Hello, and welcome to The Twin Tree Project! I am excited to launch this space—a sanctuary for reflection, creativity, and personal growth. This project is not just about me but also about you, the reader, as we explore together what it means to cultivate inspiration, embrace transformation, and find beauty in the path forward.
Authenticity Unveiled: Pick a Side (No, Really, That’s the Problem)
I left a comment online. A simple observation about cognitive dissonance. What came back wasn’t conversation — it was tribal defense, projected motives, and the near-total collapse of nuanced thinking. This is what that looks like, why it happens, and what it’s actually costing us.
What the Desert Kept: The Unbound Word | Passing the Scroll
These aren’t questions that destabilize Scripture. What they destabilize is a shallow relationship with Scripture. A faith that can’t survive honest examination probably needed, and still needs, to be examined.
Authenticity Unveiled: The “Professor” Problem: Tucker, Jiang, and the Art of Demoralization
“Professor” Jiang holds a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature. No advanced degrees. No university professorship. The title is a brand — and borrowed authority, accepted without examination, is one of the oldest manipulation tools there is. Before you argue about what was said, you need to know who said it, and why that label was chosen.
Grace | Sunday Sessions
Dr. Frank Turek asked on X yesterday, “how would you describe grace to someone?” I couldn’t help but write I a long-winded reply to that post, because I learned loved grace the hard way, and I feel so humbled when I am reminded of the cost of it. Today’s Sunday Session is how I would describe grace.
What the Desert Kept: The Unbound Word | Where I Stand
This is the part of this series where I stop circling the evidence and tell you plainly where all of this has landed for me. Not a conclusion to the questions, per se, but the position I’ve taken inside of them.
What the Desert Kept: The Unbound Word | Where the Thread Held
The Dead Sea Scrolls put real pressure on things I thought I understood — canon, transmission, messianic expectation. But pressure is not the same as rupture. A thread under tension is still a thread. This is where it held.
What the Desert Kept: The Unbound Word | What the Scrolls Complicate
The Dead Sea Scrolls don’t undermine the faith. They complicate the comfortable version of it — and that’s not the same thing. Canon fluidity, textual variants, messianic plurality: none of these are hidden, none are invented, and none of them get to stay safely unexamined. Part 3 of What the Desert Kept: The Unbound Word.
What the Desert Kept: The Unbound Word | My Father’s Questions
Part 2 of What the Desert Kept: The Unbound Word traces the questions my father couldn’t put down — about canon, suppression, and the distance between institutional Christianity and the faith Scripture actually describes. It also traces what those questions cost him, what they planted in me without my knowing, and what it took for me to finally understand the inheritance he left behind. This one got personal. I think it needed to.
What the Desert Kept: The Unbound Word | The Discovery
In 1947, a young Bedouin shepherd threw a rock into a cave near the Dead Sea and heard something break. What was inside those clay jars would become the most significant manuscript discovery in modern history — and would take decades of scholarly struggle, controversy, and one very persistent librarian to finally reach the rest of the world. This is Part One of What the Desert Kept: The Unbound Word, a five-part deep dive into the Dead Sea Scrolls — their discovery, their contents, the community that preserved them, and the Scriptural threads that held across nearly two thousand years of silence.
When Leaves Aren’t Enough: The Real Work of Spiritual Formation | Daily Bread
Spiritual appearance comes naturally. Showing up, saying the right things, checking the right boxes — from a distance, it all looks like faith. But Jesus wasn’t fooled by a leafy tree with nothing underneath, and He isn’t fooled by us either. In this promised deep dive from the Leaves but No Fruit post, we get honest about the gap between looking formed and actually being formed — what creates it, why it’s so easy to miss, and what real transformation actually looks like from the inside out. Spoiler: it’s slower, harder, and more honest than most of us expect.
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