Writing & thinking
Essays from Bob on freedom, faith, and human change.
Long-form reflections adapted from Bob’s public writing on identity, spiritual formation, abuse dynamics, and thinking differently.
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The Most Powerful Tool
A reflection on communication as a tool that shifts perception, belief, and the part of the human soul where change happens.
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The Engines of Change
A therapist’s reflection on why change depends on relationship, problem definition, communication, and emotional intelligence.
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Actual Intelligence
Bob contrasts artificial intelligence with the deeper human capacity to imagine, create, and see what does not yet exist.
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Conundrums of Communication
A reflection on why transformational experiences can be difficult to language, reproduce, and communicate without reducing them.
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Your Brain Makeover
Six ways to help the brain move out of survival mode and into creativity, congruence, and meaningful change.
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Wake Up
A call to look beyond the world pulled over our eyes and awaken to more reality, meaning, identity, and purpose.
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Thinking about Thinking
Bob explores thinking as an expansive practice, asking how many perspectives and processes we can open up to.
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AI and Eddie Van Halen
A reflection on AI, creativity, presence, and the courage to become yourself instead of outsourcing your uniqueness.
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What is “Real”
A reflection on perception, neuroscience, and why meaningful change requires new thought processes, not just new information.
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Religious Systems and the Flow of Life
A reflection on Jesus, religious control, and the difference between behavior management and life flowing from God.
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The Tree of Life and the Source of Christian Living
Bob contrasts the Tree of Life with the knowledge of good and evil, asking what source Christian life is meant to flow from.
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Deconstruction, Reformation, and the Gospel of the Kingdom
A longer reflection on church failures, deconstruction, and the Gospel of the Kingdom as available power rather than demanded performance.
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Deconstruction as Reformation
Bob frames deconstruction as a long-brewing reformation responding to systems built on knowledge, willpower, and platform authority.
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Heaven, Hell, and the Life Jesus Offers
A different way to answer hard faith questions by shifting from destination and comparison to spiritual life and present reality.
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Clinical Terms Need Care
A licensed therapist’s caution about using words like triggered, narcissist, gaslit, and abuse with precision and care.
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Grooming, Propaganda, and Seeing One Another
Bob connects the dynamics of grooming and propaganda, warning how fear and anger can be used to divide people from one another.
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Spiritual Abuse, Restoration, and the Victim’s Experience
A thread on spiritual abuse, platform restoration, and why real change centers the value and experience of those harmed.
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God With Us Reverses Expectations
A Christmas reflection on the manger, spiritual power, and how Jesus reverses expectations about influence and authority.
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Social Media, Contempt, and Thinking Differently
Bob reflects on social media’s power to connect, polarize, shape attention, and train contempt unless we learn to think differently.
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