Sworn beneath the old gods (and new).
Carried like iron under the cloak.
Personal writing on faith, family, politics, and life. Discussion is welcome. Debate is not the purpose.
Faith · 2026-02-24
A virtue list can become a costume faster than a man notices. Capability. Courage. Hospitality. Restraint. Oath-keeping. Honest work. Put the words in a row and they look like a religion already. They are clean, serious, and useful. [more]
Faith · 2025-11-25
The dangerous part of prayer is not asking. The dangerous part comes afterward, when the words have been spoken and the old excuse is still sitting there, alive and patient. A man asks for courage and then has to decide whether he meant courage or rescue. [more]
Faith · 2023-02-21
A gift does not stay clean in the hand. The moment it passes to another person, it changes the air between them. Food, money, shelter, a tool, a ride, a cup poured at the right time, a spare room, an introduction, an offering set down before a god: none of these things remains only itself after the giving. [more]
Faith · 2022-02-08
A guest changes the room before he says a word. The chair moves. Food is counted differently. The stove, the table, the good cup, the spare blanket, the tone of the conversation, the path to the bathroom, the volume of the house after dark: all of it adjusts around the fact that someone has crossed from outside to inside. [more]
Faith · 2021-09-07
A house can tell when it has been treated as a storage unit. The sink gathers evidence. The floor keeps its own record. Hinges complain. A loose step waits until someone carrying laundry finds it with the wrong foot. None of this requires poetry. [more]
Faith · 2021-06-15
I set the offering bowl down before it holds anything. Olive, ash, and pine under the fingers, three woods joined into one working object that has already outlasted several clever theories about what an offering is supposed to purchase. [more]
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