I have found myself blessed to have had the opportunity lately to do a lot of work on my spirituality in the last year or so. I have been guided in this by some beautiful mentors including Richard Rohr, Thomas Merton, Julian of Norwich, Dorothy Day, Ian Cron, Suzanne Stabile, Joan Chittister, and many others. I have grown in my relationship with my wife in deep and powerful ways. I have become a far better father than I even thought I’d be capable of; certainly more patient and loving then I ever knew how to be before. I owe much of this growth in spirituality and self understanding to the Enneagram and would welcome any and all inquiries you might have about that tool. As my spirituality and theology have grown so too has my political understanding as well. I find myself increasingly radicalized. My faith can allow no less than a complete overhaul of most of our political and economic systems. I understand the USA to be a captured political system that is essentially an oligarchy. The only way to fix this is to undo Citizens United and get all money out of politics. I also understand both the Democratic and Republican parties to captured by neoliberal/neoconservative right-wing interests whose primary purpose is to distract the population with culture wars while ensuring the wealthy, landed (frankly, nobility) class remains in power.

I have also come to understand that one of the ways my “personality” (I am an ONE on the Enneagram) exerts itself is in a desire to understand problems in order to fix them and then share that understanding/solution with others. Guess what the new direction this blog is going to be going in is? 🙂 Going forward, this will be a place for me to share what I am learning about the Enneagram, theology, parenting, relationships, pastoring, politics, economics, and the intersection of these things. I will, at some point, better organize the Narrative Lectionary resources in a clearly labeled section of this site. I will also try to clearly organize and label the topics of my various posts so you can peruse what you might be more interested in and ignore other things (though if I challenge you, don’t ignore that!).