I guess it may be helpful to explain why I decided to create this website. Many years ago, I had a blog . This was when I was in my early 30’s. I created it because I felt it was important for me to express my views regarding the disillusionment that I felt pertaining to fundamentalist evangelical Christianity. There were some new acquaintances that I had from my wife’s old church who were engaging with me on Facebook, but that platform isn’t very pragmatic or conducive for me to be able to adequately express my views. I was speaking with my older brother, Brian, and he recommended I create a blog and provided me with a few online companies that had platforms.

Aside from addressing my disillusionment – negative arguments – it ended up becoming a fruitful way for me to express aspects of my thinking that were more positive in nature – what I was for and not merely what I was against. Surprisingly, the blog became something of a mixture of essays, sermons, and even poetry. My wife and I had left her old church and began attending an Episcopal Church, where I started to contemplate ordination. The blog coincided with that time in my life. Without going into too much detail, and for no reason pertaining to the Episcopal Church, we stopped attending and no longer belong to any church or religious community.

To be frank, the primary inspiration behind my writing suffered because of this. It didn’t help that other priorities took over during the subsequent years. From military service, my struggle to find meaningful employment, attempts at higher education, and political involvement, it just became difficult to find the time to write and/or to know what I wanted or felt the need to write about. In terms of substance, I didn’t know if I wanted to continue down the road of writing about spiritual things, political things, brief reflections, essays, or poetry. Even now, this is the challenge that I face with writing.

Flannery O’Connor famously said that she would write to find out what she was thinking. I think that’s more in line with any honest reason I could give for why I created this page. Writing has always helped me clarify my thoughts. For those who happen to stumble upon this page, that’s the best theme that I can provide, because that’s the best and most sincere answer I can tell myself. It is through the rambling that I hope to find my true self.