in Whom all things hold together.”
Kate Grace, The Reasonable Body: A Christian Guide to Juicing