Category: Musings
As it sounds.
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Dear Friend, It’s been a rather long hiatus for the Sibilant Sword, especially on the fiction side. I have been publishing musings on theology with some consistency over on my Substack, but the last year during my Masters has left me less time for specific fiction work (except a full edit on the first Siegyrd…
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Caveat Emptor Before I dive into the meat of a post which I converted from hand written notes, a little background is necessary. I am deep in writing my final masters thesis for an MPhil in Theology from the University of Cambridge. A lot is at stake as my score will determine whether I get…
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If you found out tomorrow you would have to leave the military (or whatever profession you are in), hang up your uniforms, turn in your gear, and let your clearance lapse – what would that do to who you are? Would you find yourself lost, confused, discouraged? Would you be excited? Would you feel like…
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A Child’s Beginnings Some of my earliest reads in life were Narnia and Lord of the Rings. My mother read C.S. Lewis to us when I was quite small, but then I didn’t do much reading at all for quite a few years. I have spoken before about moving from Colorado to South Dakota when…
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2023 in Review I started this blog during a short trip to Colorado this summer in the prayer that perhaps some day I would be able to expand it. In the last six months I have produced 61 posts totaling almost 95,000 words across many musings, thoughts, stories, and heartaches. That is, to me, immense.…
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She kicked out her hip and leaned heavily on her chair, shifting her nose up and setting her glasses just so on her face as she uttered in an exasperated, haughty tone, “He should’ve known better!” Her eyes were limned with pleading, her posture sunken, “Doesn’t he know better?” She stood tall, hands on hips,…
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People love to tell you how to be brave, but today I am going to speak of something for which I am an actual expert – how to become a coward. This is an area in which I am in an embarrassment of riches of experience. If you haven’t yet noticed my love for definitions,…
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Walking through Denver International Airport is like an homage to all the places I have lived and been. B28 Honolulu – where I live for now. B20 San Diego – where I was only a week ago for Comic Con, and a month or so before that for work. B24 LA – a passthrough on…
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I have been blessed to have amazing discussions recently with my family and friends about mental, physical, and spiritual health, so this prompt comes at an apt time. I will one day put a more comprehensive explanation together, but this will overview the general strategy. That strategy begins with a single critical assumption – everything…
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Luke 20:45 – 21:5-9 In the past two weeks, I have listened to two different sermons on Luke 21 and the so-called Widow’s might (or mite depending on who you are). A conversation from many years ago with my sister keeps needling my conscience about this passage, though, and I would like to address what…