I’ve had a twenty year search for radical spirituality. I suppose you could call me a mystic.

I believe that the unseen world is filled with spirits of movement, passion, and intrigue. I believe that we have the potential to experience this unseen realm, and that humanity is designed to interact with this invisible universe around us.

Yet, while describing myself as a mystic, I am highly guarded about losing my sense of practical balance. I love common people with common sense. To me the common sense man is the Solomon of this world. He carries the wisdom of the ages in pithy, homespun tales and quips. He tells it like it is, and quite naturally - apart from the delicacies and subtleties of higher learning, knows how to make life work right. The common man is the unsung hero of my story, and to his practical wisdom I aspire.

In these same twenty years, I have passionately sought out intense practicality. With a bit of a stretch, I suppose you could call me a pragmatist also.
Ultimately, this is my goal: To learn to be radically spiritual, and intensely practical at the same time. Is there any reason why I can’t have both? That question is the source of my inspiration for study, for life, and for adventure.

This set of writings is the outworking of my search, and it is my invitation to you to join me on it. As I begin the writing, I still (after twenty years) begin with questions, and with practical skepticism over the possibility of perfectly intertwining two styles of living which have been traditionally seen as competing and opposite lifestyles. Perhaps together we can bring our questions to the road of life, and work it out as we travel.