Choose a thread.
You don’t need to read everything, or read it in order. Here are three small ways into the archive.
Faith & doubt
Start with doubt inside a lived faith, then step back into the story of conversion and the questions that complicate it.
- Faith & Doubt During Holy Week
Doubting the story of Christ, and still finding myself drawn to Him.
- When the Buddha Failed Me
A personal conversion story, with questions about practice, belonging, and what I was really looking for.
- Christian Controversy over Contemplation
Questions around Christianity and contemplative practice.
Living in a difficult body
Begin with movement and lived experience, continue into practices I’ve tried, and finish with a resource list. These are personal accounts and research, rather than promises of a cure.
- The Miracle of the Body
Chronic pain, learning to move, and the unexpected grace of having a body.
- Learning to Regulate My Nervous System
Techniques I’ve tried, my skepticism, and the uneven process of finding what helps.
- Chronic Pain Resources / Research
A companion list of chronic pain resources and research.
Finding meaning
Meet the fog itself, look at what modern life asks of us, then consider what stories offer, and what they might keep us from.
- My Skull is Full of Fog
An unruly introduction to the fog: truth, authority, confusion, and the shapes we can still recognize.
- The Questions we Must Answer
Religion, modernity, and why returning to the past may be more complicated than it sounds.
- On Writing, Fiction, and Modern Escapism
A love of imagined worlds, and the question of whether stories bring us back to life or away from it.
Prefer dragons?
Start with Rise of the Steel Minds, a short story about machine intelligence and the far future.
For poetry, there’s Waiting, ever waiting. Some creative writing requires a paid Substack subscription; access is managed there.