Recovery, Sweat Lodges, & Preparing for Step 4 Again
Do you believe in change? And, before you answer that, do you still pray? Recently, it’s been another Pauleene pedantic processing season. You’d think this idea that we can arrive…
Elisha (Pt IIIb): How Kingdom is Built Two by Two
“Elisha’s ministry is a sustained assault on the secular autonomy of the palace. He proves that the King cannot even provide bread or water without the mediation of the Covenant.…
Elisha: No More Games & Doubling Down on Spirit (pt. IIIa)
“Elisha is a second Joshua, but he is a Joshua who begins where the first Joshua ended. By retracing the conquest in reverse, the narrative suggests that the land has…
BOOK EXCERPT: Man as the Measure & the Cave’s Shadow
Below is the second part of an excerpt from The Son of Man & Its Mystical Awakening. The first part looked at the objective realities of our inner subjective experiences…
7 Days for 7 Titles — No More Guile & Jacob’s Ladder (John 1:29-2:1)
“The sequence of days in John 1… is a deliberate reconstruction of the creative week of Genesis 1.” — N.T. Wright, (John for Everyone) In the previous post on John, we…
BOOK EXCERPT: The Truth & Love Of Chaos & Order
We’ve spent centuries caught in a binary argument: Nature versus Nurture. We are neither, and both, yet told we were either the sum of our imperfect nature or the byproduct…
Writing Docket & Drunk Pastor Update
A bit of a personal update that serves a secondary purpose of cataloguing current projects in the docket. All of these are underway, and some are on Patreon. Day Job…
THROWBACK: Strangers in the Kingdom of God
*AUTHOR’S NOTE: Originally posted October 9, 2017, on www.validambiguity.com. Throwback posts are Patreon exclusives, but there have been two Patreon posts recently, more coming, and recent drafts and leftovers on Patreon. Plus, this…
Elijah, Part II — Collapse, Care, & the God Who Meets Prophets in Gutters
“…the quietest means are the mightiest.” — F.D. Maurice Mt. Carmel felt like the pinnacle: fire from heaven, prophets of Baal were slaughtered, people confessed, and the drought ended. However,…
Elijah, Part I: Fire, Authority, & Making A Burnout Prophet (1 Kings 17-18)
Updated: 1/31/2026 Elijah is one of those characters who’s difficult not to love. He’s oozing with what Hebrews called qanaʾ, or a fiery zeal. We can see it in his…
