Spiritual Mutt

It's popular. Way popular. So of course the critics come out. Yes, it's about the Trinity. Yes, it's 'pop' theology....

Springtime in Ohio. The original sanctuary. The original congregation.

In 1992, my addictions and subsequent wanderlust were beginning to manifest. Big time. I was making good money at a job I swore I'd...

God is a trip. Sometimes you can pick up a book and you don't know why. You may even try to read it. But it doesn't click. So it...

When I was in high school I used to write stories. Aside from the "porno stories" I used to write in middle school (!), in high s...

My ego would prefer to be a sex addict. Being a porn addict sounds sleazy, cheap, creepy, perverted. At least as a sex addict you've ...

Any Korn fans out there? Brian Head Welch discusses what led to his leaving Korn. The paradox of Christianity is that it brings the toughes...

The worst thing about addiction is ultimately self-absorption. In the case of a damaged soul, the damage, that rupture, the leak in the dam...

Pornography is not about sex. Sex is the means. It is about power whether it be about taking power or having power taken. There is no lo...

Even before being exposed to pornographic magazines, an incident occurred that had a tremendous impact on what was once an innocent mind. ...

It's 1982. I'm in 8th grade. Fourteen years old. My pornography addiction has been growing for four years now. Of course I didn...

A question had popped up in my Facebook asking for 15 albums that changed my life and to list them within 15 minutes. I made the list and ...

The photo shows the inside of my high school notebook. Actual beer cans, cut in half and inserted. Actual Jack Daniel label. This whol...

When a wound from the past takes you back thirty years and when that wound is exposed, opened wide to the bright light of day, and then heal...

10 years old. Friend's basement. Older brother. Abusive home. Flashlight. Laughter. Humiliation. Penthouse. Playboy. Innocence lost...

Sometimes it takes a day like yesterday to get perspective on where we are. By the end of the day I was really sick of me. So of course th...