Travel is my church: Using ritual to turn your trip into a pilgrimage (Go on, make it weird!)
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- 13 min
This year I decided to become a writer

- 8 min
Kurangaituku: The case to make a surreal Maori myth the next book you read.


- 16 min
Seattle music history, by way of artists that I've behaved strangely around.


- 10 min
The Hero’s Journey: Narrative therapy to write yourself out of a dark black hole.


- 7 min
Leaving religion, playing outside: What's with the post-religious dirtbags sliding into my DMs?


- 6 min
Do you really need to pay attention to the news? In defense of selectively ignoring problems.


- 6 min
A time capsule from a year of post-traumatic growth: How losing faith made my life better.

- 6 min
I Hope I Was Wrong About Eternal Damnation: A free preview


- 7 min
What is a Dirtbag? An excerpt from "The Dirtbag's Guide to Life"


- 5 min
Big Butter Christ Crucified: Is it okay to laugh at someone’s sincerely held beliefs?


- 5 min
I Hope I Was Wrong About Eternal Damnation and how I feel about that.


- 11 min
Why do people accept authoritarians? Lessons from the psych unit


- 10 min
The Camino de Finisterre in a day: An ultra running love story.


- 5 min
Sufjan Stevens didn't read my book, but his stepdad liked it.


- 7 min
How Islamic punk rock helped me lose my Christian faith.


- 8 min
6 ways to support your favorite books (and also me).


- 17 min
Uncertainty sucks, but it's also normal. How to accept reality and move forward during crisis.

- 23 min
The Art of the Existential Crisis: How to survive despite all of this.


- 7 min
Dolly Parton, Donald Trump, and coming to terms with home.