Reading and Writing...
Every time I asked my friend Justin what he did at school, he'd reply ethusiastically:
"Reading and Writing."
"What did you read?"
"Writing!"
"What did you write?"
"Reading."
I have decided that I too will be enthusiastic about Reading and Writing.
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Currently I'm working on...
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"No Shade in the Shadow of the Cross”: Sufjan Stevens - in Search of (Queer) Faith.
Chapter in My Impossible Soul: The Metamodern Music of Sufjan Stevens. Edited Book in Studies in Metamodernism: Theory and Criticism across the Disciplines. Rowman & Littlefield: Forthcoming 2025.
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Hostile Hospitality: When Helping Hurts.
Research in Harm for Christians with Queer and Disabled experiences in Religious Spaces and Practices. Forthcoming 2025. ​
Writings on Pastoral Ministry
Whatever Happened to Kindness?
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"Perhaps the removed and ‘virtual’ nature of online discussion makes us bolder with our words because we have little real relationship at stake."
Comfort for Weary, Bruised and Broken Gospel Servants
"Our sense of justice may never be satisfied; the pain of loss and trauma might lessen but remain; memories might dim but continue to exist with us."
Global Leaders and Charismatic Preachers.
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When you think that the local church with the average bake-sales, empty pews during the summer holidays, and its slightly out-of-beat drummer are all indicative of passionless apathy, remember that God’s kingdom manifests, “not by might nor by power, but by [the] Spirit.” (Zech 4:6)
Writings on Christian Sexuality
How Do We Walk in Midst of the Already and Not Yet?
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"Does Jesus promise ultimate joy in our sexuality and singleness in this life or should we expect to continue to yearn for satisfaction as long as we are in this world?"
A Collab with Adele and Paul the Apostle
"Adele challenges me to recognize that the path from emptiness to fulfillment may take eleven years or more (and four albums in between)."
A Christian’s Posture towards Pride Month and LGBTQ+ People
"Perhaps more of us need to be sent with beautiful feet, to speak good news to those in the LGBTQ+ community who have not heard and are yet to believe and call on Jesus as their saviour (Rom 10:14-15)."
Academic Pieces
Those days of Holocaust will cease but ‘these days of Purim will never cease’: A practical theology of Purim.
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"The eternal nature of Purim gives G-D’s people power because there is certainty that the celebration of deliverance will come, people of faith can celebrate as if it has come"
‘Lovely in [impaired] limbs, and lovely in [impaired] eyes all his:’ A practical theology reflection on beauty, disgust, and aesthetics for Christian engagement with disability and impairment
'Throw Your Bread upon the Water!' Identity, Vocation and Christian Living in Competing Economies​
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"When we lift our gaze from the story of man’s scarcity and leap into the story of divine fullness, we live in tension of being receivers of gifts and givers of gifts, finding that.. ‘it is more blessed to give than to receive’ (Acts 20:35).
Writings on Trauma Informed Pastoral Ministry
Learning the Caligraphy of Love
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"Love in the eyes of God is a person-to-person, side-by-side, down-to-earth, working-it-out-till-the-very-end kind of love."
A Gentle Christmas and a Realistic New Year
"Remember those who never see their name on a Christmas stocking, who have no seat waiting at a family gathering, who only ever see their names on letters from the electricity company or email subscriptions."
Try Softer
"Whether the crisis is personal, relational or global, being caught in the middle of an out-of-control situation can leave us questioning our everyday actions; our greater aims in life, and our purpose in our community."