Welcome!

Introducing 'Dispatches from the Spiritual Front'

Hi there and thanks for coming!

I think of our meeting like this as being very much like a blind date. You don’t know me (yet) and I don’t know you (but look forward to the possibility). It’s fair to say that each of us is hoping for an experience that’s out of the ordinary and worthwhile. We want something that’s real compared to the manufactured and manic semblance of “connection” that is most common these days.

As a writer, musician and podcaster, what I want most is the chance to be heard, to close the circuit between creation and reciprocation through your engagement. I expect what you want is to see yourself reflected in what you find here — your questions, struggles, hopes, beliefs, ideas and dreams — not just to be parroted, but to be affirmed and validated. To find common cause in the quest for Truth and the nuts and bolts knowledge of how to live in it.

I’ll tell you plainly that the Way, the Truth and the Life we seek has already been found — in Jesus Christ our Lord. But to me that’s not the intellectual cul de sac that many see it to be or the end of discovery and adventure. Just the opposite! In a world that’s as lost and confused as this one, what could be more exciting (and yes, sometimes harrowing) than following the One who has invited us into an entirely new way of being human? Of all the stories we tell, the tale of redemption is the most powerful. The path of faith is the hero’s journey on the grandest scale possible — and in the smallest, most intimate details of life as well.

What on earth could be better than that?

So, if you decide to stick around for more than one date, I promise an honest and open conversation in this space about the only question that matters (though it exists in infinite variations): How then shall we live?