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The Risk of Attachment

Becoming attached — truly letting someone matter — is, in many ways, the most dangerous step a human can take. What do we do about that?

In Defense of Normalizing Liminality

A contemplative essay on why the in-between is not an exception but the shape of human experience.

Your First Language Is Presence

Before words, there was presence—and maybe it still speaks most clearly.

The Mystic Scientist

A reflective essay on a passage from C.S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength, exploring how Mark's misplaced mysticism in abstractions mirrors our own temptations today—in education, relationships, and even the digital age— and how presence continually breaks through.

Stop Saying You’re Bad at Saying No

Scope creep isn’t a flaw in willpower. It reveals how devotion, service, and boundaries live in tension. A depth-psychology perspective inspired by Hillman and Moore.

Who Really Observes?

This essay explores how what we call the “hard sciences” rely most on mediated observation and hidden layers of trust, while the “soft sciences” and faith remain rooted in direct, disciplined noticing of life—flipping our cultural assumptions upside down.

Writing About Faith in a Pluralistic World

How do I speak truthfully without sounding like a missionary in disguise?