About the author

Educator. Clergy. Wanderer between faith, doubt, and renewal.

I write at the intersection of professional experience, theological reflection, and a lifelong search for meaning.

For over twenty years, I have taught history, philosophy, and English at the secondary level. In the classroom, my work isn’t just about dates and definitions, it’s about helping students wrestle with the big questions: What is truth? What does justice require of us? How do we construct identity, shoulder responsibility, and live a life of purpose? Holding a Master of Education has deepened my appreciation for how people learn, mature, and make sense of their lived experience, which is a foundation that deeply informs how I think about spiritual formation, moral development, and communal care.

My vocation as a member of the clergy gives me a practical and theological framework for connecting the altar to the street—linking worship with the urgent needs of the wider world. Through my work in deacon formation, I stay in constant conversation with people serving faithfully across an ever-shifting religious landscape.

At the same time, I write as someone who exists both inside and outside institutional church life:

• I have been deeply formed by Christian worship, Scripture, ancient rituals, and the warmth of community.
• I have also known doubt, disappointment, institutional pressure, anxiety, depression, exclusion, and the subtle trap of confusing religious performance with true faithfulness.

I know firsthand the profound comfort faith communities can offer and the real wounds they can inflict. I do not write as a detached critic, nor as an apologist for inherited traditions. I write as someone anchored in the church’s potential for renewal, holding its present reality accountable to the love it proclaims.

Thanks for being here. I hope these words offer space for your own questions.