Controlled Burn

Seminarian and postulant for the Episcopal priesthood. Here, I hope to explore, with courage: faith, justice, innovation, disruption, and how we live / serve in our fractured world - loving each other as Jesus loved us.

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Dancing where spiritual transformation and social change meet.

Provocations on theology, culture, ministry, politics, scripture, and justice to foment a sanctified ruckus.

pointing grieving people toward a more sustainable theology

As a leader, your boots should always be muddy if you want to know what is really going on with the people you lead or those you are elected to serve. Muddy Boots is a series of stories, opinions, and opportunities to keep your boots muddy.

Tips for the working traveler

6 brief personal recommendations of cool stuff.

A first-person account of my experience as the Attorney General for North Carolina. Totally free.

Brief reflections, essays, and the occasional podcast about faith, spirituality, and religion from a progressive Southern white male perspective.

A weekly newsletter about being fully alive as a creative person in the face of *gestures to the world* all this.

Future of Belonging explores disruptions, innovations and trends in how people will fulfill the universal need to belong as loneliness, alienation and displacement grow over the next generation.

Grace for fuck-ups. Prayer for the impious. A space for spiritual misfits.

One hundred book reviews a year, one month at a time.

The popular newsletter from writer Sarah Bessey with exclusive essays, the books worth reading, good things, special devotional series, theology deep dives, community conversations, and so much more.