Non-theist Christian and elder in Community of Christ. I have Mormon roots and aspirations to do better with justice and peacemaking—especially in the digital sphere but also in Lexington, Kentucky, the U.S., and the world more broadly.

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I’m trying to succinctly describe a Latter-day Saint “solemn assembly” in an academic manuscript, and it’s a lot harder than I thought it was going to be.




Emailed my Kentucky General Assembly representative this morning to express concern about a bill and got a personal answer back by afternoon. Way better than responses I get from US House/Senate.




Reading today’s edition of the Lexington Herald-Leader makes me glad I subscribe to a local paper. Lots of holding our state and federal officials accountable; plus, I’m starting to have some favorite local columnists.




Reading the news today, I am reminded of last month, when after finishing the fantastic “Believed” podcast, I angrily covered up John Engler’s signature on my diploma with a sticky note. It’s still there.




f— types: [“media”] layout: book date: 2023-07-06T21:42:23-04:00 title: “📚 bookblog: ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ for Born Both: An Intersex Life, by Hida Viloria” tags: [“Born Both”,“Hida Viloria”,“intersex”,“libraries”,“LGBTQ”] media: [“book”] titles: [“Born Both: An Intersex Life”] creators: [“Hida Viloria”] series: [""] franchise: [""] ratings: ["❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️"] params: entry: I finally read this book weeks after picking it up from a local library and knowing I’d enjoy it. Viloria’s life story (like so many others’ stories) casually destroys sex and gender binaries.




types: [“macro”] date: 2023-11-17T08:25:03-05:00 title: “songs that should be hymns but aren’t (yet?)” tags: [“Les Cowboys fringants”,“Peace Salaam Shalom”,“Exploring Community of Christ Basic Beliefs”,“Community of Christ”,“hope”,“Karl Tremblay”,“existential dread”,“faith transition”] Over the summer, I wrote about a favorite Community of Christ hymn. Without repeating the entire post here, one of my favorite things about it is that it was never written as a hymn. Rather, it was a song written by a folk song as a call for peace that got adopted into the Community of Christ hymnbook in 2013.