Recent Essays

These recent essays and articles explore faith, feminism, and parenting through creative storytelling—using everything from Berenstain Bears to biblical narratives to illuminate personal growth, neuroscience, and how we make meaning in everyday life.

A Funeral, an ICU, and the God Who Stays
How I learned that healing isn’t the proof of goodness — presence is.
Oct 17, 2025

Decision 2024 and Rabbinical Law
Should the Bible help us make political decisions?
Nov 1, 2024

The Flipped Lid: Neurobiology Light
A brain advocate.
Oct 27, 2023

Bible Club — David’s Break For It
At Bible Club, we just didn’t have the time to run relay races and explain foreskins.
Oct 7, 2023

The Big Road Race
Maybe you know a 4 year old who has hit rock bottom, but thankfully I don’t.
Oct 4, 2023

Bible Club: David — Is this your fight?
Yesterday, Patricia picked me up at 3pm and it was raining. We both wondered if this was a fools errand.
Sep 27, 2023

I Married a Feminist
I married a feminist — and didn’t know it. I didn’t know it because I was not a feminist.
Sep 25, 2023

Bible Club: David — Shepherd to King
Patricia, and I have this thing we do on Tuesday nights — We call it Bible Club. It’s with a ragtag group of about 25 kids.
Sep 25, 2023

The Six Blind Men & The Elephant
Six truths, one elephant, and the wisdom of listening
Sep 22, 2023