I live in San Antonio and write stuff because I really like to write stuff. This is the place where you can find the stuff I've written, if you want to.

Rediscovering myself

Friday, March 16th. The 24th day of Lent. What an amazing thing this Lenten writing discipline has been for me. The story so far: Depressed and desperate, I launch my anonymous Salon blog in December of 2002. I wasn’t sure why I did it. I had a sense that in this medium I could tell…

What you say

Thursday, March 15th. The 23rd day of Lent. Have you noticed that whatever you say about the world has a tendency to come true in your life and in the lives of the people you know? Do not take lightly this most sacred of human burdens. Gordon

Rising up to cold space?

Wednesday, March 14th. The 22nd day of Lent. I suppose there are numerous ways this could play itself out, but the point is that you and I cannot know what realities exist beyond our feeble powers of observation. Voyager has been traveling for 35 years and is just now leaving our solar system. And it’s…

Station Three: Jesus is condemned.

Saturday, March 10th. The 18th day of Lent. I have been asked to write three prayers for the 2012 Covenant stations of the cross, which will be displayed and open to the public at Covenant Baptist Church during Holy Week. I will use my writing time the next three nights for this honored task. I…

Filioque Protest

Friday, March 9th. The 17th day of Lent. It’s been an interesting thing for this lifelong Baptist to be attending an Episcopal Church. I can’t say if we will join. I have a lot of ambivalence about church in general these days. I wonder what percentage of what goes on in churches is anything Jesus…