Articles & Essays

Having now delivered a public lecture that, because of the internet, is now relatively "immortal", I am now on record as having spoken about "big T Trauma" versus "little T trauma". In the weeks since that lecture and in the introspective pools I've been wading…

White supremacist. It's a term I used in my previous post that I should not have used without much more nuancing. But, use it I did. In my pain and anger, I labeled Regent College as a white supremacist institution, and have used the term…

(Author's Note June 23, 2023: I have since reconsidered some of the words I have used here, and would direct you towards my apology and explanation, which can be found here: https://eastgateproject.ca/an-apology/) ********** At one time, I swore I wouldn't work for a white supremacist…

S’io credesse che mia risposta fosseA persona che mai tornasse al mondo,Questa fiamma staria senza piu scosse.Ma percioche giammai di questo fondoNon torno vivo alcun, s’i’odo il vero,Senza tema d’infamia ti rispondo. Dante Aligheri, The Inferno “If I but thought that my response were madeto…

At the midpoint of summer and with a predominant strain of COVID that seems less deadly for the vaccinated, it can feel as though the pandemic is far from us. So, with more people outdoors and greater comfort overall with the increasing sense that the…

Father's Day has passed. My social media, as sparingly as I use it, is filled with tributes from people about the fathers in their lives. My own children made me cards and coupons for naps and video games and "no whining" days. I used the…

(To the reader: Mobley is not a fictional person. I wish he were. But this is the world we live in, and these are the words I want to say. Feel free to share this with the Mobleys you know.) Dear Mobley, I've been meaning…

I've gained so much from going to graduate school that I feel guilty saying this, but I've lost something precious along the way. My first therapist told me she thought my struggles felt like my being "refined." This was just post-90s, and contemporary Christian ballads…