I'm a naturally curious person. I like to find things out, investigate, and dig into obscurity sometimes. I did this with AI recently. Not because I needed to or had some desire to make my writing something. But because I wanted to see what would happen. To be honest, I wasn't fully ready for the response I got. A few months ago I fed a machine about four years of my own writing. Sermons, blog posts, the odd half-finished thing I never published. Then I asked it for a paragra

I was asked to preach at a wedding a few years back, and the couple wanted Ephesians 5. Every pastor who's done more than a handful of weddings knows the particular flinch that request produces… half honor, half dread… because you know you're about to stand in front of a room that's heard this passage wielded as a leash far more often than they've heard it preached as love that empties itself to the point of death. You spend the drive over rehearsing how you're going to get t

It’s that time of year again. Where we celebrate the holidays and gather with our families and friends, open gifts, drink weird...

The feeling is starting to creep back in. The swirling in my gut. The long stares at my headboard. My feet moving slower. A gnawing sense...