A poem about how even strangers find their… —

Because a place is a person and not a location, and street names are memories Eyes to see a leaf is what you leave me And an emptiness the shape of you. Your scent releases boundaries until My soul is vast and lonely as space. I wish I had memorized…

Why the new Netflix series, Beef, is the best story about grace. — You want to know what grace looks like? Grace, that profound and robust Christian theological concept that holds together the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ as a single story, that both days are necessary to each other, and not grace as mannerism or style, then watch Beef on Netflix. …

What happens when the dead person whose ideas you are talking about actually shows up to talk for oneself? — “Welcome to Lewis Center of W. College, the Harvard of Evangelical Christian College,” says the host, Dr. T, a theology professor with a hip trimmed grey goatee wearing a faded Levi’s jeans. He air quotes “Harvard” and “Evangelical.” “We’re here to talk about C.S. Lewis, an Evangelical Christian,” he air…

Why I am glad I watched this Netflix series with my son. — Physical 100, a new Netflix series, shatters Asian stereotypes and ruthless capitalism (well, it’s a start), all while giving wholesome family entertainment — men with washboard abs strip to their pants and women go mud wrestling but no camera angles to hypersexualize it or “hidden” cameras catching a “staged” sexcapade. …

The revealing of my first son — My wife has been in labor for 20 hours but the boy’s not ready for his revealing. What’s he waiting for? She refuses epidural and demerol; going to go the old fashioned way, hicks breathing. How can counting counter pain? hee-hee-whoo hee-hee-whoo I go back and forth from the contraction to…

My cat teaching me the spiritual discipline of lent

A Poem on The Limits of a Mother’s… —

The Swiss-Army hyphen and what it does for identities — There’s nothing as versatile as the Hyphen, a swiss army knife of language, rescue words from any emergency: run-on sentences to adjectivitis even the apocalypse when wielded by MacGyver-hands. The Hyphen isn’t a word, lacks the bone structures of letters. The Hyphen has the morphology of a punctuation, but not…