When I was about 40, I had a midlife crisis and decided to go to seminary to become a Minister of Word and Sacrament in the Evangelical Catholic (Lutheran) church. I grew up Roman Catholic. And then I drifted away after getting mad at the church, lived a bit, got married, had a kid, and drifted back. I had a conversion experience in the middle of a Roman Catholic mass, and then I met some Lutherans who taught me about God's radically scandalous grace. I knew I'd found my theological home and signed up for seminary on the double. I now consider myself theologically Lutheran and liturgically catholic with a waywardly Celtic Contemplative earthy and mystical spirituality.

I've been sharing my whimsical ramblings online for more than a decade. My work has shown up in Huffington Post, Observer, Crossings, Good Men Project, and more. Some of my stuff is good. Some of it isn't so much. Either way, I hope you get a good word out of it.

*The ideas shared here are my own, not necessarily those of my denomination, the ELCA (though sometimes they do overlap).