archive of blog posts
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Unintentional #Exvangelical
I often read about social movements on Twitter long before they hit any sort of mainstream discussion. If you can put in the time to curate your Twitter following, you can find quite a world of stimulating (and sometimes asinine) discussion. One subset of people I follow happen to be Christians or ex-Christians who are…
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Yo-ho, let’s Kondo!
Marie Kondo made a splash a year or so ago when she brought her style of de-cluttering spaces into the mainstream with her book (and website and Instagram and … and….) Kondo’s services command a waiting list a mile long in Japan, but for the rest of us, her book breaks down her radical, two-pronged…
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A few thoughts on the whole gun situation
Backdrop: Parkland high school shooting, yet another in 2018, in a long string of school shootings for the past couple decades, except this time the kids are fighting mad. Millions of articles about gun control, gun rights, mental health, white terrorism, the loss of the American male, and more. I have a simple proposal for…
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Recipe: Sriracha Maple Pork Chops & Sides
One pan! SRIRACHA MAPLE PORK CHOPS, CRISPY SWEET POTATO ROUNDS, and BRUSSELS SPROUTS – Lori’s Dinner Experiment #3627 I’m sorry it took me so long to get on the sriracha train. I was dumb. I will happily admit this as I shove another spicy-sweet bite into my mouth. This quick one-pan dinner experiment came together…
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Finding Flannery among the Three Billboards
Another way that you love your enemy is this: When the opportunity presents itself for you to defeat your enemy, that is the time which you must not do it. There will come a time, in many instances, when the person who hates you most, the person who has misused you most, the person who…





