Confused

Confused

by | Nov 10, 2026 | Blog, Big Ideas

Six years ago, while I was working at a church, a powerful, high-influence parent (Lauren1)complained to me about a volunteer leader who happened to be a friend of mine. The parent told me to remove the volunteer from working with her child, or she and her husband...
Peter

Peter

by | Oct 7, 2026 | Blog, Big Ideas

I want to tell you about a man named Dr. Peter Duesberg. Dr. Peter Duesberg was an extraordinarily accomplished molecular biologist and part of the extended team that discovered the impact of oncogenes (genetic material that causes cancer) and retroviruses. He was...
Grabbing the Basket

Grabbing the Basket

by | Aug 20, 2026 | Blog, Big Ideas

I’ve been thinking about Pharoah’s daughter. In the beginning of the Exodus narrative, the Pharaoh orders all Hebrew baby boys be killed. The Hebrew midwives, Shiphrah and Puah, refuse to do it, and lie to Pharaoh and his men to try to keep the babies safe. When...
Miraccident

Miraccident

by | Aug 14, 2026 | Blog, Big Ideas

“Miraccident”: A portmanteau I just made up of miracle and accident. In his book, Hell: A Search for a Christian Ecology, academic Timothy Morton makes a radical argument for the beauty, strangeness, and unpredictability of everything we consider a given....
Essential Weirdness

Essential Weirdness

by | Jul 30, 2026 | Blog, Big Ideas

In 1979, researcher and author Betsy Leondar-Wright was studying what enabled or inhibited cross class collaboration, particularly in the world of activism. The lived experience behind the question was that while she was well connected to professional middle class...