Grief

Sep 4, 202111 min read

Doctor Strange, Faust, Kierkegaard, and the Imploding Universe of Despair

Wisdom is drawn from Doctor Strange, Faust, and Kierkegaard regarding the nature of despair and embracing the enduring life of meaning.

Dec 23, 20204 min read

I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day

As a widowed father of six children, one of which died in infancy and the eldest of which was paralyzed fighting for the Union in the...

Dec 5, 20204 min read

The Sorrow that Makes for Joy

After six miscarriages and no children yet to raise, sorrow has begun to feel like home - not the despairing kind of sorrow that...

Nov 24, 20201 min read

A Sonnet for Selah Jane

The time between losses lengthening long, The waiting of wishful watching to wane, When then arose a soft and sweet new song, In...

Nov 2, 20204 min read

An Inconvenience Rightly Considered

Perhaps most importantly, I am learning to value the chaos that results in higher order, the disappointing upheavals that forge new horizons

Mar 31, 20205 min read

Sharing in the Suffering of Christ through Miscarriage

Yes, we struggle, but we press into the wounds of Christ, which are deep enough to hold every faithful sorrow and raise them to glorious joy

Oct 6, 20196 min read

"For I Know the Plans I Have for You..."

My initial attempts to publicly articulate my theological processing of our miscarriages.

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