Only recently have I begun to see change not as an interruption to life, but as life itself. The sooner you make peace with that, the lighter everything becomes. In times of plenty, I remember there will also be seasons of want. When things are bad, I know this shit won’t last forever.

If the aim of the spiritual life is awakening rather than punishment or reward, fear loses its authority. If God is not fundamentally external and obsessed with outward expression, but encountered within, then there is nothing to bargain with and no one to appease.

Americans are in an abusive relationship with a pedophile and his flying monkey porn star wife. Every day we wake up to more lies, more threats, more gaslighting, and more violence from two of the most malignant human beings on earth.

Evangelical Easter isn’t a perennial story of necessary death and resurrection; it’s often a promotional event. Resurrection is the ultimate culture war win. Jesus doesn’t descend; he freaking launches.

Jesus embodied a form of faith unfathomable to fundamentalism. He understood the more you know, the more you don’t know. The looser your grip on right and wrong, the greater your grasp of transformative wisdom.

God did not kill Jesus. Jesus was killed by law and order allied with religion.