November 13th, 2023 i'm gonna need that back ESTIMATED READ TIME: 9 min (+3 if you read the p.s. section) ↓ ICYMI: If you didn't get earlier hopeletters, find them here. At this point, there are a lot of words or concepts I don’t need to repossess from the difficult things that happened in my past. If I never hear them again, I will be fine. Through the course of my life, there have been so many contradictions within them that I just don’t need them anymore. I’m sure you have your list, too....
over 2 years ago • 13 min read
November 1st, 2023 the ghost of a good thing ESTIMATED READ TIME: 10 min ↓ ICYMI: If you didn't get earlier hopeletters, find them here. “My kingdom is not of this world.” –Jesus It’s been a heavy ten days since my last letter. It feels like earth turned the volume on the evil meter up to eleven again, and my soul feels like it has disintegrated down to that sad little puddle, unable to reconstitute itself into a livable, movable entity. David used to cry out to God, Why are you cast down, O...
over 2 years ago • 9 min read
October 20th, 2023 when church isn't church ESTIMATED READ TIME: 8 min ↓ ICYMI: If you didn't get hopeletter 1, you can read it here. The quiet was familiar in our caravan of cars full of youth group kids cruising back home from San Francisco after the big weekend youth rally to “save a generation.” Friday energy was high on the way there, but now everyone was Sunday napping and a thought drifted into my head… That wasn't going to do it. For the last 20 years, at least, research and...
over 2 years ago • 8 min read
October 10th, 2023 an inaugural hopeletter ESTIMATED READ TIME: 8 min ↓ “It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.” –J.R.R. Tolkien Staying inside doesn’t feel safe anymore, so it’s time for some dangerous business. A few years ago, a massive wildfire ripped through the town of Paradise, California. It covered and consumed everything in its path at an average rate of a...
just now • 8 min read
October 10th, 2023 an inaugural hopeletter ESTIMATED READ TIME: 8 min ↓ “It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.” –J.R.R. Tolkien Staying inside doesn’t feel safe anymore, so it’s time for some dangerous business. A few years ago, a massive wildfire ripped through the town of Paradise, California. It covered and consumed everything in its path at an average rate of a...
over 2 years ago • 8 min read