Here are a few words about me.

Let’s face it, meeting people online is always a bit overwrought, especially when it concerns someone who had the gaul to put their name in the URL.  

In the spirit of full-disclosure, I’m not famous. I’m not even Internet famous, and this website isn’t an attempt to remedy that.  It is, however, an effort in making unbroken eye-contact with sacredness, even if my (and your) eyes start to water. 

In short (because you're a busy person): I'm a licensed psychotherapist specializing in marriage and family therapy, I’m a writer and I used to be a Baptist pastor. I have a psychotherapy practice I share with my wife where I do individual, couple, and whole family therapy. You can find out more about our work here.

I also do coaching work with pastors, non-profit leaders, businesspeople and entire institutions in order to uncover better ways of living, working, communicating, and being human together. In addition to my coaching and therapy work, I speak, preach, teach, lead retreats, and host seminars on everything from adolescent development, to the impacts of hyper-Capitalism on mental and spiritual well-being in America, to the ways in which Christian spirituality can actually do something interesting in the world, and even to the small things like marriage, and having kids, and trying not to murder each other on the Internet (and I guess in real life, too). You can get in touch with me about that sort of thing here.

I wrote a book with Broadleaf Press about the ways that creative political and prophetic resistance, counterintuitively, begins with a radical sort of okayness within ourselves, God and the world around us. You can read more about that here.

Lastly, I have a wife, son, and pug who are continually the most interesting things about me. I live in Knoxville, TN, and will never apologize for loving Cracker Barrel, Dolly Parton, and expensive chairs I pretend are comfortable.

You can find more of my writing in a few other places, like here, here and here.