As the war with Iran unravels, it is as if a bulldozer is scraping together memories of my time in Iran and is dumping them out chunk by chunk for me to contemplate.
In 2025, we started working as facilitators for a series of discussions on healthy masculinity. We approached this topic not as experts with ready answers, but rather as explorers grounded in our own personal journeys and facilitators to create the conditions for others to discover with us.
In both cases, Christianity has been severed from the theological tradition that both limits it and gives it coherence.
The revival everyone is debating will not be measured in attendance figures. It will be measured in whether people feel known. And that starts with listening.
My 18-year-old son mailed a letter to our church in February. It’s a quaint act from a bygone time, writing a letter. So much so, I had to show him where to place the return address.