Witness, NM

Thoughts on the Solstice Christ is in our midst! He is and ever shall be!  “My soul magnifies the Lord, And my spirit has rejoiced in God my Savior. For He has regarded the lowly state of His maidservant; For behold, henceforth all generations will call me blessed” (Luke 1:46-48). Today is the Winter solstice,…

An Unenlightened Digression from a Delayed Denver Layover Christ is in our midst! He is and ever shall be! Being sober in Reno is like being underage in New Orleans, there’s fun stuff to do, but you don’t really get the full experience. When I was younger, I thought it’d be funny to move to…

Snake Oil or: It’s Only Poison if You Think It Is Prosperity gospel has no basis in any faith-based tradition, it is not a spiritual successor to the Protestant reformation, and it is certainly not apostolic. Prosperity gospel is a part of the self-help industry, and uniquely American, having its foundation in this country’s particular…

I real-life it, I spill vices Christ is in our midst! He is and ever shall be!  “Brethren, join in following my example, and note those who so walk, as you have us for a pattern. For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are…

Struggling Toward Death Christ is in our midst! He is and ever shall be!  “For if the firstfruit is holy, the lump is also holy; and if the root is holy, so are the branches. And if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted among them,…

Another college essay with nowhere to go Peggy McIntosh’s “Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack of White Privilege” takes a novel approach to the concept of the hidden benefits of living-while-white that, for the year of its publishing, must have been quite groundbreaking. There is no doubt this essay was written by McIntosh because it needed to…

Ergot or Erasure? The Reformation took power away from the church, arguably a good thing especially during the time, however that power became distributed to the hands of the individual, who, for all their credit trying to get out from the subjugation under the wing of Catholicism simply redirected that oppressive nature toward themselves and…

A Halloween Happenstance Post [Writer’s Note: This piece and the follow-up were written for my history class on September 11, 2022. Enjoy!] The Salem Witch Trials founded this country. This event is a historical benchmark that paved the way for this nation’s own contentious relationship it has always had with those the majority labels as…

Still trailing behind me “If a person withdraws from the world, then he will discover its stench, whereas one who wanders about in it clothes himself with the rags of worldly delights and pleasures as if with a glorious garment. There is nothing sweeter than to be an outcast in the house of God rather…