Essays
Longer pieces of writing: essays, a conversation or two, and dispatches from the life of the Charismatic Episcopal Church. Newest first.
- The Vulnerable God
Jesse sits down with his uncle, Fr. Kenneth Tanner, to talk about his new book, Vulnerable God, and the God who descends beneath the deepest falling human.
- Witness
Five months, four gatherings, one word for all of it. What the Patriarch’s Council is, how consensus works, and what the chrism oil says about the whole communion.
- Jump in the River
A report from the second Three Streams Ignited conference: the River as the life of Christ, Fire Night, the first Three Streams Collective recording, and the call to go from a moment to a movement.
- Art Is for Beauty
A working definition: art is that which is made for its own sake, with beauty at its center. The crucifix is the proof.
- The Self-Improvement Gods
The influencers are right that we need saving; they are wrong about who can do it. A ship and a guitar, for anyone tired of being told to be better.
- I Heard the Sound of Rushing Rain
How the first Three Streams Ignited conference came to be, what happened at Saint Michael’s that week, and the storm at four in the morning that explained it.
- What Were You Made For?
You were made for four things: to be a son, a brother, a husband, and a father. That is the whole sermon. Everything else is commentary.