Tag: faith

I Have Lived Four Lives. My Forties Are All of Them at Once.

Family, then friends, then yourself, then a family of your own. Each decade of life has its own center of gravity, until the forties arrive and ask you to live all four at once. This essay argues those decades were never separate lives but an apprenticeship: belonging, chosen loyalty, self-knowledge, and responsibility, all called on in the same afternoon. It takes the honest objection seriously (maybe the pattern is just hindsight), then lands on what the forties ask of us, closing with a mantra my mom carved into a plaque for my thirtieth birthday.

History Is a Theory. Start Treating It Like One.

History is presented as fact. It is not. It is a collection of theories, interpretations, and narratives shaped by the same flawed, self-interested humans who run the world today. If we can watch governments manipulate the record in real time in 2026, it is naive to think it was any different a thousand or five thousand years ago. This essay argues that dead languages cannot be definitively translated, that archaeological certainty is constantly being revised, and that even events captured on video remain disputed. Intellectual honesty about the past is not cynicism. It is simply the truth.

Do You Care About Truth… or Winning?

This essay argues that the pursuit of truth should be the foundation of all serious intellectual conversations, especially in the Information Age where facts can be verified instantly. It makes the case that debates should embrace AI as a real-time tool for fact-checking and clarification, shifting the goal away from winning arguments and toward discovering objective reality. Truth should not depend on wit, memory, or rhetorical skill, but on evidence, verification, and the willingness to update beliefs when confronted with new information.

The Most Famous Man in History… and the 20-Year Disappearance No One Talks About

This essay explores the uncomfortable historical gap in the life of Jesus known as the “Lost Years,” the nearly two decades between childhood and the start of his ministry that lack any documented record. It questions why such a massive absence of evidence is rarely scrutinized despite Jesus being the most influential figure in history. The piece argues for applying the same intellectual standards to theology that we use everywhere else in life, and ultimately makes the case that morality does not require ancient authority, but can stand firmly on secular human values like empathy, compassion, and human flourishing.

Prompt Your Beliefs to Death (If They Can Survive, They’re Worth Keeping)

Most people don’t fear being wrong — they fear admitting that what they’ve believed for decades may never have been true. This essay is about confronting that fear with curiosity instead of ego. It’s about using AI not to confirm what you already think, but to challenge your assumptions, push against your blind spots, and exit the echo chamber you didn’t even realize you were in. Prompt wisely — it might just change everything.

The Mirror of Faith: Sam Harris and the Case for Universal Understanding

Nearly every monotheistic theist who has ever existed believes that their god is the one true god. In his brilliant work, Letter to a Christian Nation, author & thinker, Sam Harris, simply & eloquently describes why that belief is simply not correct.

Where Is The Love?

Listening to my Wake Up! playlist recently this lyric from the Black Eyed Peas hit me in a profound way because each line speaks to something I have written about