This “lizard” is our brain’s least-evolved-dinosaur-part (the brain stem). Our Lizard controls our *FIGHT* or *FLIGHT* or *FREEZE* Survival-System (let’s use FFFSS for short) and can highjack all other systems toward this end. Our Lizard and our FFFSS are the featured guests for this post!

"Good People" - "Bad People" and careless Anti-Semitism.

Most hateful religious people are not *too* religious, they are *not religious enough*

Twenty years ago I picked a scrap of paper in a Starbucks parking lot… I haven’t been able to get it’s contents out of my head since

…when we try to lock God into a particular container, we end up in the God management business.

"The Real Job of the Pastor"

Christianity is bankrupt when it has insufficiently developed the humanity of its congregations to be able to carry the moral and spiritual weight of its rhetoric and beliefs.

As I declared, “I am a photographer,” I felt a familiar pang of guilt + shame. What if I was merely pretending to be a photographer…

Breaking are the worst: Triangles, Grounding, and Uninviting. 

Jesus was a child refugee. Thankfully he was not taken from Mary + Joseph by the Egyptians. (Matthew 2:13)