An interesting thing started happening over the last few years that I think is worth noting. Many conservative Evangelical missionaries suddenly became quite interested in resisting colonialism. I know! I was as surprised as you are. After, all, so much of Western Evangelical missions has been a central piece in…

To all followers of Jesus, Greetings from our small corner of the world. I am writing this letter with a degree of uncertainty and anxiety. Most attempts I have made around these topics in the past have not been well received, often met with excuses, hostility, and worst of all, indifference. So, for me, writing…

All too often we hear the term “Luddite” being used to describe someone who is anti-technology or facetiously not adept at technology. In truth, the Luddite movement was far more complex and has a LOT to teach us today. The Luddites were a group of 19th-century English workers (such as…

The speed at which Artificial Intelligence programs have entered the mainstream of late is staggering. From image generations like MidJourney and Lensa, to the recent release of ChatGPT, an AI-driven text generator that has staggering abilities already (such as the near-instantaneous composition of a hilarious song about the dangers of…

Chances are you’ve already seen the headline (or some variation thereof): “AI won an art contest, and artists are furious” Here’s what happened: A Colorado man entered an art competition at the Colorado State Fair Fine Arts Competition in the category of “digital arts/digitally-manipulated photography”. The problem, however, was that…

Today I am packing up to hit the road to visit my parents in the small town of my childhood. This town has been the family home for at least six generations, since before it was even incorporated under the name it now bears. It is also a place of…

In a recent social media post, I engaged with a commenter after they made some wildly uninformed and outright false statements about LGBTQ+ people in general and bisexuality in particular. Despite trying to respond clearly and politely to them, their response back was hostile, inflammatory, and completely closed to genuine…

I’ve come to dislike the term “bully”. Because of its common association with the playground antics of children, the seriousness of its impact and harm is often understated or lost. Whether addressing genuinely harmful mistreatment of a child by another or naming similar dynamics among adults, we seem conditioned to…

Recently, while advocating for Christian churches to do the hard work to make their communities equitable and safe, a friend gently chided me to acknowledge all the good that was happening. They asserted: “I see a lot of churches working really hard to welcome everyone!” On one hand, they are…