GOOD NEWS

I was having problems with the wifi this weekend.

Of course it’s the weekend when I want to start what I am calling a Good News Bulletin. *The artwork I have been sharing on IG.

If I was still a pastor I would make a joke about “not today devil” at this moment from the stage. 

Since I am not a pastor let’s just assume it’s God trying to interfere lol. 
The last thing God wants is people realizing he was just a computer program. 

My son came into my bedroom this morning at 6am and said:

“Good news dad, the light is white on the router.”

“That IS good news son!”

He isn’t interested in this newsletter, he just wants to build on Minecraft today.

I got to the coffee shop this morning and realized I forgot my card, I was the only one in there so she told me not to worry about it.

That’s good news for me.

She doesn’t know this yet but I am going to give her all the cash I have in the bowl at the house as a tip.

That’s good news for her.

I am using the term Good News as a theological and cultural critique. 

I am using the word bulletin to highlight my ideas, and I miss the old church bulletins I would put my gum in as a kid.

Bad news is the most profitable energy and enterprise to enter our life.
We turn the tv on, it’s bad, extreme, polarizing, demanding, and divisive. 
We open our Bibles and God couldn’t even keep it together past Genesis chapter 3.

The Good News that I am advocating for is that we can reject this framework altogether. 

I have been having a series of conversations with a friend at Apple who is an engineer. 

We have been discussing how the brain is just a computer, one that runs its initial software based on its original coding.

This is contextual, epistemological, and also practical. 

Try running today’s Adobe suite on Windows 95. 

We are in the process of updating as a society, and we are realizing that most ideas are processed and not our own.

When we look at the back of the box of the ingredients of our beliefs, it’s a lot of words we can’t pronounce. 

How do we remove an ingredient?

By rejection and acceptance.

By asking ourselves, where have we been wrong in the past? 

Ideas that start with division create division, and its nature becomes its only interest.

It will offer solutions to a problem that it created.

Like a rattlesnake getting spooked by its own rattler, because it saw its own shadow.

We f*** up when we took the side of God instead of Adam & Eve.

We took the side of David, not the side of Bathsheba.
We took the side of Poseidon, not the side of Medusa.

Theology is asking yourself what you would have done in their situation; spirituality is when you are honest with your answers.

Transcendence is when you are admitting to what you are doing now.

I side with my fellow man and our journey.
I side with my limited understanding, my limited love, and choose to share it.

I have a friend that hosts a car meet up once a month. It’s called ALL MAKES WELCOME. 

That is GOOD NEWS.

When I came out from the school of thought that is Christianity (the computer program),

I realized that the world is not black and white, it is also yellow and blue, orange and red.

It isn’t just BMW 3 series or Porsche 911s.

It is also Kia Optimas.
Chrysler PT Cruisers.
It’s a reliable Toyota 4Runner. 

It’s me and you on our commutes to work, to jobs, doing things for ourselves and others. 

It’s sometimes pretty, sometimes grueling, but in the end it’s always beautiful. 

I keep having this thought: what if this is as far as humans have ever made it?
Like, what if there really isn’t anything better than this.

You in your existence, at this moment in time on 7/27/25 never happens again.
You are as far as we have made it, I am as far as we have made it.

This moment we are sharing over email is our great revelation. Sharing this time and space together.

Let’s not be prisoners of our times or our past, let’s be pioneers for a better today.

When I would end sermons I would sometimes tell people not to bow their heads.
I would say heads up, and I would put my hand out and I would pray a blessing. 

It was powerful. 
Because we could see each other.

I see you this morning.
I know you see me.

Head up.
Light is coming in.
The darkness is not your enemy.
There is no division.
It’s just you.
It’s just me.

ALL MAKES WELCOME.

That is F*** GOOD NEWS.