Author: Justin N. Poythress

  • Why You Can’t Let Yourself Feel Content

    June 6, 2024
    The faster you descend from your mountaintop of success into feelings of failure and self-loathing, the better. That means you’ll…
  • The Sanction of Sin

    May 30, 2024
    The power comes in her offhanded delivery. At their initial encounter, the subtext is uneasy, electric with forbidenness. But then…
  • You’ve Overcommitted–Now What?

    May 16, 2024
    There are plenty of mistakes you can quietly go about fixing yourself. But when your error involves a promise or…
  • What Happens When You Stop Getting Bored?

    May 2, 2024
    Try to remember—what used to happen when you got bored? What have we lost, exactly? The underlying catastrophe is the…
  • Cheap Thrills

    April 18, 2024
    Adultery is more like trying to get your summer tan in a single sunscreenless day at the beach.
  • Jesus is the Better Bitcoin

    April 11, 2024
    Questions of value lead us to constantly look for something bigger, better and more lasting.
  • Keep Your Eyes on the Road

    April 4, 2024
    An hour later, lost and mudstained, you wonder how you got there in the first place. You don’t remember ever…
  • Might Will Not Make Right

    March 21, 2024
    The violent man is like a dragon sleeping on his horde of treasure—never able to use it, and never happy…
  • Good People Get Good Things

    March 7, 2024
    Most of the time, living with integrity turns out pretty well. Usually, illegal arms dealers do not live long, blissful…
  • Politicians Are Not Jesus

    February 29, 2024
    I don’t know a single person who needs to be convinced about the importance of politics, or the perks of…